Health Facilitator Educator

Join a hospital where everyone makes a difference! Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a thriving community hospital that proudly provides acute care services including: Emergency Surgery Medicine Womens and Childrens Health Intensive Care Mental Health and Inpatient Rehabilitation.
Our vision is to creating healthier communities together . Our dedicated and skilled staff are passionate about providing outstanding patient-centred care and an exceptional patient experience to residents of the Waterloo Region and beyond.
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Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)
Group benefits including health and dental for full-time employees
Employee and Family Assistance Program
Leadership and Quality Improvement Curriculum
Wellness & Wellbeing Program
Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiatives

Reporting to the Manager of Professional Practice the Clinical Educator/Facilitator (CEF) Mental Health serves as a role model and leader to support care that optimizes patient outcomes and experiences while enhancing the safety efficiency effectiveness and accessibility of patient care by:

Assessing planning implementing and evaluating education for nursing and the inter-professional team
Serving as a clinical practice/education resource using sound clinical judgement(informed by clinical best practices)
Being change agents and roles models that advocate for and create learning/education environments (and opportunities) that enhance clinical and professional practice and life-long learning
Working with other clinical leaders to support the development of staff including participation in corporate education and other initiatives
The primary role of the Clinical Educator/Facilitator Mental Health is to facilitate a learning environment where evidence-based knowledge is translated via education to optimize the patients outcomes and experiences. This includes developing educational plans and activities aimed at improving clinical knowledge skills and competencies and in collaboration with others and supporting the ongoing professional development of unit/program staff.

The Clinical Educator/Facilitator has three main areas of responsibility.

Education and Nursing Practice:
Design and deliver education that is tailored to specific needs of individual/unit/program
Incorporates best evidence and relevant research findings into content and delivery methods
Incorporates best practices in education (e.g. principles of adult learning domains of learning)
Demonstrates professionalism including legal ethical and professional values as a basis for developing nursing standards guidelines policies procedures and decision making

Engages and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to identify and support educational clinical practice and corporate initiatives
Engages members of the intra- and inter-professional team management team and across hospital departments in planning developing implementing and evaluating educational clinical practice and corporate initiatives
Actively participates in the Clinical Educator/Facilitator team and works collaboratively with other CEF colleagues
Collaborates with the hospitals Inter-professional Education Coordinator to facilitate nursing student placements and adherence to learning management system requirements
Collaborates with Clinical Manager(s) in interviewing hiring and contributing to the evaluation of nursing health disciplines and clerical staff
Participates in hospital and corporate committees and other groups to represent the CEF perspective and serves as a bridge to the unit/program and Clinical Educator/Facilitator team by disseminating committee information and decisions

Quality Research and Leadership:
Supports and participates in the implementation of evidence-based practice (best practice guidelines and other forms of evidence) and quality improvement initiatives on unit/in programs including corporate initiatives
Leads supports and participates in programmatic and unit/clinic-based quality improvement initiatives
Develops implements and maintains policies medical directives and preprinted order sets to support best practices in mental health care.
Demonstrates the key skills behaviours abilities and knowledge required to make meaningful health system change integrate actions dedicated to patient family and community care and build healthy workplaces
Embodies the LEADS in a Caring Environment capabilities to develop and maintain initiatives and programmes that will shape the future of health profession education and clinical practice

Diploma in Nursing or Baccalaureate degree in Nursing
Masters degree in Nursing or related health field or willing to work towards
Certificate in Nursing Education for the Practice Setting preferred
Minimum of 5 years experience in Mental Health
Demonstrated commitment to the mission and values of Cambridge Memorial Hospital
Diploma or Baccalaureate degree in Nursing required
Minimum of 5 years experience in Mental Health
Experience caring for mental health patients from young adults to seniors.
Masters degree in Nursing is required
Recent formal education and experience in adult education within the past 2 years required
Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning related to surgical/rehabilitation nursing is required
Demonstrated advanced critical thinking process improvement/redesign and problem solving skills
Professional practice experience in program planning curriculum design learning technologies and facilitation skills within the past 2 years required
Computer literacy and proficiency in MS Office and Meditech required
A. members (full-time part-time and casual) are eligible to apply for this position.

As part of our commitment to the health and safety of our patients staff and community from COVID-19 subject to any accommodation required by applicable human rights legislation Cambridge Memorial Hospital requires that all staff have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada.

The successful external applicant is required to provide the applicable criminal record check as requested by Human Resources in accordance with federal and provincial legislation. Valid criminal record checks are in original format and dated with two months from date of conditional offer from CMH.

CMH Inclusion Statement

At Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) community matters to us. We acknowledge and are grateful for the opportunity to meet work and offer healthcare on what is the traditional territories for the Anishinaabe the Haudenosaunee and the Chinnonton.

We welcome all applicants and encourage members of equity-deserving groups including Indigenous and LGBTQ2SIA communities regardless of race gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression lifestyle age educational background national origin religion neurodiversity or physical ability. We promise to ask if needed and to provide reasonable accommodation to you during the recruitment and selection process to ensure an equitable experience.

To support all of us in this journey Cambridge Memorial Hospital is an employee partner with the Canadian Centre for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI) and provides access to all CMH members to CCDI resources and education. Mari Iromoto Executive Champion Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Susan Toth Director of Human Resources

Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) proudly integrates AI-based technologies into its applicant screening process to enhance recruitment. CMHs AI serves to assist not replace human decision-making with results audited to ensure quality and equity. This initiative reinforces the hospitals commitment to Equity Diversity and Inclusion ensuring the best talent is selected while adhering to its core values.
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