Hours Shift Start Time: 8:30 AM Shift End Time: 5:30 PM AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: Weekend Requirements: No Weekends On-Call Required: No Flat Hourly Rate of Pay: $34.890 What You Will Do The AVADE Instructor is responsible for delivering advanced-level training in violence prevention, deescalation, personal safety, and defensive response strategies. This role focuses on equipping participants with practical skills to recognize threats, manage highrisk situations, and respond appropriately while emphasizing safety, legal compliance, and professional conduct. Required Qualifications H.S. Diploma or Equivalent 2 Years experience as an AVADE instructor. 2 Years experience teaching adult learners in healthcare. Experience in violence prevention, de-escalation, defensive tactics, healthcare safety and education. AVADE Workplace Violence Prevention Instructor - AVADE -REQUIRED Preferred Qualifications Associate's Degree in nursing, emergency/safety response, behavioral health or related. Essential Functions Instruction and Training Delivery Conduct advanced AVADE training courses for employees, instructors, and leadership groups. Facilitate classroom, scenariobased, and handson training sessions using approved AVADE curriculum. Demonstrate advanced deescalation, situational awareness, and defensive techniques in a clear, professional manner. Adapt instructional methods to diverse audiences, experience levels, and learning styles. Curriculum and Program Support Deliver standardized AVADE course content while maintaining instructional integrity. Assist with curriculum updates and provide feedback based on participant outcomes and field experience. Ensure training reflects current best practices, legal considerations, and organizational policies. Evaluation and Certification Assess participant performance through practical exercises and scenariobased evaluations. Provide coaching, feedback, and remediation as needed. Recommend participants for successful course completion or additional training. Safety and Compliance Maintain a safe learning environment at all times. Enforce all safety protocols during physical and scenariobased instruction. Ensure compliance with organizational standards, liability requirements, and ethical guidelines. Professional Representation Serve as a professional representative of the AVADE program. Maintain instructor certification and required continuing education. Mentor new or developing instructors as requested. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Strong facilitation, presentation and instructional skill. Ability to manage high stress realistic training scenarios professionally. Ability to safely demonstrate defensive techniques. Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit health care system based in San Diego, California, with four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three medical groups and a health plan. We provide medical services in virtually all fields of medicine, including primary care, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, womens health, rehabilitation, robotic surgery and bariatric surgery. Sharp sets the community standard for exceptional care. Sharp Grossmont Hospital and Sharp Memorial Hospital have received prestigious Magnet recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for excellence in nursing practices and quality patient care. At the heart of our organization are more than 18,000 affiliated physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers who are on a journey to make health care better for our patients and their families. Its what we call The Sharp Experience treating each person with dignity, compassion and respect, and using our clinical excellence and advanced technology to deliver the highest-quality patient care. We are dedicated to transforming the health care experience by making Sharp the best place to work, the best place to practice medicine and the best place to receive care in San Diego.
