Job Description

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester.  We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement.  We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.
 
As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

Job Posting Title:

Director, Health Science Simulation Operations

Job Description Summary:

Responsible for leading the simulation strategic vision and simulation operations for the Health Sciences Division. Provide oversight to the daily operations of the Regional Simulation Center at HLC. Ensure the application of best practices in healthcare simulation, support faculty development, and promote inter-professional collaboration. Maintain accreditation standards, collaborate with various campuses, and facilitate scholarly activities to evaluate the impact of simulation education.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1. Supervises, trains, coaches, directs, coordinates, and disciplines personnel while adhering to organizational human resource policies and procedures as well as related employment laws.  Recommends hire and termination personnel actions for positions supervised.

2. Leads the Health Science strategic simulation vision and simulation operations for the Regional simulation center including space, inventory, budget and assets.

3. Ability to apply Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice to support Health Science programs in expanding and integrating simulation activities including interprofessional collaboration and faculty development.

4.  Facilitate orientation and training regarding behavioral expectations, performance standards, equipment operation, policies, procedures, and appropriate safety measures.

5. Provide leadership to Health Sciences faculty and staff in utilization of simulation to enhance and support educational competence of learners.

6.  Maintain the accreditation through the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and institute to maintain accreditation standards.  

8.  Collaborate with faculty, clinicians, and staff in developing scholarly activities to showcase and evaluate impact of simulation education.

9. Maintain and manage the procedural manual for simulation operations.

10. Oversee data collection of simulation utilization and user satisfaction.

11. Maintain strategies to facilitate continuous quality improvement, collaboration with regional healthcare organizations, and growth of the simulation operations.

12. Work with the Health Science Dean to develop and manage fiscal and strategic processes for simulation Health Science Division wide.

13. Maintain the schedule for HLC simulation staff.

14. Oversee use, management, and maintenance of simulation technology including audio-visual equipment and manikins.

15. Conduct or delegate tours of the Regional Simulation Center (HLC).

16. Chair Health Sciences Simulation Steering Committee and participate in other ACC and external committees relevant to simulation.

17. Support concepts that enhance simulation curriculum and co-curricular experiences to broaden learner knowledge. 

Skills:

•  Possess a background in leadership, and healthcare simulation
• Ability to Promote a civil, collaborative, and caring environment while ensuring safe lab/clinical practices.
• Ability to run technology associated with a Healthcare Simulation Center
• Maintain an established work schedule including occasional evenings and weekends
• Effectively use interpersonal and communications skills including tact and diplomacy, when working with diverse student, staff and faculty populations
• Effectively use  organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through
• Maintain confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Follow established procedures in emergency situations in a calm and logical manner. 
• Assist students and instructors in a clinical lab environment.
• Research, evaluate, and recommend updated lab equipment and technology.
• Oversight  in Simulation and clinical lab 

Required Experience

•     Three years teaching experience in nursing or related healthcare field

Preferred Experience

• Multi-disciplinary simulation-based education and training and outcome evaluation
• Implementation of innovative simulation-based education and training programs
• Curriculum development and assessment of adult learner experiences
• Working in a healthcare or academic setting in a management or leadership role
• Use of INACSL Simulation Design Templates or other validated instruments

Required Education

•  Master's degree or higher in Nursing or Health Science related field   

Preferred Education

• Doctorate or Ph.D

Other Preferred Qualifications

• CHSE or CHSOS Certification

Physical Requirements

* Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment as well as clinical/lab setting.
* Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
* Occasional lifting of objects up to 30 pounds.

Safety

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

July 28, 2023

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.