Accelerate Clinical Facilitator - Per Diem – Behavioral Health

Accelerate Clinical Facilitator - Per Diem – Behavioral Health

Position Overview:

The Accelerate Clinical Facilitator (Per Diem) – Behavioral Health is responsible for delivering simulation-based educational programs that improve the readiness, confidence, and clinical performance of healthcare teams caring for patients experiencing behavioral health emergencies. Serving as both a clinical expert and educator, this role facilitates immersive learning experiences focused on enhancing crisis response, therapeutic communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and patient outcomes.

This is an on-demand, per diem position supporting customer engagements as business needs arise. Assignments may include onsite simulation programs, implementation support, educational consultations, and clinical training events throughout the United States and Canada.

About Accelerate
Accelerate is a comprehensive simulation-based readiness and workforce development program designed to improve clinical competency, team communication, and patient outcomes across healthcare organizations. Unlike traditional continuing education programs, Accelerate combines immersive simulation, facilitated debriefing, competency assessment, and actionable performance insights to help healthcare organizations prepare for high-risk, low-frequency clinical events.

Accelerate facilitators serve as trusted clinical consultants, partnering with healthcare leaders to build sustainable cultures of safety, readiness, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

Simulation Facilitation & Educational Delivery

• Facilitate simulation-based learning experiences focused on behavioral health emergencies and psychiatric crisis response.
• Lead structured debriefings that promote reflective learning, clinical reasoning, communication, and performance improvement.
• Deliver Accelerate educational programs in accordance with established clinical and educational standards.
• Adapt educational delivery to meet the goals and learning needs of individual healthcare organizations.

Clinical Expertise & Customer Engagement

• Serve as a trusted educational consultant to physicians, nurses, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, security personnel, and interdisciplinary care teams.
• Promote evidence-based behavioral health practices through realistic simulation scenarios and facilitated discussion.
• Evaluate learner performance and provide coaching and constructive feedback.
• Maintain a safe, respectful, and psychologically secure learning environment.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Accelerate operations, clinical faculty, and customer success teams to ensure successful program delivery.
• Participate in ongoing faculty development, continuing education, and facilitator calibration activities.
• Represent Accelerate professionally while fostering strong customer relationships and service excellence.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Medicine, or another healthcare-related discipline required.
• Current unrestricted clinical licensure appropriate to profession.
• Minimum of 5 years of recent clinical experience in behavioral health, psychiatric emergency services, emergency department behavioral health, crisis stabilization, community behavioral health, addiction medicine, or substance use treatment programs.
• Demonstrated expertise caring for patients experiencing behavioral health crises.
• Experience educating adult learners in clinical environments.
• Strong facilitation, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage customer engagements with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Valid driver's license.
• Ability to travel extensively throughout the United States and Canada (approximately 70–100%, based on facilitator availability and customer demand). Overnight and occasional weekend travel required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher.
• PMH-BC, LCSW, LPC, CARN, CHSE, CPI/MOAB Instructor, TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer, or other relevant certifications.
• Experience leading behavioral health simulation programs and simulation debriefings.
• Experience implementing interdisciplinary behavioral health education initiatives.
• Experience working within academic medical centers, integrated behavioral health systems, or psychiatric hospitals.
• Experience facilitating multidisciplinary education involving behavioral health professionals, physicians, nurses, social workers, security personnel, and other healthcare team members.

Simulation Experience Preferred

• High-fidelity, standardized patient, and in situ simulation.
• Structured debriefing methodologies.
• TeamSTEPPS or similar teamwork frameworks.
• Competency-based education and adult learning principles.
• Psychological safety and behavioral scenario facilitation.
• Previous experience serving as simulation faculty, simulation center staff, or behavioral health educator.

Daily Rate: $600/daily rate. All travel expenses (flights, meals, accommodations, transportation, etc.) eligible for reimbursement

Please note that this range does not include any other compensation or benefits that an individual may be eligible for. The salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, but not limited to; the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, location, level of education attained, and/or professional certifications, years of relevant experience, special skills, etc. 

Laerdal Medical Corporation is committed to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, martial status, age, genetic information, status as an individual with a disability, status as a protected veteran or any other legally protected status and to affirmatively seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity.