Director of Clinical Education Programs

Sun River Health; City of Beacon (NY); On-site; USD 113,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Sun River Health in Beacon, NY seeks a Director of Nursing Education Programs to lead the Practical Nursing Program, ensuring regulatory compliance, quality clinical experiences, and readiness of graduates for safe, compassionate entry-level nursing practice.

The role requires NY RN licensure, active CPR/BLS, a Master’s in nursing, and 3–5 years in practical nursing education with leadership experience.

Qualifications

• Current, unrestricted NY RN license; eligible to practice and teach.
• Active CPR/BLS certification.
• Master's degree in nursing.
• 3–5 years of progressive nursing experience in practical nursing education.
• Experience directing nursing programs or education leadership preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and administration for the Practical Nursing Program.
• Ensure compliance with state board regulations, accreditation standards, and laws.
• Serve as liaison with partner academic institutions; manage reports.
• Oversee curriculum, scheduling, clinical rotations, skills labs, simulations, and evaluations.
• Monitor enrollment, retention, graduation, licensure outcomes, and job placement.
• Lead quality-improvement using data to close gaps.
• Ensure clinical sites provide appropriate learning environments.
• Promote consistent grading, remediation, and progression.
• Prepare students for NCLEX-PN and safe practice.
• Collaborate with HR and clinical sites to coordinate student experiences.
• Coach faculty and preceptors in teaching and assessment.
• Plan workload and staffing for safe instruction.
• Maintain placement records and compliance.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Accreditation

Curriculum development

Clinical supervision

Data analysis

Communication

Collaboration

Program administration

Teaching/education

Education

Master's degree in nursing

Job description

Job Description

Position Overview

The Director of Nursing Education Programs provides strategic, academic, and operational leadership for the Practical Nursing Program. This role ensures program quality, regulatory and accreditation compliance, strong clinical learning experiences, and readiness of graduates for safe, compassionate, culturally responsive entry-level practical nursing practice.

Job Competencies

• Provide overall leadership, administration, and accountability for the Practical Nursing Program.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with state board of nursing regulations, institutional requirements, academic accreditation standards, and applicable federal and state laws.
• Serve as the primary liaison with partner academic institutions and maintain required program reports and compliance documentation.
• Oversee curriculum implementation, course sequencing, schedules, assignments, clinical rotations, skills-lab experiences, simulation activities, and student-learning evaluations.
• Monitor enrollment, retention, progression, graduation, licensure examination performance, job placement, and satisfaction outcomes.
• Lead continuous quality-improvement activities and use program and course-level data to identify gaps and implement improvement plans.
• Ensure clinical sites provide appropriate patient populations, learning opportunities, supervision conditions, and safe educational environments.
• Promote consistent grading, evaluation, remediation, and progression practices across classroom and clinical experiences.
• Ensure the program prepares students for the NCLEX-PN and a safe transition into practical nursing practice.
• Collaborate with Human Resources, academic partners, and clinical rotation sites to coordinate student experiences.
• Support and coach faculty and preceptors in clinical teaching, learner assessment, remediation, simulation, documentation, and educational technology.
• Participate in workload planning and recommend faculty and preceptor staffing levels needed for safe, compliant, high-quality instruction.
• Maintain clinical-placement records and related compliance requirements.
• May directly precept or supervise student clinical learning experiences, including laboratory simulation proctoring.

What You Bring

• Current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in New York, with eligibility to practice and teach.
• Active CPR/BLS
• Master's degree in nursing required.
• Three to five years of progressive nursing experience, including clinical practice relevant to practical nursing education.
• Prior experience as a nursing program director, assistant director, department chair, nursing faculty leader, or director of education preferred.
• Experience supervising faculty, staff, or interdisciplinary teams.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, interpersonal, and data-analysis skills.

Work Location

This position is based at the Beacon, NY health center and requires some travel to other regions for supervision and support.

Salary Range

$112,500/year - $135,000/year