Clin Practice Education Spec

City of Hope

Irvine, CA

ID: 7279128 (Ref.No. 10027737)
Posted: 2 months ago
Salary / Pay Rate: $64.28 - $102.85 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

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).

Your qualifications should include:

  • Master's in Nursing
  • 3 years oncology experience or applicable experience in area of specialty
  • Current California RN license

Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $64.28 - $102.85 / hour

The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.



City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.