Medical Assisting Adjunct Faculty Instructor (Tampa)

About the role

We are seeking Medical Assisting Adjunct Faculty Instructor to facilitate in-person, clinical skills labs and weekly virtual live classes using Zoom at our Tampa Campus on weekday afternoons and/or evenings.

Responsibilities

• Establish relationships and a safe learning environment
• Dedicate time to getting to know your students and how they best learn
• Make your expectations clear regarding student behavior by consistently sharing and enforcing expectations in synchronous sessions
• Use inclusive and supportive language that honors your students' identities and assumes the best in their actions
• Deliver excellent and engaging synchronous sessions-daytime and evening instructor needed
• Deliver two, 2-hour Zoom-based synchronous (live) classes a week with your students to develop clinical skills and build on/reiterate recent learning in the program
• Empower students to develop competency by sharing a passion and expertise for the medical assistant profession and its competencies and skills
• Leverage a variety of active learning activities that ensure learners are doing something beyond listening (i.e. skill practice, discussions, role plays, simulations, games)
• Build in strategies to check for the understanding of all learners in your class (i.e. share out, zoom chat, polls, google doc note takers)
• Demonstrate fluent use of your teaching tools
• Support learners in navigating D2L and the course textbook
• Communicate and provide feedback frequently
• Grade students work every week to ensure students maintain a clear understanding of their academic progress
• Log in to D2L and respond to your NLU email every business day
• Post announcements twice a week clarifying learners’ expectations, sharing lecture recordings, and providing encouragement/updates
• Provide written feedback on all assignment submissions highlighting strengths and specific details on how to improve
• Implement and orchestrate differentiated supports
• Review your class progress and grades data weekly to identify students who are in need of additional support, and reach out to those students to ensure they are aware of their status and the supports available to them
• Engage in weekly 1-on-1s with students’ career coach, providing updated course grades and attendance information for each student, and collaborating to make a plan of support for every student who is falling behind
• Communicate high expectations and high confidence in students and their ability to complete the program and become great medical assistants
• Commit to continuous improvement of self and colleagues (i.e., professional development)
• Engage in weekly adjunct faculty meetings with Accelerate U staff and other instructors to build your skills as an online instructor and prepare for upcoming program milestones
• Share feedback with the Accelerate U staff on opportunities for improving the design of the Medical Assisting program

Qualifications

• Available to teach on weekday afternoons and/or evenings
• At least three (3) years’ work experience in Allied Health; medical assisting preferred
• At least two (2) years of teaching experience with knowledge of course development, instruction, evaluation, and academic advising
• Online teaching experience preferred
• Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) credential from National Healthcareer Association (NHA) credential
• At least seven (7) years of experience in an Allied Health field; Bachelor’s Degree in related healthcare field preferred
• Experience with digital tools for teaching, teaching in either online or blended/hybrid formats, and teaching to students of diverse backgrounds and abilities strongly preferred
• CPR certified at the level of Health Care Provider through the American Heart Association and be able to competently administer CPR