Sleep Educational Coordinator

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Location Aurora, Colorado
Full/Part Time Full-Time
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Job Overview

The Sleep Education Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the Sleep Tech Training Program at Children's Hospital Colorado. The coordinator supports the Sleep Techs and Sleep Tech Assistants in onboarding and training and incorporating evidence-based clinical teaching and learning strategies to provide a safe, population specific learning environment.

Additional Information

Department Name: Sleep Study, rotating between Anschutz, Uptown, South, and North Campuses
Job Status: Full-Time; Eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Thursday (Monday: 4 hour admin; Tuesday - Thursday: 12 hour overnight shifts)

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or GED
• Experience: Five (5) years of pediatric sleep experience.
• Certification(s): Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT), BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

Neonate - 30 days to 1yr

Toddlers - >1yr to 3yrs

Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs

School age - >5yrs to 13yrs

Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs

Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

Designs, coordinates, facilitates, onboarding and orientation programs for licensed and unlicensed team members.

Evaluates orientation and onboarding experiences for new team members in relation to them operating safely and independently.

Participates in organizing professional development opportunities and partners with Sleep Lab Leadership to mentor team members to advance in sleep tech career ladder.

Mentors, develops, and evaluates preceptors for them to train new hires.

Teaches and guides team members to advance the care of patients, families, and the profession of nursing.

Collaborates and establishers partnerships among departments and various disciplines. Identifies and mitigates deterrents to collaboration. Collaborates with extraprofessional and other stakeholders to align educational programs with organizational goals and strategic plans.

Acts as a resource to staff, department, and safety coaches related to patient safety issues

Coordinates quality improvement standards; regulatory standards; patient safety standards; error prevention tools, methodologies, technologies and resources.

Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of departmental, divisional and organizational goals to include research and the quality improvement or research process to improve patient outcomes.

Other Information

SCOPE & LEVEL

Guidelines:Advanced full performance professional level work that requires additional knowledge, education, training or experience. Guidelines are generally in the form of stated objectives only with issues and factors largely undefined requiring the employee to exercise creativity and ingenuity in devising criteria, techniques, strategy, and methodologies for approaching assigned functions or projects.

Complexity:Duties performed involve concepts, theories, and concrete factors to be evaluated and weighed requiring a high degree of analytical ability, independent judgment, and decision-making. Acts as a subject matter expert in the field of expertise.

Decision Making:Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.

Communications:Contacts with team members, clients or the public where some degree of discretion and judgment are required in carrying out a major program and/or function of the organization.

Supervision Received: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Work assignment is generally unstructured and employee is responsible for organizing complex, varied, and simultaneous coordination of several functions, programs, or projects in various stages of completion.

Physical Requirements

Ability to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good

Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good

General Activity: Stand/Walk: 4-6 hrs. per day

Motion: Bend: 1/3 or more of time

Motion: Carry: Up to 1/3 of time

Motion: Lift: Light lifting regularly, moderate lifting occasionally.

Motion: Pull: Up to 1/3 of time

Motion: Push: Up to 1/3 of time

Motion: Reach: Up to 1/3 of time

Motion: Squat/Crouch: Up to 1/3 of time

Others: Able to assist or assume direct patient care as census directly permits.

Others: Occupational Hazards - exposure to unsteady or falling patient: In the course of transferring a patient, may encounter a patient who falls or loses balance, causing employee to fall and/or bear the full weight of a patient

Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: 35 pounds/16 kilos.: Up to 1/3 of time

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Regular/Frequent.

Exposure: Exposure to heights: Occasional.

Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Frequent.

Exposure: Exposure to lung irritations: Occasional.

Exposure: Exposure to skin irritations: Frequent.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.

Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Salary Information

Annual Salary Range (Based on 40 hours worked per week): $72,340.07 to $108,510.10
Hourly Salary Range: $34.78 to $52.17

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.

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