PN Student Coordinator

PN Clinical Support Services

Full Time

Day Shift

8-430

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Job Summary

Responsible for coordinating student placements and ensuring the effective management of all students experiences in Lexington Medical Center's Physician Network. To include: job shadowing, clinical rotations, internships, and education activities as appropriate. Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with area technical schools, colleges, and health science programs.

Works closely with HR and practice managers to ensure compliance with all policies and procedures, and facilitates experiences appropriate to the educational level of the student, including appropriate placements with qualified preceptors.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Education, Healthcare, or related field

Minimum Years of Experience: 1 Year of related experience

Substitutable Education & Experience: None.

Required Certifications/Licensure: None.

Required Training: Clerical skills with emphasis in resource management;

Strong computer skills, scheduling, organizing, as well as analysis and evaluation techniques.

Essential Functions

• Identifies local and regional academic partnership opportunities to support Lexington Medical Center Physician Network workforce needs
• Acts as liaison between academic program representatives (school instructors, clinical coordinators, etc.) physician practices and LMC’s Human Resources department
• Collaborates with designated representatives from various departments, and physician practices to facilitate a standardized student coordination processes
• Communicates via email, phone and/or in person with practice managers and to develop student placements
• Coordinates with practice managers to determine the numbers of student placements avilable each semester, level, and type of experience needed.
• Identify facility requirements at each clinical placement location, such as orientation and EHR training, and communicates entry requirements to students in a timely manner. Keeps a record of these facility requirements, updating them as required
• Adapts creative solutions to maximize capacity and prioritize student placements according to workforce needs
• Ensures appropriate affiliation agreements are in place for all student experiences in accordance with Lexington Medical Center’s policy and procedures. Assists in the management of program affiliation agreements, reviewing regularly to maintain primary academic partnerships according to workforce demand
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Tracks student experiences and provides reports and information as requested by leadership
• Uses outcome measures and customer feedback to identify opportunities for improvement. Leads/coordinates/participates in the development and implementation of action plans and outcome measures to improve educational programs
• Develops reviews and analyzes feedback from student experience evaluations to identify opportunities for improvement
• Develops strategies to obtain feedback to aid in the recruitment and retention of students
• Ensures the continued growth and development of LMC’s partnerships with area health science schools and colleges through effective communication and information sharing.
• Develops brochures and website, in conjunction with marketing, advertising programs and student experience offerings
• Provides appropriate climate for learning and facilitates the adult learning process
• Performs all other duties as assigned
  
  

We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
• Adoption assistance
• LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.

Nearest Major Market: Columbia

Nearest Secondary Market: South Carolina