CST Clinical Educator

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

• Develops and implements orientation and training programs for new surgical technicians.
• Mentors surgical technicians through orientation, training, role transition, career development, and continuing education.
• Utilizes principles of education and adult learning to create effective training programs.
• Integrates current published research and literature into all learning activities.
• Maintains knowledge of national and local trends in surgical technician practice.
• Monitors and reports compliance with required documentation for orientation and training.
• Evaluates orientation and training processes based on healthcare trends, learning needs, and organizational goals.
• Coaches new surgical technicians and collaborates with management on performance evaluation and growth plans.
• Facilitates and evaluates career development activities for surgical technicians.
• Acts as the main liaison with local Surgical Technology programs to foster and maintain academic partnerships.
• Facilitates student placement and ensures a positive student experience within the unit/department.
• Participates in recruitment and interviewing of staff.
• Actively participates, communicates, and serves as a positive change agent for all units'/departments', campuses' and system's initiatives/goals and leadership activities.
• Creates, plans, implements and coordinates activities related to systematic professional learning experiences, based on needs assessments, designed to augment the knowledge, skills and attitudes of assigned staff including continuing education, in-service education, continued competence based on unit/department needs, organization initiatives/goals and policy revisions.
• Monitors and reports compliance with required education.
• Acts as the main liaison with all local Surgical Technology programs to ensure academic partnerships are fostered and maintained.
• Facilitates a supportive environment for academic partnership by ensuring appropriate student placement and a positive student experience within the unit/department.
• Collects data on students’ clinical experience and likelihood to join the organization upon graduation.
• Works with hiring departments and HR to ensure students are interviewed and placed in a timely manner.
• Participates in practice changes as a result of performance improvement activities.
• Supports quality standards and initiatives set by the departments.
• Ensures that practice changes, as a result of performance improvement activities, are implemented.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Ability to act as a role model for professionalism. [Required]
• Effective oral and written communication skills; strong interpersonal skills, strong organizational skills [Required]
• Self-direction, creativity, initiative to develop educational programs. [Required]
• Leadership skills, initiative, organization, and self-direction. [Required]
• Strong clinical background with the ability to map clinical processes, gather and analyze data, effectively present ideas and views to clinical audiences. [Required]
• Strong skills related to aseptic/sterile technique and knowledge of surgical instrumentation. [Required]
• Ability to work well with people at all levels of the organization. [Required]
• Ability to coordinate multiple priorities and issues to facilitate appropriate customer support. [Required]
• Ability to work on complex projects independently. [Required]
• Conceptual and practical understanding of various training techniques for users with various learning styles [Required]
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs such as Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel [Preferred]
• Knowledge of healthcare regulatory bodies [Preferred]
• Ability to scrub independently in at least 3 major surgical specialties [Preferred]

• Bachelor's [Preferred]
• Master's [Preferred]

• in Surgical Technology or related military training program

• 9+ of scrub tech experience in a hospital setting [Required]
• Experience in current performance improvement frameworks and methodologies [Preferred]
• Experience in healthcare related education/ training [Preferred]

• N/A

• Basic Life Support - CPR Cert (BLS) [Required]
• State Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) [Required] OR NBSTSA Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) [Required] OR Technician in Surgery TS-C (NCCT) [Required]

Certain positions are subject to Florida Level 2 background screening, including fingerprinting, as required by state law.

Applicants may review general information about Florida’s background screening requirements at the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse:
https://info.flclearinghouse.com/

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances.