Workforce Safety Educator

Job Description

Educates frontline team members in safe patient handling techniques to decrease workplace injuries related to patient handling. Reviews and records related incidents and collects mobility metrics. Maintains patient handling equipment and associated soft goods for each patient care unit.

Job Responsibility

• Provides education and competency certification, and serve as a clinical resource for frontline patient care providers in safe patient handling techniques, and use of patient handling equipment and mobility aides for new hires and staff.
• Provides remedial training and competency for employees returning to work from injuries related to patient handling and demonstrates mobility techniques and procedures.
• Serves as a clinical resource and collaborate with frontline staff in mobilizing patients with special mobility needs and performs safe patient handling activities by utilizing approved safe patient handling equipment.
• Performs incident reviews and after-action reports for patient handling related injury reports.
• Monitors and collects mobility metrics to ensure safe patient handling procedures are followed.
• Provides corrective one-on-one mentoring, when needed.
• Attends and reports to Safe Patient Handling Mobility and Ergonomics Committee.
• Maintains supply, security, repair and inventory of patient lifting equipment and mobility aides.
• Management, and Equipment manufacturers/vendors.
• Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.
• Rehab services experience.
• In-patient care experience.

*Additional Salary Detail
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).