9 month-Teaching Faculty-Respiratory Therapy

Title 9 month-Teaching Faculty-Respiratory Therapy

Agency Northern VA Community College

Location Fairfax County - 059

FLSA Exempt

Hiring Range Please see Additional Considerations section for more information.

Full Time or Part Time Full Time

Additional Detail

Job Description

General Description

The primary responsibility of a faculty member at Northern Virginia Community College is to provide quality instruction for the learners in the didactic and clinical environments. The major emphasis is on excellent teaching by working with learners in classrooms laboratories individually in simulations and in the clinical setting. Faculty help learners develop their interests and abilities to their fullest capacity to become better workers and better citizens.

Duties and Tasks

Full-time teaching faculty in Respiratory Therapy are responsible for teaching various didactic and laboratory courses and be qualified to do clinical rotations with the learners in local hospitals and health care facilities.

Courses are offered in traditional hybrid formats and may offer distance learning opportunities.

All faculty members must be available to teach day evening and weekend classes.

Faculty members also serve as faculty advisors serve on divisioncampuscollege committees and participate in curriculum development and assessment. This appointment has a normal teaching load of 15 credits per semester.

As a part of this primary responsibility the College expects each faculty member to meet assigned classes regularly submit required records and reports routinely teach the prescribed courses of study with the established texts conduct requisite student conferences hold required office hours attend to assigned divisional and college duties contribute to the development of the program of instruction adhere to the statement on professional ethics in accordance with college policies procedures and regulations answer emails in a responsible fashion maintain current competence in the particular discipline or field of specialization and advise students.

Minimum Qualifications

KSAs

The ability to effectively teach classroom lab and clinical components of Respiratory Therapy Program.

Ability to use technology to enhance classroom instruction. Ability to use on-line resources and the current LMS.

Excellent interpersonal analytical and oralwritten communication skills.

Teach material from approved curriculum in accordance with assigned schedule

Be creative innovative and possess good problem-solving skills.

Have good organizational skills and ability to complete assignments on time and accurately with minimal supervision.

Must be proficient with MS Office Power Point and using the Internet.

Teach classroom lab and clinical components of Respiratory Therapy Program that include but are not limited to pharmacology hemodynamics respiratory physiology respiratory mechanics and pulmonary functions.

Work collaboratively with fellow faculty to enrich faculty and student knowledge in the field of Respiratory Care which will foster growth toward future goals and objectives of the program and the college. This may be accomplished through meetings conferences and off campus activities after classroomclinical hours.

Obtain the appropriate certifications to teach with alternate formats as required i.e. hybrid and online.

Be engaged in academia including participation in graduation recruitment events promotional events student life and interprofessional activities.

Perform ongoing assessment of learners using formative and summative evaluation tools.

Use input from course evaluations in addition to other tools to update courses to meet program and student learning outcomes.

Seek high-quality best practices in instruction for the education of the Respiratory Therapy learners

Model behaviors that encourage student success and retention.

Provide and maintain reliable office hours for student advising tutoring remediation and consultation.

Mentor andor orient new classroom and clinical faculty as assigned.

Be sensitive to and understand the Colleges faculty staff and learners diverse academic socioeconomic cultural and ethnic backgrounds

Ability to balance teaching responsibilities with program administration.

Working knowledge and ability to effectively act as liaison between college and the clinical affiliates.

Knowledge of the National Board for Respiratory Care NBRC procedures and regulations.

Required Qualifications

Associate degree in the teaching field with demonstrated competencies. Qualifying degree must have been awarded by a regionally accredited institution whose respiratory therapy program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care CoARC.

Active unexpired Registered Respiratory Therapist RRT awarded by the National Board for Respiratory Care NBRC is required as a condition for hire and for continued employment if hired.

Active unexpired Commonwealth of Virginia licensure as a respiratory therapist with no restrictions is required as a condition for hire and for continued employment if hired. If current licensure is with another state or is not active then you must be able obtain or renew licensure with the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Two 2 years of full-time occupational experience in clinical respiratory care as a Registered Respiratory Therapist RRT. Part-time experience will be converted to its full-time equivalent.

Two 2 years experience teaching either as an appointed faculty member in a CoARC-accredited respiratory care program or as a clinical instructor preceptor for students of such programs.

Additional Considerations

Desired Qualifications

Bachelors degree or higher awarded by a regionally accredited institution.

Neonatal Pediatric Specialist NPS Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist RPFT or Adult Critical Care Specialty ACCS awarded by the National Board for Respiratory Care.

Four 4 years or more of experience as a registered respiratory therapist.

Experience with and preparation for teaching culturally linguistically socio-economically and academically diverse learners at the college-level.

Certification andor experience in teaching hybrid or online courses.

Hiring Range

Starting salary is commensurate based on education experience and other appropriately qualifying factors within assigned rank and will fall within the specified hiring range for the assigned rank. Rank is determined by education and academic teaching experience. The hiring ranges for each rank is as follows Instructor 63000 to 84000 and Assistant Professor 72000 to 88000.