Job Title: Lead Faculty – Vocational Nurse

Summary: The Lead Faculty is responsible for leveraging their expertise to develop, maintain, and deliver education services to students thru creating and maintaining core curriculum, ensuring delivery of core curriculum, preparing course plans and material, supervising staff and oversight of the VN Program. The VN Lead Faculty will monitor and manage student progress and attendance, student advising, and grade reporting. The VN Lead Faculty will also ensure continued compliance with Federal, State, and Institutional accreditation agencies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise and evaluate instructional staff.
• Direct advisory committee activities for program.
• Ensure compliance with all state and federal regulations. Ensures the consistent compliance with the regulations for the Texas Board of Nursing Examiners.
• Prepares and submits the required documents to the Texas Board of Nursing Examiners.
• Monitor instructor lesson plans and their posting.
• Screen instructional applicants.  Review curriculum and textbooks with instructors, program managers, advisory board, and Campus President.
• Review student evaluations of instructors and programs, externship evaluations, employer surveys, and graduate surveys with the DOE/EC, and Campus President.
• Interview prospective students during enrollment process as needed.
• Conduct new student orientation as needed.
• Review completion and placement rates with Director of Career Services and Campus President.
• Schedules and conducts in-service training.
• Develops annual start date calendar.
• Assist registrar in maintaining employee and student records.
• Monitor TWC, federal and accrediting standards compliance.
• Adheres to academic policies/procedures for compliance.
• Assist with new program development.
• Assist with student advising.
• Assist Director of Education/Education Coordination with administrative functions.
• Other duties as assigned

Education/Experience:

• Hold a current, unencumbered license to practice as a registered nurse in the State of Texas
• Actively employed in nursing for the past 5 years, preferably in teaching or administration, with one year teaching experience in a pre-licensure nursing education program.
• If not actively employed in nursing for the past five years, then advanced preparation in nursing, nursing education, and nursing administration and prior relevant nursing employment may be taken into consideration.

Minimum of a BSN in nursing, Master's degree in nursing preferred, with a minimum of one to two year teaching experience in a vocational or professional nursing program. Strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven leadership and management skills along with current nursing practice experience.