Education Coordinator - Inpatient

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
• Minimum two years of Operating Room RN experience required
• Previous preceptor, clinical educator, or staff-development experience preferred
• CNOR certification preferred
• Knowledge of perioperative standards, evidence-based practice, regulatory requirements, and surgical patient-safety practices preferred

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 428767
• Job Category: Registered Nurse
• Posting Date: 2026-11-14
• Job Schedule: Part time
• Locations: 6651 Main St, Houston, TX, 77030, US ()