Instructional Designer (Hybrid) job

The Instructional Designer is responsible for the Epic curriculum architecture – supporting all elements of the planning, design, development and implementation of training for their designated application(s). Detailed responsibilities include creating and maintaining course curricula, developing real-life practice scenarios, exercises and related supporting materials as well as building, testing and maintaining the training environment. The Instructional Designer is also responsible for educating, credentialing, mentoring and supporting the Credentialed Trainers, as well as delivering education to end users and implementing procedures and tools to measure success of the training program.

The Instructional Designer will collaborate with organizational leaders, application analysts and clinical educators to ensure that the correct workflows are reflected in the system, and that end users understand and can make use of the full functionality of the application.

The Instructional Designer will master both the Epic application and Virtua’s specific workflows to understand decisions that will effect end-user training development and application build, and to also understand the extent of training requirements for system updates and upgrades.

Position Responsibilities:
Develop educationally sound training content by understanding and interpreting clinical and non-clinical workflows, processes and terminology.
Create and update instructor-led presentations and lessons plans
Craft realistic and accurate practice exercises
Develop and update pre-requisite eLearnings
Construct and update proficiency assessments
Establish and update supporting materials, Learning Home Dashboards, tip sheet and guides
Publish and maintain curriculum on Virtua Learning System

Assist Training Manager with training strategy for designated application(s).

Participate in the development of training policies and requirements for designated application.
Build, test and maintain the Training Environment to ensure that production changes are included, and scenarios updated.
Educate, mentor and monitor Credentialed Trainers
System and workflow knowledge
Education delivery for new employees, and updates and changes to education to all users
Customer support
Auditing records and re-educating, as needed

Maintains application proficiency to provide effective customer support
Conducts training classes and leverages e-learning tools for appropriate use cases
Assists with application build as required

Applies working knowledge of workflow, application software architecture and associated building tools to properly build the application training components based on detailed design specifications.

Position Qualifications Required : Required Experience:
1-3 years prior training experience in roles such as application trainer, clinical preceptor or clinical instructor.
Knowledge of adult learning principles as well as operational workflows and/or technical experience in assigned application preferred.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio, Outlook and Project
Experience using multi-media tools for development and delivery of e-learning preferred.

Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in nursing, allied health, education, business or information technology required. Combination of relevant education and experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Training / Certification / Licensure:
For Epic applications, applicable Epic certification(s) for application(s) supported must be achieved within 90 days of employment in this role.
Completion of Training Environment build education prior to building or facilitating updates to the training environment.