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Title: Medical -Surgical Nursing Faculty
Salary Range: $58,000.00 based on education and experience
Contract Term Length: 10 Months
Standard Hours: 37.50
Work Location: On-Site
FLSA Status: Exempt
College: Jefferson Community & Technical College
Campus Location: Jefferson Community College
Department: Nursing
Total Rewards
Jefferson Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity including:
- Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
- Tuition discounts and waivers
- 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
- Vacation/Sick Time
- Work-Life Balance
- 9.5 Paid Holidays
- 2 Weeks of Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
- Employee Assistance Program
Job Summary
Jefferson Community and Technical College is currently looking for multiple full-time Nursing faculty members. This position will be on-campus classroom instruction. Faculty members are the College’s teaching staff. Essentially, the faculty member’s responsibilities fall within four categories of essential job functions: instruction and assessment of student learning, scholarship and professional development, professionalism, and service orientation within the College and toward the community.
Job Duties:
- Within face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid learning environments, the faculty member facilitates student learning, delivers effective and career-relevant instruction, provides an environment conducive to learning, evaluates student learning for all assigned classes, responds to student inquiries, and grades all assignments in a timely manner.
- Schedules, supervises, debriefs, and evaluates students in clinical and similar settings as appropriate for the course or program.
- Participates in student retention, reaching out to students who have excessive absences, documenting their student retention activities, and ensuring students are aware of college services that may be of value to their students’ successful completion of their academic program.
- Communicates availability (e.g., office hours) to all students (i.e., face-to-face, online, or hybrid learning environments) via email, phone, or other personal contact.
- Participates in the annual faculty performance review process.
- Participates in the College’s Professional Development Program.
- Remains current and knowledgeable in academic or program discipline, including attending professional conferences and maintaining licensure, certification, or continuing education requirements where appropriate.
- Receives training to stay current in technological and pedagogical advances that promote student learning.
- Adheres to all policies related to instruction, teaching, and being an employee of the college as specified by the Faculty/Staff Handbook and HR policies.
- Accurately records and reports student attendance in accordance with College Attendance policy.
Minimum Qualifications:
- A minimum of 2 years of full-time clinical experience over the last 5 years is required. Teaching experience preferred but not required.
- An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered.
- Registered Nurse with active, unencumbered and unrestricted license in Kentucky or multistate license or Compact state license to practice nursing in the state of Kentucky
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
- Must possess excellent leadership, customer service, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and efficiently while meeting required deadlines.
- Ability to function efficiently in a stressful work environment.
- Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends, and travel to multiple locations as the course schedule dictates.
- The ability to maintain a seated or standing position for extended durations and the capability to move around the campus and/or clinical environment is required. Additionally, candidates should possess the physical capacity to lift and bend, as some of the work entails participating in simulation and laboratory settings.
- Must be able to hear and speak well enough to communicate with students, faculty, and staff face to face, via the telephone, and through electronic mediums (e.g., email, recordings, virtual meetings, etc.).
Additional Skills Requested:
This position requires the ability to work in a culturally diverse environment, which consists of frequent contact with a diverse constituency of students, faculty, staff, and the public. Candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to working with underrepresented minority students through teaching, mentoring, or administration are especially encouraged to apply. Candidates who have experience with intersectional, inclusive instruction and with a demonstrated ability to incorporate diverse perspectives into teaching and student engagement are encouraged to identify those experiences in the application materials. Jefferson Community and Technical College is working to build a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working.
Salary : $58,000
