Job Details

Responsibilities: This dual role position focuses on student success as faculty teaching Respiratory therapy subject matter in the Respiratory therapy program. Additionally, as Director of Clinical Education (DCE) this individual must provide effective leadership in developing, conducting, and ongoing assessment of the clinical education program.  Specific responsibilities for Faculty and DCE are as follows:
Faculty responsibilities: 

• Teach subject content
• Continually evaluate and refine course content for revisions of current evidence-based practices, and scope of practice guidelines
• Develop course assessments that will accurately measure achievement of student learning outcomes and participate in assessment of student learning 
• Collaborate with respiratory therapy faculty/Program Director in areas of teaching, curriculum development and revision
• Identify teaching and lab materials for assigned courses
• Identify at-risk students and implement success resources to maximize student retention and progression
• Creatively plan and implement remediation strategies for student success
• Develop and implement simulation into learning curriculum and remediation
• Develop and maintain course materials in the College’s Learning Management System (LMS), including, but not limited to, announcements, syllabus, and gradebook. 
• Keep gradebook up to date and submit final grades by published deadlines.
• Hold office hours per collective bargaining agreement and needs of the department.
• Actively participate in area and college committees and perform related duties and activities necessary to conduct the work of the area.
• Perform periodic program reviews and maintain assessment records as required by college for Higher learning Commission (HLC) under the supervision of the Associate Dean of Health and Human Services and collaboratively with the Respiratory therapy program staff.
• Collaborate with Respiratory therapy (PD) in maintenance of Respiratory therapy program Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) under the supervision of the Associate Dean of Health and Human Services
• Serve as resource and mentor for all faculty; full time, and adjunct/part time
• Evaluate adjunct faculty in collaboration with RT PD and Associate Dean of Health and Human Services
• Responsible for collaborating with Respiratory Therapy PD and Associate Dean of Health and Human Services on community engagement activities
• Other duties as assigned in compliance with the MCCFO collective bargaining agreement.

• Organization, development and administration of the clinical curriculum
• Planning for, acquisition of, and communication with, locations needed for development of evolving practice skills
• Ensuring that appropriate supervision/assessment of students is available at all clinical sites
• Ongoing assessment of the overall effectiveness of the clinical training for all students
• Work with the PD to ensure that student clinical exposures are coordinated with their didactic and laboratory education
• Assist in identifying and facilitating student clinical experiences
• Oversight of clinical education contractual agreements
• Frequent, regular, personal, and consistent contact with students, clinical faculty/preceptors, and clinical affiliates in all program locations
• Manage data of student performance at clinical sites, student assessments of clinical sites and preceptors, information from clinical sites regarding student behavior
• Maintain current knowledge of health care changes affecting clinical practice and education
• Provision of dates for each clinical education experience
• Program requests from clinical education site regarding the number and type of available student clinical placements
• Ensure that all clinical preceptors and students are in compliance with the site-specific requirements for the site to which they are assigned 
• Provide program and clinical specific training to clinical preceptors and students
• Maintain proper training/assessment of preceptors and revise as needed per program changes or clinical evaluations

Minimum of Baccalaureate degree in Respiratory Therapy or related field from institution accredited by an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education (USDE).

Experiential Background:

• Current registration as respiratory therapist with at least 4 years’ experience in respiratory care of which 2 years has been spent in teaching in an accredited respiratory care program.
• Knowledge of the respiratory therapist accreditation process, CoARC
• At least 2 years of experience teaching Respiratory therapy courses is preferred

• Documentation of valid Registered Respiratory Therapy (RRT) license through State of Michigan