Kidney Smart Educator

Posting Date

12/16/2025

2301 Valor Drive, Winchester, Virginia, 22601, United States of America

KIDNEY SMART EDUCATOR (KS Class & Modality Educator) Job Description

Introduction

Kidney Smart Educators perform an important role in giving CKD participants the gift of education. As part of that, there are requirements for the position to ensure that all Educators have an adequate background as well as a passion for kidney disease education. This job description provides an overview of the Educator position, which includes Kidney Smart Class Educators and Modality Educators.

Background:

Kidney Smart is a patient education program covering CKD education at no-cost to help empower patients to make more informed choices – no matter where a patient may eventually start dialysis and regardless of their provider, payor or employment status

Role Description: Kidney Smart Educators should be friendly, warm, and welcoming in nature with a passion for CKD education. Kidney Smart Educators are ambassadors who promote the program when opportunities arise.

Kidney Smart Educators must be clinically licensed or certified healthcare professionals and DaVita teammates, In order to become a KS educator, teammates must present proof of certification or clinical licensure upon onboarding as a KS educator. This can be confirmed by presentation of a hard copy upon onboarding or through verbal confirmation from direct manager who hired teammate.

Note: Any Kidney Smart Educator that was not licensed or certified prior to May 18, 2016 may remain a certified Kidney Smart Educator. However, if the Educator is removed from the KS roster at any time he or she must complete all onboarding requirements to be added back as an “active educator.”

Responsibilities

Education Delivery:

• Engage the community with focus on key actions toward improved health outcomes for CKD participants through a classroom environment

• Explain complex health concepts for participants in an easy-to-understand manner, using the most recently approved versions of the Kidney Smart curriculum (curriculum and educator guide)

• Skilled in working with a wide variety of participants who may be challenged in hearing, sight, and mobility

• Keep the Kidney Smart Program safe by following all Kidney Smart Program Requirements as indicated in the compliance policy and Educator Resource Manual.

• Skilled in reviewing, educating and answering questions on all modality options for dialysis including, transplant, hemodialysis, PD and HHD

Administrative:

• Complete all training courses that are related to Kidney Smart Compliance and Operations

 Use only most recent approved Kidney Smart materials (curriculum, support materials and educator guide)

 Plan class locations considering convenience and accessibility for area participants and technological resources available (if applicable)

• Plan class dates and times to maximize efficiency and reach (if applicable)

• Schedule classes through Kidney Smart scheduling system (if applicable)

• Ability to use laptop/projector

• Hold classes in approved, compliant venues per policy and procedures

• Submit all class attendance forms within48 hours of each class completion to KS Local Coordinator

• Call participants to remind them of scheduled classes & provide post-class follow-up(if applicable) • Commit to staying up to date with Kidney Smart communications and implementing all process/program changes O Read the Newsflash, attend WebEx meetings and KS calls as scheduled in your local area

Outreach and Program Promotion:(If applicable)

• Assist regional and divisional leadership in physician outreach, which may consist of, but not be limited to:

Presentations of class content, clinical impact metrics, and recommendation processes to nephrology practices

Developing further outreach strategies to maximize class attendance throughout the community Educational and Clinical Requirements:

• Clinical experience (kidney care preferred) • Educators must be certified and/or licensed healthcare professionals and must be able to present proof of license or certification upon onboarding as an educator

At DaVita, we strive to be a community first and a company second.  We want all teammates to experience DaVita as "a place where I belong."  Our goal is to embed belonging into everything we do in our Village, so that it becomes part of who we are. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and comply with state and federal affirmative action requirements. Individuals are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

This position will be open for a minimum of three days.

 

 

 

Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience. DaVita offers a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Learn more at https://careers.davita.com/benefits  

  

Colorado Residents: Please do not respond to any questions in this initial application that may seek age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You may also redact this information from any materials you submit during the application process.  You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.