Nursing Clinical Placement Coordinator

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The Nursing Clinical Placement Advisor is responsible for student communication, clinical site development, placement matching, and placement documentation for nursing programs. This role serves as a liaison between students, university partners, nursing programs, clinical sites, preceptors, supervisors, and internal team members to help ensure a high-quality clinical experience.

Experience in clinical placement coordination is preferred. Experience supporting nursing programs, nurse practitioner programs, or other healthcare education programs is a strong plus.

• Review assigned student caseloads and clinical placement materials.
• Conduct introductory calls or meetings with students to understand their clinical needs, specialty requirements, location preferences, schedule availability, transportation access, and placement goals.
• Maintain regular communication with students throughout the placement process.
• Provide placement progress updates to students who are not yet matched.
• Conduct onboarding check-ins with confirmed students before the start of clinical placement.
• Respond to student emails and phone calls in a timely, professional, and supportive manner.
• Communicate with empathy, professionalism, and sound judgment, including during challenging or time-sensitive placement situations.
• Support student success by helping prevent placement delays and ensuring students understand next steps.

• Conduct outreach to new and existing clinical sites to identify placement opportunities for nursing students.
• Contact hospitals, health systems, outpatient clinics, private practices, community health centers, long-term care facilities, behavioral health sites, and other healthcare organizations to assess placement availability.
• Research new potential preceptors and clinical sites for students to complete required nursing clinical rotations or field experiences.
• Confirm site requirements, student capacity, supervision or preceptor availability, onboarding requirements, required documentation, clinical hour needs, and placement timelines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clinical partners, preceptors, supervisors, and university stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly with clinical sites regarding placement expectations, student needs, nursing program requirements, and timelines.
• Collect site information, preceptor details, onboarding requirements, affiliation agreement needs, and next steps.
• Document all outreach, site responses, and placement updates in the appropriate tracking systems.
• Identify when a site is not appropriate due to lack of qualified supervision, inability to meet clinical hour requirements, onboarding barriers, contract limitations, site disinterest, or other concerns.

• Support the student-to-site matching process based on student needs, nursing program requirements, clinical specialty requirements, geographic preferences, site availability, preceptor qualifications, and program expectations.
• Present appropriate clinical placement opportunities to students and clinical partners.
• Track student matching progress, including warm leads, pending interviews, approved placements, and confirmed placements.
• Work toward established placement timelines and key performance indicators related to student matching and confirmation.
• Collaborate with university partners, nursing program leadership, faculty, internal team members, and clinical sites to resolve placement-related concerns.
• Serve as a liaison between students, universities, nursing programs, clinical sites, and preceptors throughout the matching and confirmation process.
• Escalate complex site, student, preceptor, supervision, or compliance concerns to the appropriate leader.

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date student, site, preceptor, supervisor, and placement records across required systems.
• Audit caseload information regularly to ensure internal trackers, placement platforms, and student records align.
• Provide weekly caseload updates to leadership, including student status, matching progress, warm leads, confirmed placements, and outstanding site needs.
• Review student placement documents, which may include applications, resumes, clinical preference forms, onboarding documents, compliance records,…