Clinical Administrative Coordinator

The Clinical Administrative Coordinator position plans, coordinates, facilitates, administers, and monitors, activities on behalf of the academic program director and in coordination with academic and clinical faculty. These activities ensure the quality of our students' learning experience during clinical education. Clinical Administrative Coordinators accomplish this through:

• Assist with coordination and implementation of the clinical education component of the curriculum including site placements, site visits, and evaluation
• Assist the program director in facilitating students' clinical education
• Assist the program director for ensuring clinical education program compliance
• Assists the program director in monitoring and refining the clinical education component of the curriculum through sound clinical administrative practices
• Assist the program director in facilitating quality learning experiences for students during clinical education.
• Selects clinical learning environments that demonstrate characteristics of an ethical and professional facility that incorporates the programs core values.
• Documents and assess clinical education sites and clinical educators to determine efficacy.
• Coordinates the ongoing development of the clinical facility database with maintenance of clinical agreements and other appropriate clinical information
• Ensure clinical agreements are current and that students are assigned only to those facilities in which there are properly executed and unexpired contracts.
• Communicates program curriculum, philosophy, objectives, evaluative criteria, policies, procedures, clinical dates, and other pertinent information to affiliating clinical facilities.
• Serves as a liaison between the students and clinical facility.
• Communicates and oversees communication with the Center Coordinators of Clinical Education, Clinical Instructors and students to monitor progress and assist the program director assessing students' performance.
• Provides guidance and support as required to problem solve and discuss students concerns.
• Meets with students prior to clinical affiliations to disseminate information on clinical policies and procedures, clinical site information, clinical education philosophy and objectives.
• Assist the program director in assessing students' performance during clinical education.
• Administers policies and procedures for immunization, preventative health practices, and for management of student injuries while at clinical site.
• Prepares clinical rotation assignment schedules.
• Complies with site requirements
• Ensures student physical and/or immunizations forms are current and in compliance
• Tracks and issues continuing education hours in conjunction in accordance to the state and local laws.
• Ensures liability protection of students (and faculty if required) inclusive of professional, governmental, institutional, and risk management principles.

Clinical Administrative Coordinator must have a Bachelor's degree.