April 6, 2024

EMPLOYMENT NOTICE

Applications now being taken for the following position:

 

Nurse Aide Instructor

2024-2025 School Year (Anticipated Vacancy)

Valley Career & Technical Center

 

Valley Career & Technical Center (VCTC) is seeking a full-time instructor for our high school nurse aide program. As part of the health occupations faculty, the instructor is responsible for developing, implementing, evaluating, and revising components within the approved nurse aide curriculum. The curriculum shall provide each student with specific learning experiences necessary to obtain licensure as a CNA within a framework of state licensure requirements/Virginia Department of Education competencies.

EDUCATIONAL and PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

The Nurse Aide Instructor shall (i) hold a current, unrestricted Virginia license or a multistate licensure privilege as a registered nurse; and (ii) have two years of experience as a registered nurse within the previous five years and at least one year of direct client care or supervisory experience in the provision of geriatric long-term care services. Other experience may include employment in a nurse aide education program or employment in or supervision of nursing students in a nursing facility or unit, geriatrics department, chronic care hospital, home care, or other long-term care setting.

 

All faculty members are encouraged to be members of and participate in professional education and nursing organizations

ROLES and RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for ensuring successful academic and personal development of nurse aide students through classroom, lab, and clinical instruction
• Provides classroom and/or clinical instruction utilizing various and appropriate teaching strategies
• Creates an environment that is student-centered which fosters academic growth and guidance of professional development
• Encourages a culture of learning that values mutual responsibility and respect, life-long learning and ethics as well as personal and professional development
• Develop, implement, and evaluate the philosophy and objectives of the nursing education program
• Design, implement, teach, evaluate, and revise the curriculum.
• Develop and evaluate student progress within the VCTC framework
• Serve as a resource to faculty, students, administration, and community
• Demonstrate positive and model behaviors expected by a professional nurse and educator
• Completes and submits all continuing education units/hours to program director upon completion
  Participates and documents activities in faculty meetings, professional learning communities, HOSA activities, and completion ceremony

 

Salary based on a 220 day, 7.5 hours day teacher contract scale.   Qualified candidates should submit an on-line application (www.augusta.k12.va.us) and attach a resume.  Position open until filled.    For more information, contact:

 

Lee Ann Whitesell, Director

Shenandoah Valley Center for Advanced Learning

49 Hornet Road Fishersville, VA  22939

whiteselll@valleytech.us  

 

Fax: 540-885-0407

 

VALLEY CAREER & TECHNICAL CENTER IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER