Director of Clinical Learning Job Pooler area,Georgia USA,Nursing

At Galen College of Nursing, we educate and empower nurses to change lives. Since 1989, we’ve dedicated our work to delivering high-quality nursing education with a student-first mindset. As one of the largest private nursing colleges in the country, we combine the support of a close-knit learning environment with the strength of a nationally recognized institution, HCA Healthcare.

That same passion for excellence in the classroom extends to our offices. At Galen, you’ll find a culture deeply rooted in collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to improving the future of healthcare. Your work directly touches the next generation of nurses, and your contributions help our students pursue their dream of a compassionate career.

Position Overview:

As a Director of Clinical Learning at Galen College of Nursing, you will operationalize standard clinical experiences and lead the negotiation, arrangement, and campus-level evaluation of all clinical experiences across nursing programs. Support faculty in facilitating the standardized curriculum and instructional model, ensuring experiences align with curriculum outcomes and uphold the Galen College of Nursing mission and values. This role operates in a matrix structure, reporting directly to the Dean while maintaining a dotted-line relationship with the Clinical Performance and Experience team to ensure alignment on Galen strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Ensures that clinical experience evaluation findings are disseminated and used to inform decision-making for the maintenance and improvement of the student learning outcomes, program outcomes, and the overall student clinical experience.

Leads, attends, and supports relevant committee meetings.

Provide strategic oversight of assigned faculty placement and orientation in collaboration with campus leadership and the Clinical Faculty Support Specialist.

Ensures that assigned faculty are academically and experientially prepared for the content in which they teach, maintain expertise in their areas of responsibility, and that their performance reflects scholarship and evidence-based teaching and clinical practices.

Interviews and hires faculty and staff in congruence with college standards and in collaboration with the program administrator or designee.

Oversees assigned faculty (full-time and adjunct) and clinical education staff 90-day and annual performance evaluations and develops a plan with the faculty when areas for improvement are identified. Actively support faculty in the Rank and Promotion Process.

When applicable, full-time clinical faculty will report to the DCL, while adjunct clinical faculty will report to the CLM role. In the absence of a CLM, adjunct faculty will report to the DCL.

Collaborates with campus leadership and administrative staff for communication processes between theory, clinical learning laboratory, simulation, and assigned clinical faculty.

Ensures that all students and faculty are oriented to the clinical agency site.

Ensures that all students and faculty are compliant with clinical agency requirements.

In collaboration with the program administrator or designee, ensures the appropriate application of student policies and the correct implementation of related procedures by faculty.

Ensures high-quality, rigorous, diverse clinical experiences that support the student learning outcomes in all nursing programs by overseeing the availability and regular evaluation of appropriate clinical experiences aligned with student learning outcomes, accreditation, regulatory state board of nursing guidelines, and institutional policy and procedure.

Oversees the placement of clinical experiences that support course student learning outcomes and college, regional, and campus policy and procedure.

Supports faculty adherence to standardized curriculum, assessment and evaluation practices and instructional model.

Supports faculty engagement in the curriculum review and revision process.

Executes and maintains clinical affiliation agreements to ensure that records are current and comply with regulatory standards for clinical experiences in collaboration with the Compliance department.

Collaborate with campus leadership to establish clinical education financial needs.

Collaborates with the 504/Title IX Accommodations team to identify and implement resources required to provide approved services.

Escalates concerns to the campus dean and Clinical Performance and Experience Team.

Collaborates with leadership to create and maintain an environment conducive to teaching and learning, scholarship, and service, including oversight of faculty clinical course assignments, clinical scheduling, and workload.

Identifies, negotiates, establishes, maintains, and evaluates clinical agency partnerships and satisfaction to ensure that a variety of clinical experiences are available for student learning and application of clinical practice.

Participates in review and approval of the clinical schedule and any subsequent clinical schedule…