"EMS Instructor"

Job Description

This Instructor is responsible for the instruction and management of clinical/practicum experiences, didactic teaching, and laboratory teaching of assigned classes. This position takes direction from EMS Program Director regarding EMS instructional duties. This position also will assist with college-wide safety processes and procedures (under the direction of the Director of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness). Other major responsibilities include participating in department and college-wide committees and assignments. This position is governed by state and federal laws and institution policy.

• Supervisor: Dean of Health Science
• Department: Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Program
• Job type: This is a full-time 12-month position. The hours vary and requires day, evening, and weekend hours.

Salary: Annual salary of $52,000. Plus, excellent benefit package

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Essential functions
  • For all assigned didactic, laboratory, and clinical courses provide instruction, student supervision, and timely assessment of the students progress in meeting program requirements.
  • Teach EMS coursework.
  • Provide leadership for course coordination.
  • Collaborates with EMS program director regarding clinical site needs and management.
  • Assists with evaluation of clinical sites depending on program need and completes all clinical affiliation agreements and paperwork as required.
  • Collaborates with clinical sites regarding orientation and training of field preceptors to EMS learning outcomes and requirements.
  • Assists with oversight and the monitoring of students progression in clinical, field experience, and capstone field internship experiences.
  • Assists EMS program director with instructional and administrative tasks as requested.
  • Assists with program compliance with Arkansas Department of Health, Section of EMS & Trauma Systems Rules & Regulations, and the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician certification in National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician testing.
  • Assists EMS Program Director with continued compliance with all Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) and The Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions (CoAEMSP) Regulations.
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills and ability to integrate new technology in instruction and skill lab settings.
  • Provide instruction through in-person and distance education formats.
  • Assists EMS program director and may coordinate skills lab and scheduling as requested.
  • Ability to work with a variety populations.
  • Interface and work with program and institution faculty and staff.
  • Interface and work with community and clinical partners.
  • Assist and work with EMS and SouthArk faculty as needed or directed.
  • Mentor EMS instructors, as appropriate.
  • Complete master and course syllabi for assigned courses.
  • Provide instruction through in-person and distance education formats.
  • Retain and remediate students, as appropriate, for student completion of EMS academic programs. (includes, but is not limited to: advising of students).
  • Recruitment of students for EMS programs.
  • Maintain professionalism within their specialized field, including currency and required certifications and credentials.
  • All other tasks as requested by the EMS program director and division dean.
  • Coordinate medical emergency response with campus police, facilities management, health services, and local emergency services.
  • Work with student groups, faculty, and staff to improve medical emergency readiness and provide training.
  • Attend relevant campus safety committee meetings and participate in regional emergency planning groups.
  • Develop and maintain the campus medical emergency policies and procedures.
• Non-essential functions
  • Advise non-program students regarding program requirements.
  • Provide EMS academic support for community partners.
• Travel
  • Local and regional travel to community and clinical partner facilities.
  • Local and regional travel to off-campus educational/learning experiences.
  • Drive EMS Program ambulance during educational experiences.

Skills and Abilities:

• Skills
  • Basic computer skills needed to use a learning management system and Microsoft Suite products.
  • Be able to perform EMT and Paramedic patient assessment, monitoring, and intervention management techniques.
  • Manipulate, operate, and maintain typical equipment used in EMS.
  • Communicate verbally and in written methods with an interdisciplinary healthcare team, administrators, patient, and care partners.
• Abilities
  • Knowledge of current Paramedic theoretical and practical professional information.
  • Knowledge of current ethical and professional standards for field of EMS.
  • Perform multiple tasks within a classroom, laboratory, clinical practicum site, ambulance, and other typical emergency medicine spaces within one work shift as well as over a long-term period of time.
  • Executive functioning skills needed to identify, analyze, and complete complex learning and EMS related situations.
  • Executive cognitive functions to plan, organize, teach, and evaluate students both in didactic and clinical situations.
  • Emotional regulation to manage self and multiple situations within a short period of time and maintain self to complete tasks and duties over an extended period of time.
  • Teach others with various learning styles and instructional needs.
  • Ability to work in:
    • Classroom, skills laboratory, ambulance (stationary and moving), simulation laboratory.
    • On and off campus buildings, inside and outside spaces, clinical affiliation agencies, public community areas, emergency vehicles.
    • Physical spaces, inside and outside, with numerous and complex activities and situations, as well as with numerous individuals.

Required Education and Experience:

• Associate Degree in EMS from an accredited institution of higher education recognized by the U. S. Department of Education. Must be a paramedic.
• Must be a licensed EMS instructor, or have the ability to secure this license within three months of hire.
• Minimum two years experience in emergency medical services as a paramedic.
• Current, active, and unencumbered state license and national registration as a paramedic.
• Possess knowledge of the curriculum and about the programs evaluation of student learning and performance.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Bachelor Degree in EMS from an accredited institution of higher education recognized by the U. S. Department of Education.. Must be a paramedic.
• Must be a licensed EMS instructor, or have the ability to secure this license within three months of hire.
• Three years experience in emergency medical services as a paramedic.
• Current, active, and unencumbered state license and national registration as a paramedic.
• Possess knowledge of the curriculum and about the programs evaluation of student learning and performance.

Physical Requirements:

• Stand and sit for long periods of time.
• Move, squat, reach, bend, push, pull, lift

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