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Front Range Community College Nursing Coordinator in Fort Collins, Colorado
GENERAL SUMMARY:
Who We Are
With three campuses along Colorado s Front Range, Front Range Community College is the state s largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.
Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities. FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the Top Online Colleges in the country by Newsweek.
One of FRCC s main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college s strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.
The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.
FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We re looking to hire people who share these values along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.
Who You Are
As the Nursing Coordinator, you will interface with students, faculty, and staff to maintain clinical contracts and ensure that students have met the requirements for clinical rotations for all Nursing and Nurse Aide programs on the Larimer Campus. You will collaborate with the administrative assistant, faculty, and program directors to ensure student compliance documents are current by required deadlines. You will assist students in trouble shooting and problem solving for barriers in providing required documents. In this role, you will communicate with various stakeholders including: Internal communications with nursing and nurse aide faculty, the nursing program administrative assistant, Career Technical Education advisors, nursing and nurse aide students, the Academic Dean s office, IT, and the fiscal department External communication with clinical coordinators from other educational institutions and clinical placement platform, human resources, management and staff at clinical agencies. This position does have the opportunity to work remotely occasionally but does require a strong on-campus presence and will need to travel to all three FRCC campuses. Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment.
SALARY: $50,000 - $52,605 annually
BENEFITS: Please click here to find more information about APT & Faculty Benefits
SELECTION PROCESS: Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of June 3, 2024. This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.
Preliminary screening will be made on the basis of completed application package submitted by candidate. In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically addresses how your background and experience align with requirements, qualification and responsibilities of the Nursing Coordinator.
Primary Duties Clinical Compliance
Act as liaison in consultation with faculty to interpret and match the needs of students and faculty to agencies with appropriate learning experiences, building and maintaining excellent working relationships with all. Provide administrative support for the clinical compliance requirements for nursing and nurse aide students in the FRCC-LC Associate Degree ursing Program, RN-BSN, and Nurse Aide Certificate Programs. Network with various medical facilities and colleges both formally and informally and ongoing contact with agency staff and management, maintaining a database for nursing student placement. Maintain files and records of FT faculty, PT instructors and students ensuring compliance and accuracy with agency requirements. Initiate clinical agency contracts and send attestation documents to clinics as requested. Collaborate with Program Directors to maintain and update the clinical schedule at all times. Coordinate with course lead faculty and program administrative assistant to document student and faculty compliance with all clinical agency requirements prior to the first day of class each semester. Coordinate all required pre-rotation agency specific training/assignments for students and clinical faculty prior to clinical rotations (i.e. HIPAA/OSHA, computer training) Schedule information sessions for students related to paperwork completion, expectations, and requirements. Aid students in understanding requirements and expectations for completing and submitting documents and communicate with the students until paperwork collection is complete. Collaborate with directors and lead faculty in the coordination of class list