Assistant Professor​/Director, Pre-Licensure Clinical Placements, College of Nursing, Thomas

Assistant Professor And Director, Pre-Licensure Clinical Placements

The Assistant Professor and Director, Pre-Licensure Clinical Placements is a faculty leadership role that combines the academic responsibilities of an Assistant Professor with strategic and operational leadership for undergraduate clinical education and placement. The position assumes a leadership role in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of curriculum and student learning experiences in classroom, laboratory/simulation, and clinical settings while providing oversight of clinical placement processes, clinical partnerships, adjunct clinical instructors, and related systems.

The Director serves as a primary liaison among JCN faculty, staff, students, clinical partners, and the broader Jefferson enterprise and supports an environment conducive to learning, strong academic-practice partnerships, and positive student/faculty relationships.

Responsibilities Include:

• Faculty Teaching, Scholarship and Service
• Provide theory and/or clinical instruction and utilize contemporary and innovative teaching methodologies in classroom, laboratory/simulation, and clinical settings.
• Serve as an academic advisor to assigned students, as applicable.
• Develop and implement a scholarly agenda and contribute to the nursing profession through scholarly papers, presentations, publications, grantsmanship, or other appropriate scholarly activity.
• Serve on College and/or University committees and demonstrate an emerging leadership role.
• Represent the College in appropriate University activities and participate actively in professional organizations at the local, state, or national level.
• Participate in College and University recruitment activities and activities that support the quality of nursing care and the nursing profession.
• Clinical Placement Leadership and Operations
• Communicate effectively and bi-directionally as a primary point of contact between clinical site personnel and JCN faculty, staff, and students.
• Lead and coordinate undergraduate clinical placement processes, including site relations, placement needs, site-specific requirements, and student and adjunct clinical instructor compliance.
• Collaborate with Chairs and program leadership to determine the number and type of clinical placements needed each semester by program and level.
• Deploy and support clinical placement request processes to route student requests to appropriate faculty for review, vetting, and approval.
• Oversee undergraduate aspects of the clinical management system and collaborate on implementation, maintenance, and evaluation of clinical placement technology and software.
• Clinical Partnerships and Academic-Practice Integration
• Identify, vet, cultivate, and maintain affiliated clinical education sites to expand high-quality clinical learning opportunities that reflect sound patient/client management, ethical and professional conduct, and contemporary nursing practice.
• Actively cultivate relationships throughout the Jefferson enterprise to develop and sustain a strategic pool of internal clinical placement opportunities.
• Build and strengthen community partnerships to meet clinical education needs as part of the Academic Practice Integration team.
• Serve as a JCN representative to Jefferson regional nurse residency advisory boards and other appropriate academic-practice forums.
• Collaborate with the clinical contracts coordinator to ensure affiliation agreements remain current and new agreements are processed efficiently.
• Contribute to Academic Practice Integration strategic planning and development of policies and procedures for clinical placement, management, communication, and evaluation.
• Clinical Quality and Adjunct Faculty Leadership
• Maintain clinical site rounding, preceptor, adjunct instructor, and clinical site evaluation information to support strategic planning and quality improvement.
• Review clinical site evaluations and collaborate with Program Directors and site contacts when sites do not meet established evaluation benchmarks.
• Lead the hiring, onboarding, evaluation/remediation, and professional development of adjunct clinical instructors.
• Collaborate with appropriate JCN partners to maintain and update handbooks, guidance, and resources for adjunct clinical instructors.
• Administrative and Professional Responsibilities
• Prepare internal and external correspondence, reports, and other materials related to clinical education and academic-practice initiatives.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with faculty, staff, students, clinical faculty, clinical preceptors, alumni, visitors, and internal and external partners.
• Exercise judgment requiring broad interpretation of policies, procedures, and instructions within the scope of assigned responsibilities.
• Interact with co-workers, visitors, students, faculty, and partners consistent with the core values of the University.
• Perform related duties as assigned.
• Supervisory / Leadership Responsibilities
• Provides leadership and direction to…