Vocational Nursing Instructor - Full Time Days

Unitek Learning; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision starting 1s

2 Weeks Vacation

401K with Company Match

Company Paid Life Insurance

Tuition assistance

Leadership development

Career advancement

Job summary

Unitek Learning in California is seeking a full-time nursing instructor for the LVN program, teaching Monday-Friday with no prior teaching experience required. You will guide students in lecture, lab, and clinical settings, uphold accreditation standards, and stay current with clinical practices and safety regulations.

This role offers competitive benefits, tuition assistance, and growth opportunities within a mission-driven healthcare education organization.

Qualifications

• Licensed to teach in the state you are applying to teach.
• Bachelor's degree with 3 years of nursing experience OR Associate's degree with 6 years of nursing experience and recent bedside experience.
• Meets the faculty requirements set by the Board of Vocational Nursing.
• Demonstrates current nursing knowledge and ability to mentor students.
• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively in classroom, lab, and clinical settings.
• Maintains immunizations and Basic Life Support certification.

Responsibilities

• Improve instruction quality by reviewing and applying teaching methods.
• Utilize online activities to enhance course content.
• Review and revise course syllabus per program guidelines.
• Submit required reports to the Director in a timely manner.
• Keep current with nursing practices and safety regulations.
• Maintain student records and data in alignment with deadlines.
• Update clinical requirements and immunization records as needed.
• Teach courses at various times and locations as required by the program.
• Teach lectures and supervise clinical rotations, including evenings/weekends.
• Participate in professional development and committees as assigned.

Skills

Nurse licensure (RN/LVN)

Bedside nursing experience

Mentor students

Independent work

Nursing knowledge

Lab/clinical operations

Communication skills

Immunizations & BLS

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Associate Degree in Nursing

Job description

Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Company Description

As a leading healthcare education organization, Unitek Learning’s family of schools helps thousands of students launch and accelerate their careers every year. As a rapidly growing and highly successful company, Unitek is also a great place to pursue a rewarding and challenging career. We offer a competitive salary, generous benefits, unlimited growth potential, and a collegiate work environment.

Why Work for Unitek Learning? To be part of a healthcare revolution. There is plenty of demand from students who want to become nurses, and there is plenty of demand to hire highly skilled nurses. Unitek Learning is on a mission to fix the connection between those who want to become nurses and the communities who desperately need them. We graduate culturally competent and highly skilled nurses, and we do this at scale. We have history, stability and strong student outcomes. We need your experience and transfer of knowledge to make this vision come to life. Be a part of the solution.

We are looking for a full-time nursing instructor for our LVN program. This is a full-time position, teaching Monday-Friday. No prior teaching experience is required!

Job Description

• Make continuous efforts to improve quality of instruction by reviewing and utilizing different and innovative methodologies / techniques in teaching
• Demonstrate or willing to acquire skills for utilizing online activities as enhancers to course content/material during interactive teaching and learning
• Assist with reviewing and revising of syllabus for specific course within the program and instructional guidelines
• Submit required program reports and forms to Director of the program in a timely manner
• Keep current with new technologies and safety regulations
• Maintains student records of attendance, grades, and skills check-off forms and assist with program data collection that meet set due dates and deadlines
• Assists with updating and maintaining student files as relates to clinical requirements, immunizations and educational requirements
• Teach courses at a variety of times and locations in responds to program needs
• Teaches both lecture content and clinical rotations (clinical rotations can be days, and/or evenings, on week days and/or weekends)
• Participate in professional development; maintain CE hours to ensure renewed licensure, takes responsibility for staying current with college updates
• Actively participates in committees as assigned, based on availability, taking into consideration teaching responsibilities as priority

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse with current licensure in the state in which you are applying to teach
• Bachelors Degree with 3 years experience as a Nurse OR Associates Degree with 6 years experience as a Nurse. Must have recent bedside experience.
• Able to meet the faculty requirements set by the Board of Vocational Nursing
• Experience which demonstrates: Current knowledge of nursing practice; ability to mentor students in classroom, lab and clinical settings; ability to work independently without close supervision; broad knowledge of nursing sciences; successful handling of day to day operations in the nursing lab; proficient, strong communications skills verbal and written; current knowledge/experience in clinical setting
• Current immunizations and Basic Life Support Certification

Additional Information

We Offer

• Medical, Dental and Vision starting the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
• 2 Weeks’ starting Vacation per year. Increasing based on years of service with company
• 12 paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holiday
• 401K with a Company Match
• Company Paid Life Insurance at 1x’s your annual salary
• Leadership development and training for career advancement
• Tuition assistance and Forgiveness for you and your family up to 100% depending on program

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Pay: $100-$105k depending upon experience