Nurse Trainer (PCN 1520)

The Nurse Trainer will participate in the design, implementation, and evaluation of training curricula provided to direct support professionals and others working in behavioral health settings in Oakland and Macomb counties.  Outcomes include the training of staff to improve the delivery of high quality, comprehensive, safe, individualized person/family-centered care. The Nurse Trainer will show a knowledge base that includes using a variety of adult teaching strategies, assessment, and evaluation methods.   

Essential Functions 

• With the training team, develop health-related courses for implementation within the network.
• Provide education, training, and employee development classes related to healthy lifestyles, health care and nursing.
• Ensure competency in Medications Administration, Basic Health, and other courses for direct support professionals working within our network.
• Ensure curricula content meets various licensing and state guidelines for direct support professionals.
• Ensure competency assessments, comprised of individualized appointments to evaluate return demonstrations for Basic Health and Medication Administration for each participant who successfully completes those trainings.
• Provide consultation as needed/requested to providers regarding their conformance to health and medication training standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements and Qualifications 

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing, BSN, from an accredited college/university.

Training Requirements (licenses, programs, or certificates): 

• An active unrestricted Michigan registered nurse (R.N.) license.
• At least 2 years of nursing experience as a registered nurse within the last 5 years immediately preceding the application, including teaching in a health care-related field or a job that requires common direct practice nursing competencies.
• At least 1 year (1,600 hours total) of which must be in the provision of long-term care facility services. A long-term care facility is a state licensed nursing home, hospital long-term care unit, specialized residential home, county care facility, homes for the aged, assisted living facility, hospice, or other like provider type.
• Must have completed a course in teaching adults or have experience in teaching adults.

Experience Requirements: 

• Experience in staff development and/or training and an understanding of psychiatric diagnoses, the behavioral health service system, medication administration/processes, integrated healthcare and service needs required.
• Experience with mental health/dual diagnosis, intellectual / developmental disabilities, community mental health experience preferred.

Preferred Experience: 

• N/A

Job Specific Competencies/Skills: 

• Ability to teach basic medical tasks to a continuum of learners including temperatures, blood pressures, medication administration (based on MD orders) and documentation, side effect monitoring, blood sugar monitoring, and others. 

Knowledge Requirements: 

• N/A

Oakland Community Health Network’s Core Competencies: 

• Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization; demonstrating loyalty to the organization and its mission and values; maintaining social, ethical, and organizational norms; firmly adhering to codes of conduct and ethical principles. (Integrity/Building Trust)
• Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; developing and sustaining productive customer relationships, recognizing that the ultimate customer is the person served. (Customer Focus)
• Actively identifying new areas for learning; regularly creating and taking advantage of learning opportunities; using newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learning through their application. (Continuous Learning) 
• Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence in addition to consciously adopting organizational standards of excellence. (Work Standards)
• Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. (Communication)

Additional Information 

(Travel required, physical requirements, etc.):  

• Must have available means of transportation to and from OCHN and for required offsite meetings or site visits.
• Must be available for meetings and events which may occur outside of standard office hours.
• Work performed primarily in an office environment.
• This position is approximately 80% office based and 20% remote/home office.
• Hybrid (onsite/remote) work schedule available, generally up to 1 day/week, following completion of their orientation period (90 days).
• The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

OCHN is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive and equitable culture. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that embraces and encourages our employees’ differences. This includes (but is not limited to) ability, age, color, family type, gender expression and identity, individual expression, medical conditions, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, and all other diverse and wonderful characteristics.