Clinical Coordinator, Physician Assistant Program
Chamberlain University
- Phoenix, AZ
- $37,761-68,341 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
If you're ready to live Chamberlain Care®, we invite you to apply today!Job DescriptionAt Chamberlain University, we believe if we take extraordinary care of our students, we will graduate extraordinary people who can have a significant and positive impact on healthcare around the world. This is the concept of Chamberlain Care™. A student's clinical experience is an extremely important piece of their education that helps build not only skills, but confidence in the clinical setting. The Physician Assistant Clinical Coordinator role supports our students with the utmost Chamberlain Care by coordinating all clinical experiences for Chamberlain's physician assistant program by assisting PA dean, program director, and Clinical Faculty in the management of PA supervised clinical practice experiences (SCPEs). The clinical coordinator will support the mission and philosophy of the College and represents the College to clinical agencies, students, and the community through clinical scheduling and business development efforts. Reporting to the PA Dean and Program Director, this individual must be a highly motivated team player who desires to share creative solutions, best practices and able to work in a matrix environment.Responsibilities
- Maintain relationships with preceptors, offices, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other clinical agency sites.
- Obtain signatures for renewing and/or terminating contracts between Chamberlain and clinical sites, based on alignment with clinical objectives.
- Develop and administer an effective program for placement of students in collaboration with the PA Clinical Faculty. Maintain effective communications with students regarding rotations, hospital privileges and clinical paperwork.
- Work with the National Clinical Coordination Office, Clinical Compliance, Marketing and IT to reach potential preceptors and effectively market clinical strengths of the PA program.
- Maintain complete knowledge and understanding of Chamberlain's curriculum and programs and be able to clearly explain to clinical partners.
- Participate in academic planning and scheduling for students by monitoring and assuring adequate clinical placement inventory.
- Monitor, gather, organize and present data gathered from preceptors, graduates and other sources to assist in the ongoing self-analysis of the program.
- Manage the clinical tracking software and monitor student data entry, logging and uploads. Create reports of this data for Clinical Faculty and program director.
- Assist the Clinical Faculty in the orientation of students to clinical rotations, policies, clinical sites, what to expect, arrangement of clinical callback days, EOR examination proctoring and monitoring of Clinical Portfolio progress.
- Gather material and data for Clinical Coordination Committee. Take minutes and supply updates as needed.
- Complete work in a timely manner, including preparing, documenting, and tracking clinical assignments.
- Coordinate with Clinical Faculty to ensure students and faculty are compliant with and are prevented from entering clinical agency sites if they are not.
- Serve as role model for faculty, staff and students in the areas of customer service, collaboration, communication, excellence, attendance and general professionalism.
- Use relationship skills in situations requiring group problem solving, consensus building and win-win negotiation.
- Adhere to all company policies and procedures and complete other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
- Candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter who can be a team player with the desire to share creative solutions and best practices.
- Candidate must exhibit strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills; excellent organizational skills and the ability to balance multiple tasks simultaneously. Attention to detail and mental concentration are necessary for accurately performing tasks with the ability to tolerate frequent interruptions.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to make presentations to healthcare leaders and educators and comfortable developing relationships via phone and in person.
- Inside sales and/or sales support skills helpful-- ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of successful demonstration of business development and/or sales competencies.
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
- Participation in Adtalem's Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
- 12 Paid Holidays