Medical Assistance Instructor

Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Faculty members are responsible for the delivery of quality education services. This entails engaging students, fostering learning, role modeling professionalism, and ultimately producing competently trained students prepared for professional careers. The Medical Assisting Instructor will provide up to date and fully prepared instruction to medical assisting students in an energetically and motivating instructional manner along with engaging in activities in student retention and manages the classroom/lab activities. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare course plans and materials
• Delivering course lectures
• Facilitating student engagement 
• Working one-on-one with students 
• Assessing students and providing developmental feedback
• Deliver courses
• Deliver lectures/facilitate labs via on ground or online
• Grade projects and exams
• Provide progress reports/mid-term feedback
• Maintain grade book
• Enforce HCI policies (attendance, dress code, etc.)
• Monitor progress and attendance 
• Direct and assess student progress in achieving theory (content: cognitive) and performance (competencies: psychomotor and affective) requirement of the program
• Monitor student progress and follow-up as needed 
• Take and report daily attendance and enforce tardy and absence policies 
• Report attendance issues to the Program Director 
• Advise students
• Answer student questions
• Be available for one-on-one assistance/tutoring
• Identify at-risk students in a timely fashion
• implement an action plan for success
• provide weekly assessments, follow up, and evaluation of the plan
• provide End of Week Report (EOW) to the PD, Dean, VPAA, and CP
• Record grades and submit reports
• Maintain grade books
• Adhere to departmental grading policies
• Submit final grades
• Monitor equipment and supply needs
• Maintain classroom
• Maintain any relevant professional development activities which can include licensures and certifications
• Seek out an approved substitute in case of faculty member’s need for absence
• Participate in orientation as needed
• Graduation, and pinning ceremonies (Full-time staff required)
• Work on retention plans and program development
• Attend staff and faculty meeting (Full-time staff required and part-time requested)
• Participate in committees and knowledge sharing forums (Full-time required and part-time requested)
• Any other duties as requested 
• Ensure the proper use of software 
• Course Key for attendance records
• Campus Nexus for communication and contact attempts with students 
• Weekly feedback reports 
• Moodle for gradebook purposes 

WORKLOAD EXPECTATIONS:

Workload is dependent upon the faculty classification. 

• Faculty will start and end on time for assigned courses and lab hours
• Faculty must inform the PD if their assignment will provide overtime
• Must be able to teach either face to face or online with students in any of the following areas, as driven by cohort needs: 
• Didactic/classroom instruction
• Lab/Simulation/Active Learning experiences
• Full-Time Faculty are required to:
• Attend meetings
• Participate in accreditation
• Serve on committees
• Other duties as assigned
• Part-Time Faculty as requested: 
• Attend meetings
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES/QUALIFICATIONS:

At HCI, faculty delivers courses that are part of standard academic programs. Faculty Members are responsible for ensuring a quality education for students in their course and programs. 

All faculty should, at a minimum, have the degree required for the specific discipline and have experience and appropriate credentials in their relevant area of academia according to CIE, ACCSC, and other governing bodies:

• A minimum of an earned Associates degree with a major in any area of health sciences from an accredited program. 
• Faculty must have a minimum of three (3) years of related practical work experience in the subject area(s) taught (per ACCSC).
• Currently certified in Medical Assisting (CMA, CCMA, RMA) and in active status

In addition:

• All faculty will be knowledgeable in the course content
• All faculty will be effective in directing and evaluating student learning and lab performance
• All faculty will be prepared in Educational Theory and Techniques.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

The physical demands are those required in a professional office setting and higher education teaching environment, along with activities of a medical assistant: communicating with coworkers, presenting to a classroom of students, demonstrating procedures and techniques, and getting to and from appropriate classes and offices.  

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Professional office setting and clinical/lab environments: moderate noise levels; controlled indoor climate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.  

LOCATION:

• This position is held onsite including the online portion as determined by the Program Director and Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA).  

Any changes must be reviewed by the VPAA, Campus President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and all final approvals must come from the CEO and/or VPAA.