Behavioral Health Educator (8a-430p) Behavioral Health Service Line- Johnson City, TN

Job Description:
Summary:

The Behavioral Health Educator role applies trauma-informed care principles and evidence-based treatment strategies to design and deliver innovative educational programs. The educator has specialized skills in curriculum development and is responsible for the planning, implementation, facilitation, and evaluation of programs that reflect innovative educational principles. The educator is experienced in translating state and institutional guidelines into actionable teaching seminars specific to behavioral health.

The Behavioral Health Educator role is expected to provide the support, guidance and mentoring needed to enable other clinical educators and frontline team members to practice competently within established standards, policies and procedures that are required to meet department, facility and system goals. The individual must demonstrate a superior knowledge of behavioral health expertise on policy and procedure and management of workplace violence prevention education and serve as a role model for standards of practice and care of the patient experiencing a behavioral health concern. Understanding and use of the Iowa model for evidence research when working with the behavioral health team in the development of new strategies, training and patient care is required.

Working hours occasionally require flexibility in scheduling to accommodate the educational needs of team members working all shifts and required rounding and supervision of those training on workplace violence prevention (currently known as Handle with Care). Travel within the Ballad Health System and other locations for educational events will be a requirement of this role.

The Behavioral Health Educator roles and responsibilities include:

Exhibits strong interpersonal skills and professional communication competency.

Integrates exceptional teaching and presentation skills required to promote growth and advance clinical practice/theories for both large and small audiences.

Designs and implements evidence-based teaching strategies tailored to learner needs.

Demonstrates knowledge of curriculum development including program outcomes, developing competency statements, writing learning objectives, and selecting appropriate learning activities and evaluation strategies with the use of Blooms taxonomy.

Conducts ongoing training needs analysis and develops appropriate interventions to address educational gaps identified with key stakeholders within behavioral health and organizational development leaders.

Collaborates with system and facility level leadership teams to determine strategic direction of educational plans to address behavioral health development needs and adapt their curriculum and teaching methods to respond to a constantly evolving healthcare system.

Leverages subject matter experts from within facilities, system-level resources, and external presenters when necessary to meet the educational requirements of team members across a variety of disciplines and job categories.

Incorporates and engages learners with effective use of appropriate information technologies in the teaching and learning process.

Maintains required documentation that reflects educational activity completions for clinical team members to accommodate regulatory requirements.

The Behavioral Health Educator functions as a change agent and leader pursuing ongoing quality improvement. Collaborates and supervises the use of system identified workplace violence prevention program trainers, deployment of training, participation with facility and system level workplace violence committees as deemed appropriate.

Serves as a supporting role to audits and evaluations of behavioral health facility level BERTs, restraints and codes related to violent actions of patients. Monitors and supports the restraint committee chair for behavioral health facilities/units to identify areas for educational opportunities and ongoing change.

Requirements:

Master's degree in education, psychology or related field.

3 years’ experience within psychiatric hospital setting.

Licenses and Certifications:

Certification and Trainer in Handle with Care (or determined workplace violence training by Ballad)

Certification and Trainer of Suicide prevention (QPR, mental health first aid or relevant training)

BLS trained

Additional certifications specific to behavioral health will be considered

Work Requirements:
Shift: Day
On Call: No
Weekends: No
Travel Required: No Travel
Shift Details: 8-430
City/State: Johnson City, TN

Location:
Ballad Health Corporate