Education Coordinator, Inpatient - Acute Care

About the job

At our company, our mission starts with our people. Guided by our HEART values of Humility, Excellence, Accountability, Respect, and Trust, we strive to create a workplace where teammates feel valued, supported, and empowered to do their best work every day. As Education Coordinator - Inpatient, you’ll provide education and administrative support that helps ensure effective, efficient unit operations and high-quality patient care. You’ll coordinate orientation, training, competency development, preceptor support, and clinical education activities while continuing to provide direct patient care.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, evaluates, and updates cost-effective, unit-based orientation pathways for each role
• Individualizes orientation plans to address staff learning needs and coordinates orientation and preceptor schedules
• Monitors orientee progress, reviews progress with orientees and leaders, and identifies opportunities to improve the orientation process
• Teaches, facilitates, or develops staff to participate in centralized courses and educational planning activities
• Identifies knowledge and skill gaps using policies, performance-improvement data, regulatory requirements, and accreditation standards
• Develops, implements, evaluates, and reports outcomes of required unit-specific training to address identified performance gaps
• Tracks and reports compliance with unit-based and organization-wide required training
• Assesses staff development needs and designs interactive, cost-effective learning activities for all shifts
• Provides individualized performance feedback and communicates competency, high-risk skill, and patient-safety concerns to leadership
• Collaborates with practice council members and leaders to develop, implement, and monitor plans that address clinical development needs
• Assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, evaluates, educates, and documents individualized, developmentally appropriate patient and family care
• Develops, implements, and sustains processes for preceptor orientation, development, coaching, support, and competency documentation
• Coordinates annual assessment and validation of unit-based and organization-wide high-risk skills
• Coordinates unit-based clinical experiences and orientations for students and faculty
• Participates in quality-outcomes and unit-based improvement initiatives and integrates improvement findings into educational offerings
• Adjusts schedules to support new-employee orientation, assumes on-call responsibilities as needed, and participates in hiring and selection activities
• Communicates unit, departmental, and organizational information as delegated by leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required
• Registered Nurse license issued by the Texas Board of Nursing or through the Nursing Licensure Compact required
• Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association required
• Two years of clinical nursing experience required
• One year of preceptor or educator experience preferred

About Us

Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands is north Houston’s first true, free-standing pediatric hospital designed, equipped and staffed exclusively to provide care in more than 25 areas of specialty care for children and adolescents. Hospital facilities include 24 emergency center rooms, outpatient exam rooms, radiology rooms, operating rooms and acute care beds, as well as a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

To join our community of 15,000+ dedicated team members, visit texaschildrenspeople.org for career opportunities.

Texas Children’s is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants and employees are considered and evaluated for positions at Texas Children's without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 428514
• Job Category: Registered Nurse
• Posting Date: 2026-11-05
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: 17600 Interstate 45 S, Conroe, TX, 77384, US