Nurse Educator

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Established since 1987, ECON Healthcare Group celebrates more than 35 years of commitment to quality healthcare and eldercare services this year. As a regional provider for integrated healthcare services in Singapore, Malaysia and China, the Group incorporates a chain of medicare centres and nursing homes, hospital services, a careskill training centre, a chain of senior services centres, home care services, physiotherapy services and traditional Chinese medicine services. The Group also provides consultancy for the development and management of retirement living communities.

DESIGNATION : Nurse Educator

RESPONSIBILITIES

**Training and Development**
- Plan, develop, implement and evaluate the nursing education and training programme.
- Conduct of training needs, analyse, plan, implement, co-ordinate, develop and evaluate overall training and competency development plans for all care staff.
- Develop the training framework based on the TNAs analysis and implement it accordingly.
- Develop and review training roadmap and training calendar periodically.
- Participate in the maintenance of professional and quality nursing training and development.
- Conduct follow up training evaluation:

- after each in-house training session
- with external course provider and then 3 months post-course evaluation. Submit data analysis to management and HR
- Participate in the design, implementation and evaluation of the training curricula as and when the need arise.
- Call and collate nominations if there is any course suitable for any care staff.
- Register with the approved learning institutes those approved nominations with the completed training sponsorship forms

**Clinical Supervision**
- Provide clinical supervision for all newly recruited care staff so as to ensure that they are competent in providing care to the residents.
- Conduct incidental teaching as and when the need arise.
- Provide follow up supervision for those care staff who has completed any training session including the induction programme.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to all care staff team to develop and improve their overall competency in providing quality nursing care.

**Training Policies**
- Develop new training policies and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Conduct roadshows to share the training policies and SOPs
- Review training policies and SOPs if there is any directive from the regulatory body on any change in the training guidelines.

**Collaboration**
- Work in collaboration with the respective Head, Senior/Centres Managers/Senior Staff In-Charge to ensure that quality and safe care are delivered to the residents.

**Other Administrative Roles**
- Maintain the training data base and report the outcome of the training hours captured for each care staff every quarterly.
- Assist Director, Nursing in the other training and development related matters.
- Any other tasks as delegated by Director, Nursing

**Requirements**:

- Minimum Post basic Certificate/Advanced Diploma in Nursing/ Bachelor Degree in Nursing
- Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) is an advantage
- Preferably with a Clinical Instructor certificate.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience working in the training and development developing short courses and conduct training.
- Proficient in MS Words, Excel, Powerpoint
- Proficient in Minutes writing
- Passionate and caring
- Able to work independently
- Pleasant and cheerful disposition with good communication and interpersonal skills.

QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum Post basic Certificate/Advanced Diploma in Nursing/ Bachelor Degree in Nursing
- Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) is an advantage
- Preferably with a Clinical Instructor certificate.