Description: Education/Licensure/Certification:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
(usually 4 years) in education required; BSN preferred.
Qualifications: Bilingual (Spanish/English).
Certified Diabetic Educator required. Health Education
teaching experience. Previous experience in providing
and coordinating health education services. Previous
experience in curriculum and materials development.
Previous teaching experience required or previous
recent experience in in service education in clinical
service area (usually two to five years.) Adult learning
knowledge required. Demonstrated ability to utilize
interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
and group facilitator/process skills. Computer literacy
required. Current California RN license required.
Preferred Qualifications: Master's Degree
preferred. CPR instructor preferred.
Duties:
Provides direct group health education services
to members and the public. Reviews, develops recommends,
presents, high quality, culturally appropriate, written
and audiovisual health education. Consults with physicians
and staff regarding health education services. Specializes
in a specific area of health education (diabetes,
nutrition, chronic disease, health promotion) as
required. Conducts needs assessments, establishes
priorities, designs, implements, and evaluates basic
health education programs, protocols and standards.
Develops, coordinates and evaluates programs to meet
regulatory requirements and organizational, departmental
and discipline specific needs. Designs, develops,
and coordinates activities for continuing professional
education for staff. Collaborates with consultants
to develop special projects in professional education,
development and learning. Communicates and markets
education programs to a broad target audience using
appropriate methods, and based on identified/assessed
needs. Participates in classroom instruction on developed
projects. Makes recommendations for cost/quality
strategies, works within budget; serves as expert
resource to staff and departments in defining and
meeting educational, clinical, quality and cost outcomes
and performance measures. Develops, implements, monitors
and evaluates/improves the orientation, cross training
and education/competency processes/systems for clinical
staff. Responds to corporate and industry changes
in clinical practice and professional education and
provides necessary training, education and development
which improves organizational performance. Ensures
compliance and documentation of organizational records
based on regulatory agency standards. Consistently
supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility
(Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining
the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting
the assets of the organization, acting with ethics
and integrity, reporting non compliance, and adhering
to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations,
accreditation and licenser requirements (if applicable),
and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures.
