Practical Nursing Program Lead Instructor

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Full time Hamden, CT, US

2 days ago Requisition

Practical Nursing Program Lead Instructor – Lead Faculty. Shape Future Nurses. Make a Difference.

Are you an experienced nurse who’s ready for a change from long shifts, weekends, holidays, staffing shortages, and the physical demands of bedside nursing?

This is your opportunity to stay connected to nursing while using your experience to lead faculty, mentor students, and help prepare the next generation of Practical Nurses.

We’re looking for an experienced nurse and natural leader who wants to make a bigger impact. If you know nursing, have a passion for helping others succeed, and are ready to take the next step in your career, we’ll provide the support and training you need to succeed in nursing education.

As the Practical Nursing Program Lead Instructor
, you’ll combine hands‑on nursing knowledge with instructional leadership to help ensure students receive high-quality classroom, laboratory, and clinical education.

As a Practical Nursing Program Lead Instructor, you’ll provide direct instruction while serving as a leader, mentor, and resource for faculty and students.

You will:

• Teach a minimum of 26 instructional hours per week through classroom, laboratory, and clinical instruction.
• Lead and mentor faculty to ensure consistent, high-quality instruction and a positive student learning experience.
• Bring your real-world nursing experience into the classroom, lab, simulation, and clinical settings.
• Help students connect nursing theory to real patient‑care situations and develop clinical judgment, critical thinking, communication, professionalism, and career‑readiness skills.
• Prepare and deliver engaging lectures, demonstrations, simulations, patient‑care scenarios, competency evaluations, and clinical learning experiences.
• Mentor students throughout their nursing education, including students who may be struggling academically, clinically, or with attendance.
• Develop and implement student success and retention strategies to help students stay on track and graduate successfully.
• Monitor student academic, attendance, laboratory, and clinical performance and provide timely, constructive feedback.
• Conduct and document faculty classroom and clinical observations while providing coaching, mentorship, and professional development.
• Ensure curriculum, course materials, assessments, and LMS content are current, consistent, accessible, and aligned with program outcomes.
• Maintain accurate academic, attendance, clinical, and faculty documentation and complete required reports.
• Support students with academic, attendance, financial, and career needs through appropriate referrals and interventions.
• Ensure students demonstrate safe, competent, and professional nursing practice before progressing through the program.
• Maintain safe, organized, and well‑equipped classroom, laboratory, and clinical learning environments.
• Build strong relationships with clinical partners, employers, faculty, students, and other program stakeholders.
• Participate in monthly meetings with the PN education management team, to review program updates, student outcomes, faculty needs, clinical operations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support compliance with ACCSC standards, Connecticut State Board of Examiners for Nursing requirements, institutional policies, and PN academic and clinical policies and procedures.
• Participate in orientations, campus meetings, graduation activities, professional development, continuing education, and professional organizations.
• Maintain all required nursing licenses and certifications.

You Won’t Be Doing It Alone - You’ll have the support of a dedicated academic and administrative team, established curriculum, instructional resources, and professional development opportunities.

You bring the nursing expertise. We’ll support you in becoming an exceptional nursing educator and leader.

• Current, valid Registered Nursing (RN) license in the State of Connecticut…