Adjunct Faculty

Oklahoma Baptist University; Shawnee (OK); Hybrid; USD 2,000 - 5,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel expenses covered

Hybrid teaching model

Labs and immersion travel 3–5 days

Job summary

Oklahoma Baptist University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program seeks experienced physical therapists to join as adjunct faculty. You need not live near the university; travel expenses are covered.

Bring clinical reasoning, patient experiences, and practical wisdom into the classroom, shaping future clinicians. As adjunct faculty, you will work with core faculty during on-campus lab immersions, helping students translate knowledge into hands-on skills.

Qualifications

• DPT degree required and current PT license.
• Excellent communication and collaborative teaching ability.
• Willingness to travel for scheduled laboratory immersions (3–5 days).
• Experience in clinical education or adjunct teaching is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist with on-campus lab immersions and clinical instruction.
• Help students integrate theory with hands-on patient care.
• Contribute to the development of clinical reasoning and skills in students.
• Travel to campus for labs as part of the hybrid DPT model.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to travel for lab immersions

Commitment to student success and team

Education

Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree

Job description

Bring Your Clinical Expertise Into the Classroom

Have you ever considered how your experience as a clinician could shape the next generation of physical therapists? The Oklahoma Baptist University Doctor of Physical Therapy Program is seeking experienced physical therapists who are interested in expanding their professional impact by serving as adjunct faculty. You do not need to live near the University, and travel expenses are covered by the program. This is an opportunity to bring the clinical reasoning, patient experiences, and practical wisdom you use every day into an academic environment where those experiences can make a lasting difference for future clinicians.

Adjunct faculty play an important role in helping students make the critical transition from knowing the content to thinking and performing like a physical therapist. Working alongside core faculty during on-campus lab immersions, adjunct faculty help students develop hands-on skills, strengthen clinical reasoning, integrate classroom learning with patient care, and build confidence in applying what they have learned. Whether your expertise is in acute care, neurologic rehabilitation, cardiopulmonary practice, pediatrics, orthopedics, or another area of physical therapy, your clinical experience can provide students with the authentic perspective that only a practicing clinician can bring.

You do not have to leave clinical practice to begin exploring a role in physical therapy education. Adjunct teaching can be an excellent entry point for clinicians who enjoy mentoring students, serving as clinical instructors, developing colleagues, or simply sharing their passion for the profession. OBU's hybrid DPT model provides the opportunity to contribute to student learning while maintaining your clinical career, with required travel to campus for scheduled lab immersions, which are 3-5 days in length, depending on the course.

As a Christian university, OBU seeks faculty members who support its faith-based educational mission. Adjunct faculty must be members of an evangelical Christian church, with evangelical broadly defined as a Christian tradition affirming the authority of the Bible and salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

If you have ever thought, “I might enjoy teaching someday,” this may be the opportunity to take that first step. Your experience has already shaped the patients and clinicians around you—consider how it might also shape the physical therapists who come next.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree.


• Current unrestricted PT license.


• Minimum one year of contemporary applicable clinical practice, expertise in assigned content area.


• Excellent communication skills.


• Ability to travel for assigned laboratory immersions.


• Commitment to student success and collaborative teaching.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ABPTS Board Certification (OCS, NCS, SCS, GCS, PCS, WCS, CCS, ECS) or other specialty certification.


• Residency and/or Fellowship training.


• Prior teaching experience in DPT education.


• Experience in hybrid or online graduate education.


• Expertise in simulation and clinical reasoning.