Diabetes Education Specialist III at Texas Children's Careers

Houston, Texas, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

13 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

15 Mar, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Diabetes Self-Management Education, Assessment, Goal Setting, Behavioral Intervention, Case Management, Guideline Development, Transitions of Care, Population Health, Patient Care Experience, ADCES 7 Self-Care Behaviors, Health Literacy, Electronic Medical Record

Industry

Hospitals and Health Care

Description

We are searching for a Diabetes Educator III. Someone who provides assessment, goal setting, education and behavioral intervention, and on-going case management to patients and caregivers to promote diabetes self-management in the inpatient and ambulatory settings. Contributes to the development of position papers, guideline development, or other literature to advance the specialty. Develops processes to improve transitions of care and ensure appropriate self-management education and resources. Creates innovative strategies to achieve the Quadruple Aim (population health, quality of patient care experience, costs associated with care, and meaningfulness of the provider's experience). Think you've got what it takes? Qualifications: * Associate's Degree Nursing, Bachelor's Degree, or Master's Degree in Nutrition, Public Health, Education, or Nursing * CDCES - Cert Diab Care and Educ Spec Certification Board of Diabetes Care and Education Or BC-ADM - Cert-BC Adv Diabetes Mgmt Certification Board of Diabetes Care and Education * 5 years Diabetes care as a licensed Dietitian or Nurse required Responsibilities: * Provides individualized diabetes self-management education and training to individuals and groups according to the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional performance for Diabetes Educators. * Uses the ADCES 7 Self-Care Behaviors® as a framework to teach, reinforce, and evaluate self-management skills. * Assesses person’s skills and knowledge level, education, health literacy/numeracy, culture, readiness to learn, preferred learning style and language, barriers to learning, financial barriers, confidence and skills with technology use, and support needs. * Records daily activities and patient related encounters using appropriate formats within the electronic medical record. Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women is a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility and one of a select few hospitals nationwide that provides women, mothers and babies with a full continuum of high-quality, expert health care. Offering a full spectrum of maternal and fetal medicine services, including an array of fetal diagnostic procedures and highly specialized fetal surgeries, the Pavilion for Women is connected to Texas Children’s Hospital via a two-story circular sky bridge to enhance patient care by providing physicians, staff and patient families with rapid access to other pediatric subspecialists. Three private OB/GYN practices, The Family Fertility Center, The Menopause Center and The Women’s Place – Center for Reproductive Psychiatry are all housed here. Additionally, we also recently opened a community-based OB/GYN practice in Pearland. 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.

Responsibilities

The specialist provides individualized diabetes self-management education and training to individuals and groups, using the ADCES 7 Self-Care Behaviors as a teaching framework. Responsibilities also include assessing patient knowledge, barriers, and recording daily activities in the electronic medical record.