# Prelicensure Clinical Instructor **Company**: Western Governors University (WGU) **Location**: Houston, TX **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $80,700.00 - $121,000.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Education **Apply**: https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Houston-TX/Onsite-Instructor--Prelicensure-Clinical---Houston--TX---Full-Time_JR-025338?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c7a6530d-4bd ## Description We are seeking a Prelicensure Clinical Instructor to join our team in the Houston, TX region. As a Clinical Instructor, you will teach and mentor students in experiential clinical coursework, working on a team to support an assigned group of students and offering specialized instruction on challenging clinical coursework. **Essential Functions and Responsibilities:** - Act as a steward for carrying out WGU's mission and strategic vision - Demonstrate a high level of commitment, effectiveness, and consistency - Serve as a professional role model for students in communication, ethical comportment, and problem-solving - Provide expertise in an assigned content area and maintain current knowledge in their field - Foster students' learning through innovative teaching practices - Respond with urgency to meet student needs and communicate professionally and respectfully with students and all other members of the WGU community - Make appropriate student referrals for remediation or other needs - Communicate with the student's assigned coach/preceptor as needed to discuss student progress and concerns - Provide final review and approval for student's clinical time - Offer proactive support and outreach to assigned students - Use technology-based teaching and communication platforms to aid students in the development of competencies - Submit electronic clinical student evaluation forms after completion of clinical intensive - Collaborate with other professionals within the university to promote a positive, student-obsessed atmosphere - Respond with urgency to changing requirements, priorities, and short deadlines - Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of relevant state regulations - Conduct both in-person and remote methods of student evaluation **Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:** - Must be able to work well under stress and meet deadlines - Capacity for self-motivation and working independently - Strong written and verbal communication skills - Aptitude for learning innovative technology - Problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills, accuracy, adaptability, reliability, attitude, initiative **Competencies:** - Organizational or Student Impact: Accountable for decisions that impact individual students, facilitates learning experiences that support student's attainment of knowledge and skills - Problem Solving & Decision Making: Works on diverse matters of various levels of complexity, receives general direction from their immediate supervisor or manager - Communication & Influence: Communicates with students as appropriate to support student questions and needs, communicates with fellow faculty members as appropriate - Leadership & Talent Management: Considered a contributing and collegial team member, adheres to learning and operational quality guidance and instruction **Job Qualifications:** - Master's degree in nursing; Education is verified - Two years minimum Nursing experience - Unencumbered RN license - Active, unencumbered license in designated state - State and federal legislative requirements and college accreditation requirements may apply to maintain the necessary credentialing for this role **Preferred Qualifications:** - Doctorate, or terminal degree in a specific content area - Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students - Prior experience in clinical teaching/nursing education **Physical Requirements:** - Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer - Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times **Benefits:** - Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare - Health savings account and flexible spending account - Basic and voluntary life insurance - Disability coverage - Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages - Legal and identity theft coverage - Retirement savings plan - Wellbeing program - Discounted WGU tuition - Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual - Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual - 11 paid holidays - Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave ## Skills ### Required - nursing - education - clinical instruction - communication - problem-solving ### Nice to have - distance education - clinical teaching - nursing education - terminal degree --- Source: [Apply at wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://wgu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Houston-TX/Onsite-Instructor--Prelicensure-Clinical---Houston--TX---Full-Time_JR-025338?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)