Instructor - Maternal Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Instructors at WGU are subject matter experts who teach and support students enrolled in their assigned courses. As an Instructor, you will offer specialised instruction, monitor and support student progress, and collaborate with other faculty members to ensure continuity and quality of support.

Responsibilities:

• Develop instructional materials aligned with learning objectives and course competencies
• Provide effective and engaging virtual instruction to students
• Continually develop knowledge, skills, and expertise through active participation in faculty learning community and other developmental opportunities
• Provide proactive and timely virtual instruction to students
• Facilitate student communities to support peer collaboration and student development
• Provide one-to-one virtual coaching to help students achieve personal, academic, and career goals
• Adapt instructional and coaching practices to meet individual student needs
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Subject-matter expertise in Maternal Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
• Strong knowledge of how student characteristics interact with different learning needs
• Strong communication skills with the ability to moderate online student communities
• Ability to use information from student profiles, learning behaviours, and interactions to identify individual student needs
• Demonstrates respect for and value of diverse perspectives and experiences
• Ability to adapt standard resources, templates, and instructional plans for individual students or groups
• Ability to apply adult learning principles and instructional skills to build student competency in a virtual one-to-one setting
• Provide encouragement for student self-reflection and metacognition to improve competency in learning objectives
• Flexibility to adjust instructional approach depending on individual student needs and preferences
• Skilled at using data to identify students in need of proactive support
• Strong active listening skills and emotional intelligence with the ability to build relationships with adult students
• Solid understanding of coaching strategies to support personal, academic, and professional development in adult students
• Willingness to engage in regular self-reflection and re-evaluation of beliefs, perspectives, and approaches to improve equity
• Proficient in developing presentation materials that align to specified objectives and are visually engaging, understandable, and accessible
• Ability to develop learning facilitation experiences and effective, formative self-assessment activities aligned with specific objectives
• Skilled at implementing relationship-building activities for online student communities
• Ability to facilitate synchronous student interaction in a virtual environment

Minimum Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Nursing and all applicable licenses or certifications
• Active, unencumbered compact/multistate RN licensure
• 3 years of highly successful academic practice in the role area/practice working with Prelicensure or Undergraduate Nursing students
• Demonstrated subject matter expert in Maternal Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
• Recent clinical and didactic experience in subject matter within the past 5 years
• Available to work a student-centred schedule, including evenings and weekends
• Up to 20% travel required for role, including required attendance at designated company Summits

Preferred Qualifications:

• Terminal degree and all applicable domain-specified licenses or certifications
• Strong experience with distance education and distance learning students
• Demonstrated subject matter expert in Women's and Children's Nursing

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
• Flexible paid sick time
• 11 paid holidays
• Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave