Learning Coordinator - Midwifery

Work Based Learning Coordinator - Midwifery

Kennedy-King College is seeking a Work Based Learning Coordinator who will plan and develop clinical education experiences for the clinical phase in an Allied Health/Career Program. The position monitors supervised clinical practice experiences and modifies them as necessary to ensure expected learning outcomes will be met by each student by program completion.

The Associate of Applied Science in Licensed Midwifery at Kennedy King College prepares students for entry into professional midwifery practice through a rigorous, holistic, and community centered curriculum grounded in the Midwives Model of Care. The program integrates strong foundations in biology, sociology, public health, nutrition, and pharmacology with progressive core midwifery coursework covering antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and well woman gynecologic care.

Emphasis is placed on culturally responsive, trauma informed, and equity driven practice, ensuring graduates are prepared to serve diverse families across the lifespan.

• Maintains links with clinical instructors, community health centers, and other agencies involved in the clinical phase of the program.
• Assures the availability of remedial instruction for struggling students.
• Reviews syllabi and lesson plans, in conjunction with the faculty, and ensures all are appropriately mapped to curriculum, and meet accreditation standards.
• Orients instructors to ensure student learning outcomes and expected educational competencies are communicated to instructors and scheduled for students.
• Monitors supervised clinical practice experiences to ensure instructors are fulfilling student learning outcomes and recommends modifications as necessary to ensure student learning outcomes are met by each student by program completion.
• Works with clinical instructors to ensure documentation of student demonstration of defined professional behaviors and that student assessments, evaluations, various documentations and grades are properly obtained, completed, accurate and reported.
• Accountable for program's compliance with the accrediting body standards. Disseminates regulatory program changes and updates to the instructors. Monitors and informs program managers of mandatory compliance issues and program changes. Directs staff activities in preparing for ICCB and other program reviews.
• Establishes the clinical rotation schedule for the term and assigns clinical students using the established network of clinical sites.
• Assigns instructors to clinical sessions; selects the books for the term and helps select student supplies.
• Meets with representatives of potential clinical sites and develops new/additional sites for the program.
• Performs clinical site evaluations as part of the contract renewal process and writes qualitative evaluations of the site.
• Defines and maintains consistent and effective processes for the initial and ongoing evaluation of all sites used for students' clinical practice experiences, using comparable evaluation processes for clinical sites regardless of geographic location.
• Ensures and documents that each clinical site provides the student access to physical facilities, patient populations and supervision necessary to fulfill the program's expectation of the clinical experience.
• Participates in the application review process, College and program Open House activities, and new student orientation.
• Submits all State and National test applications for program completers. Coordinates the development of an electronic standardized Midterm and Final examination and proposes recommendations for modifications.

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Midwifery or a related field
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