About the Role
The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is dedicated to developing professional health care practitioners through innovative, individualized, and quality education. Lab Instructors play a key role in organizing and maintaining equipment, preparing the lab environment, monitoring student progress, and facilitating learning activities.
Responsibilities
- Prepares lab environment
- Organizes and maintains equipment; proposes equipment orders as needed
- Teaches lab component of course
- Monitors student progress; gives feedback; facilitates student participation in learning activities
- Assesses student performance on practical, oral, written examinations
- Supervises lab assistants (when available)
- Reports student grades at end of term to lead instructor
- Communicates with lead instructor to ensure consistent content and testing and to recommend changes for upcoming semester
- Serves as student-to-university liaison
- Upholds student and part-time faculty handbook policies
- Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors inside and outside the classroom setting
- Self-evaluates teaching performance; sets goals for improvement
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher
- Prior practical hands-on experience in patient care setting in chosen specialization preferred
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Excellent oral communication skills
- Professional role model
- Able to provide a nurturing, respectful learning environment
- Responsive to distance education, adult student needs
- Working knowledge of educational theory and motor skill development
- Able to work in a team environment
- Licensed occupational, physical, or speech therapist from an accredited university with demonstrated expertise in the area being taught
- Current certification with state board of chosen specialization
Skills
- Oral communication
- Organizational skills
- Teamwork
- Educational theory
- Motor skill development
Work Type
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level master’s degree or higher
- At least 2 years of practical hands-on experience
Education Level
- Master's degree or higher
Salary/Compensations
- Compensation is a reasonable estimate and will be determined based on years of clinical and teaching experience.
Benefits
- Differential payment of $10 per hour for Flex program with weekend labs
About the Company
- The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.
