Northcentral Technical College Hiring For Clinical Coordinator at Wausau, WI  Full Time

The Clinical Coordinator serves as the primary liaison between the College and all clinical agencies. The Clinical Coordinator is expected to be a decisive leader with superb time management and organizational skills. This position will provide leadership and direction by making decisions and solving complex problems which impact staff and students. Excellent communication and verbal skills are required as the Clinical Coordinator is in daily communication with students, staff, and clinical partners in our community. This individual should be able to work comfortably under pressure while multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment and can effectively react to emergency situations and last-minute changes. Additionally, the Clinical Coordinator ensures student and faculty compliance with all regulatory and clinical site-specific requirements. The Clinical Coordinator is expected build effective working relationships through meaningful collaboration and respectful communication to ensure operational needs are achieved.

• Facilitate 500+ School of Health Science student placement in affiliated clinical agencies each semester. Collaborate with Program Directors, Faculty, and clinical agency to manage placement activities. Evaluates implications and communicates changes with faculty to ensure optimal clinical placement.
• Maintain student and faculty required documentation for the College and each clinical agency. Follow up with students and faculty to ensure compliance of the required documentation.
• Manage student and faculty onboarding and training for each clinical agency. Maintains clinical agency competency and communicates changes, policy updates, etc. to students and staff to ensure division is aware of expectations at all clinical agencies.
• Develop program relationships with all College clinical agency stakeholders. Maintain regular meetings/touchpoints with the key contact at the site with the goal of developing a healthy working relationship but also ensuring progress toward recruitment and retention goals.
• Facilitate New Clinical Experiences for health students in collaboration with Program Directors.
• Act as a resource in the interpretation of policies, facilitating problem solving in relation to clinical placements, answering questions related to clinical agency issues, troubleshooting concerns, and organizing and prioritizing workload.
• Participate in clinical agency meetings and perform site visits throughout the NTC district with industry partners and regional campus locations. Represent NTC and consult with appropriate individuals to address concerns, communicate updates, and provides input into improvement of services. Advocates for the achievement of goals and objectives of success of students.
  • Clinical agency locations are throughout the NTC district, and include hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and community facilities. Adherence to clinical agency PPE and screening protocols is required.
• Manage Preceptorship clinical models, training, and experiences. Responsible for reviewing all clinical requirements with input from the different School of Health Programs. Ensures compliance with established process and identifies requests that are outside of these for discussion.
• Manage all clinical agency contracts and affiliations. Review and consult with Dean/Associate Dean of Health Sciences and NTC legal counsel to ensure contract compliance. Develop new contracts for new clinical experiences. Review all contracts annually and update facility changes.
• Participate and present at all health advisory board meetings. Fully understand the accreditation standards and guidelines to properly serve as an extension of team at meetings, trainings, clinical agencies, etc. Ensure compliance with program requirements, state board agencies, and accreditation.
• Assist clinical agencies as necessary in relation to an agency’s accreditation and compliance. Provide record keeping documents to clinical agencies. Knowledgeable in College and clinical agency requirements to support and collaborate with sites audits.
• Participate in health program team meetings on student placement and progression. Work directly and collaboratively with Program Directors and the Learning Coordinator. Make decisions on issues regarding appropriate and effective placements to improve access.
• Conducts informational presentations to students, staff, faculty, and clinical agencies. Responsible for dissemination of information from meetings with clinic management to the College.
• Collaborate with the School of Health Sciences Learning Coordinator in management of all health documents and scheduling needs. Cross-train with the Learning Coordinator to provide cross functional team coverage.
• Other duties as assigned.

1. Bachelor’s degree in a Health field, Business Administration, or other closely related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and leadership.
2. Minimum of three (3) years of related experience in a similar position or activities which includes:

• Knowledge and experience in healthcare and college setting.
• Demonstrate leadership, customer service, organizational, communicational, problem solving and critical thinking skills in a learner center environment.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize assignments and manage complexity under deadlines.
• Ability to make independent decisions and exercise sound judgment in a variety of settings, situations, and areas.
• Ability to work in an environment that has multiple calendar due dates and achieve goals to meet internal and external customer needs. Flexible scheduling is a must.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Extensive experience with managing a large amount of data with software or programs.
• Operational knowledge of Software Packages such as Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) and aptitude for learning new software, such as Outlook, Teams, Castlebranch, SharePoint, PeopleSoft, Tableau, etc.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of employees under supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level or difficulty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 

Physical Demands:
6-8 hours: grasping, performing repetitive movements, working indoors
4-5 hours: sitting
1-3 hours: balancing, bending, reaching, standing, twisting, walking
Less than 1 hour: climbing, crawling, driving, kneeling, pulling, pushing, working at heights, working in temperature extremes, working outdoors

Lifting and Carrying:
Less than 10 pounds: 10-15 repetitions per hour
10-20 pounds: 1-10 repetitions per hour
20-50 pounds: less than one repetition per hour
50-100 pounds: less than one repetition per hour
More than 100 pounds with help: less than one repetition per hour

Additional Physical Requirements:
Vision: Adequate with aid to read instructions, labels, documents, computer screens, and differentiate between colors.
Hearing: Adequate with aid to understand oral requests, telephone conversation, and PA systems.

Required Employee Program and Safety Training:
Emergency Action Plan, Emergency Procedures, Ergonomics (Office/Workplace), Slips, Trips and Falls, AED/CRP (optional), Fire Extinguishers (optional).