Clinical Education Director

The Clinical Education Director (CED) designs, implements, and evaluates hospital-wide educational programs to enhance clinical competencies, ensure regulatory compliance, and support high-quality patient care. Reporting directly to the CEO, this role serves as an objective, interdisciplinary asset across all clinical departments. The CED acts as the hospital’s subject matter expert and "Superuser" for the WellSky Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform and leads critical training initiatives, including CMS GG Section functional coding. The CED collaborates closely with the hospital executive team to align educational initiatives with quality metrics, clinical outcomes, and strategic goals.

Core Responsibilities

Leadership Collaboration & Partnership

• Executive Alignment (Reporting to the CEO): Provide regular updates on hospital-wide compliance, educational initiatives, and onboarding metrics. Escalate systematic documentation or competency risks that impact hospital performance.
• Nursing Excellence (Partnering with the Chief Nursing Officer): Jointly identify nursing competency gaps, design onboarding pathways for new nursing staff, and facilitate ongoing skills labs (e.g., wound care, bladder management, and emergency response).
• Interdisciplinary Alignment (Partnering with the Therapy Director): Coordinate joint education initiatives to ensure seamless integration between nursing and therapy workflows, specifically touching on mobility, positioning, and functional progression.
• Quality & Compliance (Partnering with the Quality Director): Analyze hospital performance metrics (such as fall rates, pressure injuries, and readmissions) to build corrective, data-driven educational interventions.

System & Regulatory Specialization

• WellSky EHR Superuser:
• Serve as the hospital's primary point of contact for WellSky troubleshooting, optimization, and system updates.
• Train all incoming clinical staff (nursing, therapy, physicians) on proper documentation workflows to ensure accuracy, compliance, and efficiency.
• Audit documentation practices within the system and build targeted re-education plans for users struggling with workflow adherence.
• CMS Section GG Code Training:
• Own the training and auditing program for Section GG functional abilities and goals (Self-Care and Mobility), which are critical for IRF-PAI reporting and Medicare reimbursement.
• Ensure the interdisciplinary team (nursing and therapy) maintains exact calibration on scoring definitions to prevent under- or over-scoring patient capabilities.
• Conduct routine audits of admission and discharge Section GG scores to ensure documentation fully supports the clinical reality of the patient.

General Clinical Education & Onboarding

• Manage the general orientation and onboarding framework for all newly hired clinical staff.
• Oversee annual competency assessments, CPR/BLS tracking, and mandatory regulatory compliance education (OSHA, Joint Commission, CMS).
• Lead the clinical student program, acting as the primary liaison for local universities and nursing/therapy programs.