Nurse Educator

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Established since 1987, ECON Healthcare Group celebrates more than 30 years of commitment to quality healthcare and eldercare services this year. As a regional provider for integrated healthcare servcies 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, ambulance 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

The jobholder is responsible in providing strategic direction for training and development including planning, implementing and driving nursing education and training initiatives for all care staff so as to build their clinical competencies which will enable them to render high quality care. In addition, he/she will provide clinical supervision and guidance of these care staff at their respective centres.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 2 years’ experience working in the training and development developing short courses and conduct training.
- Recognised Post basic Certificate/Advanced Diploma in Nursing or Bachelor Degree in Nursing
- Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) is an advantage
- Preferably with a Clinical Instructor certificate.
- Passionate and caring
- Able to work independently
- Pleasant and cheerful disposition with good communication and interpersonal skills

QUALIFICATIONS
- Recognised Post basic Certificate/Advanced Diploma in Nursing or Bachelor Degree in Nursing
- Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (PGDHE) is an advantage