Curriculum Developer

HOUSTON METHODIST EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS

• Provide personalized care and service by consistently demonstrating our I CARE values:
  • INTEGRITY: We are honest and ethical in all we say and do.
  • COMPASSION: We embrace the whole person including emotional ethical physical and spiritual needs.
  • ACCOUNTABILITY: We hold ourselves accountable for all our actions.
  • RESPECT: We treat every individual as a person of worth dignity and value.
  • EXCELLENCE: We strive to be the best at what we do and a model for others to emulate.

• Practices the Caring and Serving Model

• Delivers personalized service using HM Service Standards

• Provides for exceptional patient/customer experiences by following our Standards of Practice of always using Positive Language (AIDET Managing Up Key Words)

• Intentionally collaborates with other healthcare professionals involved in patients/customers or employees experiential journeys to ensure strong communication ease of access to information and a seamless experience

• Involves patients (customers) in shift/handoff reports by enabling their participation in their plan of care as applicable to the given job

• Actively supports the organizations vision fulfills the mission and abides by the I CARE values

• Collaborates with a team of project specialists content experts and administrators to design develop and deploy curricula.

• Meaningfully interacts with diverse professionals who provide content expertise and support for curricula design work.

• Coordinates the efforts of contributors to the curriculum while collaborating with content experts to align implementation science with project execution practices.

• Contributes towards improvement of department scores for employee engagement i.e. peer-to-peer accountability.

• Designs a project planning guide implementation protocol and collaborates with trainees faculty and staff to conduct scientific inquiry and apply evidence-based practices including the coordination of data collection data analysis and the dissemination of results with a focus on quality improvement and patient safety.

• Develops an infrastructure for training other personnel to support curricula design work. Maintains the highest standards of service for learners who come to the Office of Academic Development for training. Ensures the educational programs/offerings meet/exceed the customers expectations.

• Links training initiatives to quality and safety efforts both within and outside of the Methodist Hospital System.

• Assists in the design and delivery of seminars workshops and on-demand courses on various education-related topics.

• Proactively identifies quality and safety improvement opportunities aimed at cost reduction through analysis of data.

• Identifies funding opportunities and constructs grant proposals for educational activities and programs to support quality improvement and patient safety.

• Able to successfully compete for grant support for the work focused on improving quality and patient safety.

• Utilizes resources effectively and efficiently demonstrating responsible financial stewardship. Self-motivated to independently manage time effectively and prioritize daily tasks assisting coworkers as needed.

• Researches and evaluates new instructional strategies and materials. Utilizes innovative methods of performance measurement in the support provided for planning implementation and evaluation of quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

• Leverages the work done in across various departments around quality improvement and patient safety to build best practices and practice wisdom for efficient implementation and innovative approaches for future projects.

• Seeks opportunities to identify self-development needs and takes appropriate action. Ensures own career discussions occur with appropriate management. Completes and updates the My Development Plan on an on-going basis.

• Masters degree

• PhD preferred in an appropriate area for assessing human individual and team performance related fields could include education psychology industrial engineering public health quality improvement and patient safety human factors engineering and medical education

• Two years of experience in curriculum design and implementation

• One-year experience in planning implementing or evaluating quality improvement and patient safety initiatives

• N/A

• Demonstrates the skills and competencies necessary to safely perform the assigned job determined through on-going skills competency assessments and performance evaluations

• Sufficient proficiency in speaking reading and writing the English language necessary to perform the essential functions of this job especially with regard to activities impacting patient or employee safety or security

• Ability to effectively communicate with patients physicians family members and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles

• Expertise in assessing outcomes of training programs

• Proficiency with quantitative and qualitative data analysis (ability to use statistical software such as R SPSS SAS NVivo)

• Ability to read and interpret articles in scholarly/professional journals

• Ability to write reports and summary documents in a prescribed format

• Ability to effectively present and communicate information to top management public groups and/or boards of directors

• Ability to apply principles of logical and critical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems

• Knowledge of research project management

• Knowledge about best teaching skills curriculum development and learning theory

• Ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions

• Knowledge of patient safety and quality improvement measures

SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

WORK ATTIRE

• Uniform No
• Scrubs No
• Business professional Yes
• Other (department approved) No

ON-CALL*
*Note that employees may be required to be on-call during emergencies (ie. DIsaster Severe Weather Events etc) regardless of selection below.

• On Call* No

TRAVEL**
**Travel specifications may vary by department**

• May require travel within the Houston Metropolitan area Yes
• May require travel outside Houston Metropolitan area Yes

Houston Methodist Academic Institute (formerly the Houston Methodist Research Institute) was formed in 2004 to rapidly and efficiently translate discoveries made in the laboratory and the clinic into new diagnostics therapies and treatments. The research institute was created to provide the infrastructure and support for these endeavors and to house the technology and resources needed to make innovative breakthroughs in important areas of human disease. A 540000 square foot building dedicated to research and clinical trials the academic institute houses over 2047 credentialed researchers conducting 1470 ongoing clinical protocols.