Faculty, EMS Program Director

Position: Full Time Faculty, EMS Program Director
North West Arkansas Community College (NWACC) provides quality and affordable higher education to empower lives and strengthen communities within Northwest Arkansas and surrounding areas.
As the largest community college in Arkansas, NWACC is recognized as a leader in education. NWACC offers a full range of associate degrees, certificates and workforce training programs that prepare students for rewarding futures and careers.

NWACC employees are dedicated to fostering a diverse educational community and cultural learning environment that supports student success.

The Program Director is under the Dean of Health Professions. The EMS Program Director is responsible for all aspects of the EMS Program’s Didactic and Clinical sections, including developing, monitoring and maintaining an adequate number of faculty. Oversight of the clinical education documentation, teaching preceptor classes to clinical staff, ensuring communication between the Program and clinical sites. Scheduling, instruction and evaluation of students.

Annual reports to:
CoAEMSP accreditation, The Dean of Health Professions, Program Advisory Board, and Program faculty. Directing the development of classroom curriculum and online education for sections in the EMS programs. Oversight of the teaching/administrating courses assigned by Program Director that may include Paramedic level, EMT, or EMR.
** Essential Duties:
**** Accreditation:
*** Meeting and maintaining the Commission on Accreditation Emergency Medical Technology standards related to all aspects to retain accreditation.
* Assisting and providing the EMS faculty with information needed to maintain accreditation
* Staying current with accrediting body standards
* Implementing and monitoring accrediting body standards as indicated
** Management:
*** Maintaining accreditation through following the interpretation of the current CoAEMSP standards.
* Scheduling, instruction and evaluation of students enrolled in clinical rotations at each of the clinical sites working with the Clinical Coordinator at NWACC
* Training, utilization, and assessment of clinical sites, clinical instructors and preceptors
* Managing clinical records:
Tracking the Clinical Coordinator to maintain current database of clinical education sites, current information on clinical site and clinical instructors, number of sites available and utilized annually. Be familiar with computer programing such as FISDAP to track student progress and scheduling.
* Assist the Clinical Coordinator in:
Reviewing/revising/maintaining and updating Clinic Manual to include current clinical education policies and procedures, student course content covered prior to clinical rotation, grading and supervision expectations, use of grading forms, Program goals and mission, continuing education/training material.
* Communicating and supervising students in clinical education rotations to include educating students on clinical education policies, assessment and supervision expectations for each clinical, student assessment and CI assessment procedures.
* Reviewing Preceptor performed student evaluations and determining clinical education grade
* Collecting and organizing pertinent information from clinical education sites, students, and CI’s and sharing with faculty during curricular review and/or in Program meeting and Advisory Board meetings.
* Reviewing/revising/updating/implementing student Professional Development Plan
* Developing student recruitment and Program marketing
* Participating in student advising and remediation as appropriate for prospective & current physical therapist assistant students
* Representing Northwest Arkansas Community College, the Program and the profession to the college, to outside organization and to the community in a positive, professional manner
* Managing the administration of competency examinations
* Managing the student selection process
* Attending departmental, divisional, college, and Advisory Board meetings.
* Assisting the Dean and other Program Directors in reviewing the Student Policy & Procedure Manual, Program Policy & Procedure Manual, Admission Procedures & Application Process for the Program
* Serving…