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Job Title:Diabetes Educator

Department:80840-Diabetes Education

Location:Farmington

FTE%:1

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Search #:2024-701

Closing Date:05/24/2024

Recruiter:LeGault, Cynthia A.

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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a Diabetes Educator to the UConn Medical Group. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you. This is a full-time position and is located at the Outpatient Pavilion in Farmington, CT.

At UConn Health, this classification provides self-management education and training aimed at facilitating people with and at risk for diabetes related conditions to achieve behavior change goals that lead to better clinical outcomes.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Works under limited supervision of a Diabetes Education Coordinator and collaboratively with Primary Care Physicians, Nurse Practitioners and Endocrinologists.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

Collects Diabetes self-management education/training program participant assessment data, in a collaborative and outgoing manner.

Provides educational intervention.

Collaboratively develops educational goals, learning objectives and a plan for educational content and teaching methods with participants.

Develops an individualized follow up plan for each patient.

Educates patients on multiple basic and advanced technology to optimize blood glucose control, including blood glucose meters, continuous glucose sensors and insulin pumps.

Documents assessment data on plans.

Evaluates effectiveness of educational services.

Conducts follow up assessments.

Utilizes a team approach to provide services and communicates with team members as needed.

Serves as a clinical diabetes resource to departments, colleagues, fellows, residents outside

agencies and organizations regarding diabetes management.

Provides consultative services to departments to assist with treatment/management of patients affected by diabetes.

Provides group classroom instruction for patients and their families.

Participates in the development of training materials.

Contributes to, and participates in, a continuous quality improvement process to measure, identify and address opportunities for improvement.

Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

Considerable knowledge of current diabetes treatment, technology and management.

Considerable interpersonal skills.

Intermediate computer skills.

Considerable teaching skills.

Ability to lead and effectively manage groups.

Ability to develop a collaborative, therapeutic alliance with individuals.

Ability to communicate effective (oral and written) with patients and health care teams.

Ability to be culturally sensitive in response to patients' needs.

Ability to think creatively.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public and health care teams.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

Registered Nurse with at least three (3) years of nursing, or other certified/eligible healthcare professional with at least three (3) years of related healthcare practice experience.

One (1) year recent experience providing diabetes self-management education.

Substitutions Allowed:

Master's degree may be substituted for one (1) year of the related professional experience.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Candidates MUST be a Registered Nurse with at least 3 years of nursing experience.

Must possess and maintain during employment certification as a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) and/or Board Certified in Advanced Diabetes Management (BC-ADM) or if eligible for certification at time of hire, must become certified within one (1) year of employment in the position.

Must possess and maintain during employment a State of Connecticut licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) or licensure in the related healthcare profession as required.

Must possess and maintain American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers.

Other CPR/AED credentials may be accepted at hire but incumbents will be required to obtain American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within six (6) months of hire and maintain through employment.

May require travel to satellite offices.

SCHEDULE: 40-hour work week. Primarily Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a 60-minute unpaid meal break.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.

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