Emergency Medical Services Adjunct Instructor (Pool

Paramedic Instructor Position

Laredo College continuously accepts applications for part-time (adjunct) instructors to create a pool of candidates for each session/semester. Applications will be reviewed and positions will be filled based on department needs. Applications received for this pool will remain active for one year. Upon employment, candidate must reside in the state of Texas.

Essential duties and responsibilities include providing a safe environment for students, encouraging students to use available support services, and promoting the college's programs and curricula. Characteristic duties and responsibilities include ensuring instructional quality for students, creating and modifying health programs curriculum, identifying clinical sites for student learning needs, maintaining current licensure and expertise, ensuring courses syllabi reflect student expectations, effective communication with students, compiling, administering, and grading course work, maintaining security of teaching materials, maintaining HIPPA and FERPA standards, providing information for educational, funding, and accrediting agencies, following procedures related to the Registrar's Office, following Laredo College's course, faculty, and student evaluation procedures, following proper procedures for requesting textbooks and supplies, submitting travel and absence reports within one week, substituting for colleagues when necessary, preparing students for library research and outside assignments, following the academic calendar, participating in institutional and departmental committees, participating in assessment, implementation, and evaluation of Institutional Effectiveness measures, and performing other duties as assigned.

To be considered for this position, you are required to upload your resume and unofficial transcript(s). If recommended for this position an official transcript(s) will be required. If a license or certificate is required for this position, upload proof of your current license/certificate.

Required:

• A current Paramedic License from the Texas Department of State Health Services and/or National Registry Paramedic Certificate
• Associate of Applied Science EMS-Paramedic
• Three years of EMS experience

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Two years of adult teaching experience

Knowledge, skills and abilities include pedagogical competency focused on student learning and engagement, ability to collect data, evaluate and submit reports, use of current technology to enhance teaching effectiveness (use Microsoft Office is required), professionalism and effective oral and written communication skills with the public, students, colleagues, and administrators, ability to operate specialized simulation and laboratory equipment, ability to develop and use various teaching strategies, and willingness to work flexible schedules which include: days, evenings, and weekends, as needed.

Supervision exercised is student in classroom, lab, and clinical sites. Supervision received is EMS Program Director, Allied Health Program Director, Dean of Health Sciences and/or Provost/Vice President of Academic Affairs. Physical requirements include sitting, standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, or crouching, and lifting and/or moving items weighing up to 50 pounds. Work environment is performed in a standard office environment, work-inside a well-lighted and air-conditioned area most of the time, and the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.

Safety requires working safely and following safety rules, reporting unsafe working conditions and behavior, and taking reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices. Special conditions include immediate supervisor may assign other duties, may be required to work outside regular working hours, as needed, and may be required to work at a different college work site or campus as needed.

In compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Laredo College is open to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, or national origin who are otherwise eligible for admission as students.

Furthermore, Laredo College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and no applicant or employee will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or national origin. This institution will not enter knowingly into any contractual agreement for services or supplies with any firm failing to follow fair employment practices. Foreign degrees require an evaluation for United States equivalency from an approved stated education agency or having membership with the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).

Transcripts issued outside the United States of America require a course-by-course analysis with an equivalency statement from a certified transcript…