Job Details

Department: Continuing Education & Workforce Development

Hourly Rate: $32.25

General Statement of Job

The Continuing Education Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) Trainer instructs students in Continuing Education CNA courses for the development of specialized occupational theory, skills, and concepts essential to provide basic care to patients. Including patient's rights, communication, safety, observation, reporting, and assisting residents by helping them maintain basic comfort and safety.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Instruct students in Continuing Education courses related to CNA as directed by supervisor.
• Implements educational curriculum to ensure student success.
• Evaluates and optimizes educational curriculum.
• Motivate students to attend class, learn, and be successful.
• Creates individual educational plans to support timely coursework completion; ensures that students complete their individual educational plan in a timely manner.
• Maintains student and class records.
• Tracks student attendance.
• Assesses students' academic performance.
• Completes and submits course documentation when due.
• Informs Coordinators of students not meeting attendance and academic goals and/or not complying with behavior expectations.
• Inform Coordinators of support services for students.
• Maintains a positive, productive classroom and handles behavior problems effectively.
• Communicate with students, staff and peers in a professional, respectful, and constructive manner.
• Conducts sponsor-teacher conferences.
• Travels throughout the College district, as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Minimum of two (2) years of nursing experience in any healthcare setting
• Experience in teaching adult students or supervising nurse aids.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize, organize, and complete multiple tasks with attention to detail, within stated deadlines.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
• Ability to work evenings and/or weekends as needed; willing to travel throughout the college district using own means of reliable transportation.
• Demonstrated commitment to achieving the vision and mission of South Texas College.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Ability to apply practical understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Checks, Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Security Sensitive position: All applicants are subject to a criminal background check under South Texas College policy.
• Must have or qualify for a valid Texas driver's license and proof of liability insurance.

Physical Requirements

• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force to move objects.
• Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Mobility to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.