Senior Living Clinical Experience Required

About Discovery Senior Living

Discovery Senior Living is a family of companies that includes Discovery Management Group, Integral Senior Living, Provincial Senior Living, Morada Senior Living, TerraBella Senior Living, LakeHouse Senior Living, Arvum Senior Living, Discovery Development Group, Discovery Design Concepts, STAT Marketing, and Discovery At Home. With three decades of experience, the award-winning management team has been developing, building, marketing, and managing diverse senior-living communities across the United States. By leveraging its innovative “Experiential Living” philosophy across a growing portfolio in excess of 350 communities and over 35,000 homes in nearly 40 states, and 19,000 dedicated employees, Discovery Senior Living is a recognized industry leader for performance, innovation and lifestyle customization and, today, ranks among the 2 largest U.S. senior living operators.

Discovery Senior Living is looking for a National Director of Clinical Education and Development.  

This is a remote role.  Preferred candidate locations include but are not limited to: Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston or Nashville.

In this role you will Report to the Vice President of Learning and Development with matrix reporting to the Vice President of Resident Care, the National Director of Clinical Education and Development leads strategies, execution, administration, and evaluation of clinical and regulatory training and development programs for the enterprise's assisted living and skilled nursing facilities within the company's senior living communities. Using a variety of learning modalities, the incumbent is responsible for the management of the online learning system as well as identifying local, state, and federal regulatory requirements to ensure team members are familiar with the company's policies, programs procedures, and protocols to support quality care. The National Director of Clinical Education also leads development of oversight of clinical onboarding and development and sourcing of programs to support competency development, employee retention, engagement, and performance of clinical team members.

Responsibilities:

• Determines state and federal training program requirements.
• Develops and executes on learning plans for all care staff to ensure compliance leveraging learning management system.
• Identifies opportunities for learning and performance management to support quality care within the enterprise.
• Responsible for the leading orientation/onboarding and continuing in-service education programs for all care team members.
• Plans and leads the specified in-service education programs including content and curriculum development and sourcing for competency development.
• Partners with leaders within the learning organization to support development of nurse leaders across the company.
• Partners with leaders within the learning organization to develop custom learning content to support company specific programs, policies, and procedures.
• Ensures appropriate recordkeeping systems that will demonstrate compliance in all staff in-services.
• Supports development of plan of correction (POC) with training requirements.
• Develops and executes on learning programs that help differentiate the enterprise’s care environments.
• Will deliver virtual and in-person training programs leveraging proven learning development and delivery standards.
• Develops and reports on key training metrics and associated outcomes.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provides guidance and oversight across the enterprise to ensure training and development programs are meeting stated learning objectives and supporting key performance indicators in a matrix organization.
• Provides matrix leadership to community care leaders.
• Supervises Manager of Clinical Learning and Development.

Qualifications:

• Active RN license required.
• Master's degree required.
• Three or more years of geriatric clinical experience a must.
• Senior living or healthcare experience required.
• Three years' experience delivering learning plans and educational programs preferred.
• Five or more years leading a complex matrix, multi-state clinical learning and development program required.
• Three or more years of experience managing clinical learning management system a must.
• Available for occasional travel

Benefits:

In addition to a rewarding career and competitive salary, Discovery offers a comprehensive benefit package.  

Eligible team members are offered a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances, paid time off and paid holidays.   Team members are eligible to participate in our outstanding 401(k) plan with company match our Employee Assistance Program and accident insurance policies.

No agencies, please. We do not accept any unsolicited resumes from agencies under any circumstances. We receive inquiries from agencies daily. Agencies should not direct any inquiries or emails to hiring managers. Thank you.

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JOB CODE: 1004370