Part-time, Faculty - Medical Assisting

Allan Hancock College; Santa Maria (CA); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 118,000; Part time

Job summary

Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, CA, seeks qualified individuals to join its Medical Assistant program as part-time faculty for in-person or online instruction. Assignments may occur at the Santa Maria campus, Lompoc Valley Center, or online, with potential openings for the Spring semester.

The college emphasizes diversity and equal opportunity, and maintains high professional standards, including nursing licensure and health requirements for faculty, to support student success.

Qualifications

• Active California Registered Nurse license.
• Minimum Qualifications for Faculty in the California Community Colleges.
• Associate degree and six years full-time experience as a Registered Nurse.
• OR the equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Teach one or more MA program courses (in-person, at Santa Maria campus, Lompoc Valley Center, or online).
• Evaluate and advise students.
• Provide instruction per the program-approved curriculum.
• Teach as scheduled and maintain accurate records.
• Maintain professional conduct and ethics standards.
• Keep current knowledge and clinical skills in subject areas.
• Fulfill responsibilities of a part-time/temporary faculty member.
• Meet current health care facility requirements including vaccinations, TB testing, etc.

Education

Associate degree + six years RN experience

Minimum Qualifications for Faculty in the California Community Colleges

Job description

Position Summary

The Medical Assistant program at Allan Hancock College is seeking applications to develop a qualified pool of part-time faculty for in-person or online instructional vacancies. The assignment may include classes at the Santa Maria campus, Lompoc Valley Center, or online, as needed. Positions may be available during the Spring semester.

At Allan Hancock College, we believe that cultivating an environment that embraces and promotes diversity is fundamental to the success of our students, our employees, and our community. Bringing people together from different backgrounds, experiences, and value systems fosters innovative and creative thinking that exemplifies Hancock's values of free inquiry, cultural and intellectual diversity, mutual respect, civic engagement, and social and environmental responsibility. Hancock's commitment to diversity informs our efforts in recruitment, hiring, and retention. Allan Hancock College is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

Essential Functions and Qualifications

The teaching assignment will include one or more courses offered in the program, such as:

Theory:

1. Fall - Body Systems & Disease, MA Fundamentals, and MA Clinical Procedures 1
2. Spring - MA Pharmacology, MA Clinical Procedures 2, and MA Job Success Externship
3. The instructor will evaluate and advise students
4. Provide instruction in accordance with the program-approved curriculum
5. Teach classes as scheduled. Maintain accurate records
6. Maintain appropriate standards of professional conduct and ethics
7. Maintain current knowledge and clinical skills in the subject matter areas
8. Maintain a current nursing licensure
9. Fulfill the professional responsibility of a part-time/temporary faculty member
10. Maintain current health care facility requirements including but not limited to vaccinations, TB testing, etc.

• Evidence of a sensitivity to and an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of staff and students and to staff and students' disabilities.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and use resource materials and incorporate current computer technology and to use multi-media technology in classroom instruction.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, organize, and present lecture and lesson materials and concepts and to assess student achievement.
• Demonstrated ability to design, review, and evaluate curriculum and make recommendations to maintain program currency for both vocational and transfer students.
• Demonstrate ability to identify and use learning outcomes and assessment that lead to course program improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to work with and assist students having a broad range of skills, motivation, academic or vocational goals.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written communication and to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others.
• Demonstrated experience implementing the interrelationship of critical thinking, reading, and writing.
• Knowledge of diverse learning styles and teaching strategies and demonstrated experience in implementing these strategies.

Minimum Qualifications

• Active California Registered Nurse license
• Minimum Qualifications for Faculty in the California Community Colleges
• Associate degree and six years full-time experience as a Registered Nurse

OR the equivalent.

Additional Information

• Lecture Rate: $56.46 to $86.44 per hour depending upon education and experience

Allan Hancock College provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Hancock College will not sponsor any visa applications.