Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Practice Education Specialist (CPES) to join our team at City of Hope. The CPES functions as a nurse educator and clinical expert. In addition, the CPES will function as a clinician, consultant, leader and researcher. As a CPES you will educate nurses and patient care services (PCS) constituents by assessing, conceptualizing, diagnosing and analyzing complex clinical and non-clinical issues related to the continuum of cancer care.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Model excellence in nursing practice using scientific knowledge and advanced concepts in the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of actual or potential problems in the oncology patient population.
• Promote patient care services that are efficient, safe, reliable, courteous and timely.
• Ensure staff competence appropriate to their role and function in population specific care.
• Proactively identify opportunities and investigates solutions to assure the provision of state-of-the-art nursing care and associated outcomes.
• Influence patient outcomes through the translation, implementation and integration of evidence-based practice (EBP) into daily operational and patient care activities.
• Collaborate and consult with nurses and others to influence nursing practices and improve care outcomes within a specific unit or service and/or across Nursing and Patient Care Services (NPCNS).

Basic education, experience and skills required for consideration:

• Master's Degree, or Doctorate Degree as Nurse Practitioner
• 3 years oncology experience or applicable experience in area of specialty

Required Certification/Licensure:

• Current California RN license
• California NP License
• California NP Furnishing License within 6 months of hire
• DEA within 6 months of hire
• National NP Board Certification through accrediting body