Corporate Nurse Educator Staff Education

Catholic Health System

Buffalo, New York

Eligibility: Administrative & Consulting NursesClinical Nurse Educators

Posted Jul 29

Shift and hours: 8-⁠hour rotating40 hours a week
Unit and setting: Hospital
License: RN license
Term: Permanent

What it pays

Against similar roles: In range for New York staff rolesNew York staff postings that state pay run $62k/yr to $143k/yr, the middle half $80k/yr to $117k/yr, across 2,358 postings.

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The role and schedule

Union: Union position
Weekends: Weekends required

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Catholic Health System

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A unionized Catholic health system where most inpatient roles run 12-hour shifts on Epic, with outpatient clinics keeping weekday hours. New graduates can enter a 9-12 month residency that begins in sub-acute care and moves into home care.

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Positions offer 12-hour shifts (e.g., 7a-7p, 6:45p-7a) with weekend and holiday rotations; outpatient clinics run standard weekday hours.

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The Corporate Nurse Educator position is responsible for providing staff development expertise as an educator, consultant, facilitator, change agent, leader, and researcher. This occurs through the facilitation of the educational process assessment, development, planning, implementation, and evaluation of competencies, continuing education, and leadership development to meet the learning needs of Catholic Health (CH) associates. In collaboration with Nursing leadership and others, coordinate and establish the education plan on an annual and ongoing basis. Instrumental in creating a professional nursing climate within CH.

What's around it?

In Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NYFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 4% below the US average

Median rent: $1,046/mo
Household income: $50,041/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Buffalo, NY

NeighborhoodsNurses and young professionals most often land in Elmwood Village or Allentown in the city, or the Northtowns if they want yards and schools. Elmwood Village is the walkable spine of restaurants, cafes, bars, and independent shops along Elmwood Avenue, with summer festivals and parades; 2026 figures put median homes around $325,714 and rent near $920. Allentown, just north of downtown, is the LGBTQ-friendly arts neighborhood of brightly painted Victorian, Italianate, and Queen Anne houses, murals, and late-night Allen Street (median home $257,525, rent $716). Parkside/Park Meadow is calmer and family-oriented beside Olmsted’s Delaware Park and Wright’s Darwin Martin House (~$268,100 / $1,037 rent). Reddit and Facebook repeatedly name Williamsville and Clarence as the safe, high-school-quality suburbs; Tonawanda ($119,100 / $697) and West Seneca ($157,400 / $875) are the cheaper suburban plays. North Buffalo and South Buffalo also come up as historic, buyable city neighborhoods.

Nurses and young professionals most often land in Elmwood Village or Allentown in the city, or the Northtowns if they want yards and schools. Elmwood Village is the walkable spine of restaurants, cafes, bars, and independent shops along Elmwood Avenue, with summer festivals and parades; 2026 figures put median homes around $325,714 and rent near $920. Allentown, just north of downtown, is the LGBTQ-friendly arts neighborhood of brightly painted Victorian, Italianate, and Queen Anne houses, murals, and late-night Allen Street (median home $257,525, rent $716).

Parkside/Park Meadow is calmer and family-oriented beside Olmsted’s Delaware Park and Wright’s Darwin Martin House (~$268,100 / $1,037 rent). Reddit and Facebook repeatedly name Williamsville and Clarence as the safe, high-school-quality suburbs; Tonawanda ($119,100 / $697) and West Seneca ($157,400 / $875) are the cheaper suburban plays.

North Buffalo and South Buffalo also come up as historic, buyable city neighborhoods.

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As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: facebook.com Source 2: extraspace.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: buffalohomes.co Source 5: youtube.com

Getting aroundResidents say you can drive across Buffalo in about twenty minutes without big-city gridlock, and the road system is generally well regarded, but a reliable car is treated as a necessity—especially in snow. Public transit is described as limited and spread out, the metro is not highly rated, and street parking inside the city is a frequent complaint. Healthcare employment is anchored by the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sources do not name specific bus or rail lines to those campuses.

Residents say you can drive across Buffalo in about twenty minutes without big-city gridlock, and the road system is generally well regarded, but a reliable car is treated as a necessity—especially in snow. Public transit is described as limited and spread out, the metro is not highly rated, and street parking inside the city is a frequent complaint.

Healthcare employment is anchored by the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sources do not name specific bus or rail lines to those campuses.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: extraspace.com Source 2: reddit.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: devontedavis.net

OutdoorsDelaware Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (the same landscape architect as Central Park), is the city’s backyard and the reason Parkside exists; the Buffalo Zoo and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House sit nearby. The reimagined Lake Erie waterfront—Canalside, the Outer Harbor, and Erie Basin Marina—supports kayaking, biking, summer concerts, and winter skating plus heated igloos. Boat tours run the Buffalo River’s industrial-to-waterfront story. Niagara Falls is the easy regional day trip, and residents cite plentiful parks and outdoor time as a core reason they stay.

Delaware Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (the same landscape architect as Central Park), is the city’s backyard and the reason Parkside exists; the Buffalo Zoo and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House sit nearby. The reimagined Lake Erie waterfront—Canalside, the Outer Harbor, and Erie Basin Marina—supports kayaking, biking, summer concerts, and winter skating plus heated igloos.

Boat tours run the Buffalo River’s industrial-to-waterfront story. Niagara Falls is the easy regional day trip, and residents cite plentiful parks and outdoor time as a core reason they stay.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: buffalohomes.co Source 2: afar.com Source 3: buffalowaterfront.com Source 4: newyorkrentalbyowner.com Source 5: extraspace.com

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Buffalo is a mid-size Lake Erie city where an $80k–$150k nurse can still buy a colorful Victorian, walk to wings and a brewery, and cross town in twenty minutes. Healthcare sits on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and Roswell Park. Elmwood Village and Allentown are the young-professional cores—Elmwood Avenue shops, Allen Street murals—while Parkside hugs Olmsted’s Delaware Park and Williamsville and Clarence offer the safest schools. Food runs from Gabriels Gate and Bar-Bill wings and Charlie the Butcher’s beef on weck to Southern Junction’s James Beard-nominated barbecue, Remedy House coffee, 35-plus breweries, and 4 a.m. last call. Canalside, the Outer Harbor, and Erie Basin Marina mean kayaks, concerts, and winter skating; Niagara Falls and Toronto are day trips. Tradeoffs are real: lake-effect winters, high New York taxes, weak transit and city parking, city schools that lag the Northtowns, and a redlining map still visible by neighborhood.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: extraspace.com Source 2: buffalohomes.co Source 3: visitbuffalo.com Source 4: afar.com Source 5: buffalowaterfront.com Source 6: extraspace.com Source 7: youtube.com Source 8: devontedavis.net Source 9: reddit.com

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