Professional Development Specialist (Full-Time)
Starting Salary : $92,000 annually (and higher based on years of experience)
Join Us And Be Apart of The Samaritan Difference!
The Professional Development Specialist advances clinical excellence, workforce readiness, and community engagement through the design and delivery of high-quality education across Samaritan and its partners. The role leads clinical onboarding, competency assessment, and continuing education for the interdisciplinary team-hospice aides, LPNs, RNs, social workers, chaplains, advanced practice providers and physicians.
What You'll Do:
The specialist serves as the Primary Planner for accredited continuing education under Joint Accreditation standards, direct the Speakers Bureau, and delivers evidence-based education to long-term care, assisted living, and health partners. Through instructional design, coaching, and strategic collaboration, the Professional Development Specialist strengthens clinical practice and enhances patient outcomes across the healthcare continuum.
Key responsibilities include educational design & delivery, accredited continuing education leadership, instructional design, learning technology, Community education & outreach, professional development & leadership coaching, program evaluation, analytics, and reporting, and collaboration, and organizational development.
What You'll Bring:
Experience with clinical competencies, onboarding, and interprofessional education preferred
Samaritan is the leading not-for-profit, locally based provider of home-based primary care, palliative care, hospice care, grief support, social connections, education, and advocacy. Proudly serving the South Jersey community since 1980.
To learn more, please visit our website: samaritannj.org
Samaritan is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian, independent organization locally founded in Moorestown, New Jersey in 1980. Samaritan is the regional leader for hospice care, palliative (comfort) medicine, primary care at home, transitional support, grief support and counseling, end-of-life education, and advocacy.
Samaritan serves people in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, and Mercer counties who are coping with the stresses serious illness or grief in their homes, assisted-living, or nursing home communities and through two inpatient hospice centers: The Samaritan Center at Mt. Holly and The Samaritan Center at Voorhees. Thrift shop in Westmont supports Samaritan services and programs.
Samaritan is accredited by The Joint Commission; a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO); the Home Care & Hospice Association of New Jersey; and is a four-star-level hospice in NHPCO’s We Honor Veterans program, created in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
