Nursing Instructor

Signature Healthcare is Southwestern Massachusetts’ premier local provider of quality, personalized medical services. We are comprised of the award‑winning not‑for‑profit Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital;
Signature Medical Group (SMG), a multi‑specialty physician group of more than 150 physicians practicing in 18 ambulatory locations; and Brockton Hospital School of Nursing, a private, co‑educational institution of nursing education. We believe our distinctive Signature Healthcare team approach is the way healthcare should be: medical professionals across many locations communicating and collaborating, taking advantage of technologies and resources to make a difference in the lives and health of our patients.

We are looking for a Nursing Instructor to join our Brockton School of Nursing team. The Brockton School of Nursing remains the only hospital‑based nursing school in the state of Massachusetts. The Nursing Instructor is responsible for classroom and clinical instruction and evaluation, program development, team collegiality and problem solving. The instructor must possess the ability to work cooperatively, demonstrate leadership and organizational skills, and be able to appropriately communicate with students, peers, and professional associates.

The instructor's conduct shall reflect the Code for Professional Nurses and the Core Competencies for Nurse Educators.

• Plan and assume classroom and clinical teaching responsibilities, supervise and evaluate students’ classroom and clinical performance.
• Implement a variety of active teaching strategies appropriate to student needs, desired student outcomes, content and context. Ground teaching strategies in educational theory.
• Identify multi‑cultural, gender and experiential influences on teaching and learning. Use technologies to support the teaching‑learning process.
• Apply oral, written and electronic communication that reflects an awareness of self and others and an ability to convey ideas in a variety of contexts. Create opportunities for students to develop their critical thinking skills and clinical judgment.
• Demonstrate interest in and respect for students. Develop collegial working relationships with students, faculty, associates and clinical agency personnel to promote positive learning environments.
• Request textbooks, technology materials, laboratory equipment and other supplies/equipment.

• Identify individual learning needs and styles of adult, multi‑cultural, educationally and physically challenged, at‑risk and second‑degree students. Provide resources to diverse students that help meet their individual learning needs.
• Assume role as faculty advisor. Engage in effective advisement and counseling strategies. Create learning environments that are focused on socialization to the role of the nurse and facilitate students’ self‑reflection and personal goal setting.
• Foster the cognitive, psychomotor and affective development of students. Assist students to develop the ability to engage in thoughtful and constructive self‑evaluation.

• Use a variety of strategies to assess and evaluate learning in the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. Implement assessment and evaluation strategies that are appropriate to the student and student goals and enhance the teaching‑learning process. Draw on literature to design teaching and evaluation strategies.
• Exhibit a spirit of inquiry about teaching and learning, student development and evaluation methods. Provide timely and constructive feedback to students and demonstrate skill in the design and use of tools for assessing clinical practice.
• Maintain current records of student achievement. Write weekly clinical anecdotal notes for each student.
• Construct course exams using an evidence‑based approach. Analyze student test performance based on item analysis.
• Submit course grades and clinical evaluation tools to team leader. Collaborate with students who are on academic or clinical warning and design educational plans.
• Contribute to the development of course syllabi, topical outlines…