Education and Outreach Coordinator

Job Description

Responsibilities

•    To establish and engage in partnerships with community based, public and private sector entities to deliver clinical program prevention and continuing professional education as applicable.
•    To use current clinical knowledge of assigned clinical program care to develop and coordinate burn education (including materials) for pre-hospital, hospital, industry, educational institutions, members of the community and any other interested institutions or agencies
•    To provide continued contact with these institutions and groups to ensure access, information, and ongoing education. Educational offerings must be designed to meet the specific needs of the requesting agency / group.
•    To coordinate the scheduling of the clinical programs outreach education presentations/activities.
•    Delivers clinical program education sessions to outreach partners throughout the emirate and beyond where required.
•    Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team and community partners for the development and implementation of clinical program awareness and prevention programs.
•    Develops educational clinical program materials for dissemination to requesting groups.
•    To act as a liaison between referring hospitals and the clinical program center to enhance patient transfers. Maintains ongoing relationship with referrers to provide follow-up with opportunities for improvement.
•    To coordinate and instruct on the clinical programs verification required training/certifications (eg Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), Advance Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and other trauma education related training) for pre-hospital and healthcare professionals.
•    To assist in the analysis of referral/admission data to advocate for optimal clinical program service provision (ie following DoH/National Referral Criteria/Pathways for severity of clinical service required)
•    Develops core content and manages deliverables for applicable disaster emergency education.
•    To liaise with integration therapists and develops and implements clinical program survivor social support programming (eg school re-integration).
•    To develops, perform and present research as it relates to the outreach activities.
•    To record, reflect on and contribute to continuous performance improvement as it relates to outreach activities. To attend the clinical programs quality/performance committee meetings and follow their processes for quality/performance improvement activities. 
•    Responsible for the accuracy and integrity of the assigned clinical center’s internet presence alongside the marketing department.
•    To travel throughout the emirate and on occasion outside of the emirate for regional or national events where the assigned clinical center has a significant role in outreach education.
•    Performs other special projects and duties as assigned.
Accountabilities :
•    Maintain evidence of at least two prevention efforts annually with descriptions of the process used for creating interventions designed to reduce incidence/prevalence associated with the clinical program in the community.
•    Maintain evidence of assessment of impact of prevention activity efforts
•    Maintain evidence of at least two regional educational activities delivered in the last year.
•    Maintain evidence of at least two verification required training/certifications provided by the trauma center annually (including attendance)
•    Maintain evidence of at least two community outreach programs the clinical program center staff have provided in the last year.
•    Evidence of participation in the institutional (and wider as applicable) mass casualty /disaster committee (or equivalent) planning and education. Maintains records of training/drills engaged in by anyone on the clinical program team.
•    Evidence of participation in research as it relates to the outreach activities and at least one oral/ poster based presentation or publication based on the research or quality/performance improvement activity annually. 
•    Evidence of facilitation of peer-to-peer support for clinical program patients and their families?
•    Evidence of how the clinical program supports community reintegration. 
•    Evidence of attendance and participation in the clinical programs quality/performance improvement plan/process. 

Role-specific Job Responsibilities 
•    Responsible for the Trauma Program Education and Outreach Activity

 

Qualifications

Educational Qualification:  
Required: 
•    Bachelor degree in health related field
Desired: 
•    Post-graduate qualifications in education 
 

Specialist Certifications:
Required: 
•    As below
•    Desired:  
•    Current clinical programs verification required training/certifications preferred, with requirement to achieve in first 18 months (eg TNCC, NTOP, BLS, ACLS, PALS/ENPC)
•    Project management 

Required Experience:
•    Required: 
•    Minimum of 5 years clinical experience in related clinical program 
•    Desired : 
•    Experience as an educator
•    Experience in developing, implementing and evaluating projects