Nursing Instructor

Overview

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

We are looking for an Clinical Adjunct Instructor to join our team.

This position will instruct Nursing courses in the Nursing programs

Responsibilities

Instruction

• Facilitate student learning, provide effective instruction, and perform evaluations of student learning for all assigned clinicals, labs, or simulated clinical experiences (SCE), using each course's standard course outline as a guide. Ensure that students have attained minimum course competencies as described in the course syllabus
• Supervise, debrief, and evaluate students in lab, clinical, SCE, and similar settings as appropriate for the course or program
• Be available to students via email, phone, or personal conferences
• Meet all classes and other scheduled responsibilities such as scheduled clinical hours and meetings at the designated times. A faculty member should inform the Program Director/Academic Dean if they are unable to meet a student group on time
• Assure that classroom, lab, or pre- and post-conference rooms are left clean and orderly at the end of each event

Training and Professional Development

• Attend New Faculty Orientation and participate in Faculty Mentor Program
• Maintain a faculty development plan with the assistance of academic administration
• Attend campus faculty meetings and in-service trainings and other meetings as assigned
• Remain current in program knowledge, including maintaining licensure, certification, or continuing education requirements where appropriate
• Participate in professional development activities

Administrative

• Keep accurate attendance records, posting attendance in the portal and submitting attendance roster to the Academic Department for each class period in a timely manner
• Assign grades and maintain course/student records in accordance with FERPA regulations and submit grades and records by established deadlines
• Make missed lab, SCE, or clinical phone calls to students that misses or are not actively engaged in learning outcomes
• Make recommendations and adhere to the Academic Freedom policy as outlined in the Faculty handbook
• Perform other duties designated by the Program Administrator, Lead Instructor and/or Academic Dean

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current and unencumbered licensure
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required; Master’s Degree preferred
• Able to meet the faculty requirements set by Board of Registered Nursing in the state in which you will work
• Experience which demonstrates: Current knowledge of nursing practice; ability to mentor students; strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• One (1) year adult instruction experience preferred
• A documented background in educational methodology consistent with teaching assignments including but not limited to education theory and practice, or current concepts relative to specific subjects he or she will be teaching, or current clinical practice experience, or distance education techniques and delivery
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite Products, especially Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and other MS office products as needed