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WGU is seeking a full-time Supervisor, Lab Faculty in Kansas City, MO to oversee learning labs for nursing students, ensuring high-quality experiential learning and instructor performance.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include managing lab faculty, ensuring consistency in curriculum delivery, providing training and evaluation of instructors, as well as maintaining a safe and effective learning environment.

Skills: Required skills include expertise in nursing education, high fidelity simulation, strong communication, problem-solving capabilities, and adaptability to changing needs.

Qualifications: Minimum qualifications include an MSN in Nursing Education or Administration, an active RN License in the state, and one year of nursing lab experience. Preferred: certification in high-fidelity simulation.

Location: Position is onsite in Kansas City, MO at WGU's lab facility, with variable hours Monday through Friday.

Compensation: $75900 - $125300 / Annually

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Management_Executive 605Pay Range: $75,900.00 - $125,300.00

Job Description

**THIS POSITION IS ONSITE IN THE KANSAS CITY, MO LAB.**

The Supervisor, Lab Faculty supports the learning labs including high fidelity simulation labs as defined by the WGU National Pre-licensure curriculum. The incumbent is responsible for assuring high quality lab experiential learning for students, for providing quality oversight, training, guidance and evaluation of all lab instructors and simulation technicians within the state to ensure national consistency of lab experiences and instructor performance. The position reports to the Manager, Lab Faculty and Operations.

The Supervisor, Lab Faculty is an expert lab instructor and a role model to all lab instructors and simulation technicians within the state. This position is responsible for providing high quality learning, ensuring consistency with the national curriculum, and ensuring consistency and expertise in the required documentation of student performance; including assessment tools and communication with the lab scheduling team. This position is a subject matter expert (SME) in the use of simulation, particularly high-fidelity simulation in the instruction of pre-licensure nursing curriculum, and delegates to population-specific SMEs/ instructors (Medical-Surgical, Pediatric etc.) as appropriate. When serving in the role of Lab Instructor, the Supervisor, Lab Faculty is the instructor of record responsible for the oversight of several cohorts of student nurses in the lab learning lab and at the lab site, teaching both nursing lab skills and simulated patient care situational scenarios. Courses range from Fundamentals, Medical/Surgical Nursing, Critical Care, Pediatrics, and Women's Health -- giving the Supervisor, Lab Faculty a full range of teaching and leadership responsibilities. Additionally, this Supervisor position leads a team of learning lab instructors and simulation technicians, and is responsible for training, onboarding, coaching, and development of all lab faculty and staff within the designated state or region to ensure consistency of instruction, assessment, and documentation of the student learning experience.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Support students in the identification of their individual learning needs.
• Provide and maintain consistent lab learning experience for students and staff.
• Lead and develop a team of highly engaged learning lab instructors and simulation technicians.
• Incorporate student and self as an integral part of the nursing team in the provision of safe patient care when teaching in a simulated environment.
• Ensure a safe and healthy work environment; i.e., complies with college of health and safety policies, practices, and programs in keeping with occupational health & safety legislation and regulation.
• Models professional standards, including customer service, collaboration, communication, excellence, attendance, and consistency with the Leavitt School of Health mission, vision and philosophy.
• Performs remediation with students in skills area as needed.
• Works closely with college staff to appropriately integrate lab operations, obtain maximum utilization for the most efficient expenditure, and to moderate student costs.
• Assist and support the Manager, Lab Faculty and Operations to address content gaps in the lab curriculum.
• Develop and maintain lab relationships to ensure high quality lab experiences for students and continued growth of the pre-licensure program.
• Works with other state supervisors and Manager, Lab Faculty and Operations Academics to update and develop experiential learning policies and procedures.
• Provides orientation and substantial first cohort support to new Learning Lab Instructors and Simulation Technicians during onboarding to the WGU model and standards for lab instruction.
• Facilitate and maintain a respectful and professional work environment incorporating active learning, reflective thinking, and a confidential debriefing process.
• Integrate evidence-based tools and measurements to evaluate student learning.
• Participate in identifying potential lab sites and collaborate on site contracting discussions.
• Assist and support SDON and Manager, Lab Faculty and Operations in identifying additional lab sites for skills and high-fidelity simulation for general cohorts and specialty lab needs (such as Pediatrics and Women’s Health).
• Manage lab partner sites to foster effective relationships under the guidance of the State Director of Nursing and Manager, Lab Faculty and Operations.
• Serve as a role model for WGU adjunct faculty in communicating and demonstrating high professional practice and communication standards between WGU staff, volunteers, adjunct faculty, and members of the larger community.
• Support quality improvement measurements related to faculty and student satisfaction.
• Review all lab student feedback from post lab surveys and raises concerns or issues necessary to improve lab experience quality.
• Ongoing evaluation of lab faculty and staff to maintain consistency and quality of lab and simulation consistent with WGU standards.
• Collaboration with the scheduling team which includes attending forecasting meetings, providing scheduling support, and scheduling labs and students as required by your state(s).
• Any other duties as appropriately assigned or required (Lab operations responsibilities vary depending on whether the site is WGU-operated or rented from a hospital or separate school of nursing).
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Evaluation of teaching and learning against WGU practice standards.
• Ability to anticipate and effectively adapt to changes in program requirements and methodology.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse faculty, staff, and student body.
• Ability to align to a national model, work and collaborate well with teams.
• Contemporary lab competence and knowledge about simulation both high fidelity and virtual reality as evidenced by relevant continuing education and professional organization affiliation.
• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and electronic communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to learn and apply integrated technology systems and tools as required to maintain consistency with the national program.
• Problem Solving Skills: Investigates appropriate resources and involves partners when appropriate. Is future-oriented. Assesses what will help or hinder achieving goals. Focuses on what is important.
• Interpersonal Skills: Deals with others in a considerate, respectful, and unbiased manner. Approaches conflict proactively. Solicits and share feedback openly. Listens with empathy and maintains composure.
• Accuracy: Draws on facts collected from a broad knowledge of WGU’s goals and processes.
• Adaptability: Corrects behaviours and communication style to meet the needs of a wider range of situations. Tackles obstacles appropriately. Is comfortable with ambiguity.
• Reliability: Accountable to others; does what it takes to get the job done. Actions are consistent with words. Follows through on commitments. Exhibits exceptional integrity.
• Attitude: Displays commitment to the organization and to personal growth. Is self-motivated and able to motivate and inspire others. Asserts self appropriately to champion ideas. Tells the truth in a direct and constructive manner.
• Initiative: Self-directs with a strong tendency for action. Leads the way to improve performance or processes. Displays keen interest in students and organization.

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• MSN in Nursing Education or Nursing Administration
• One (1) year of basic experience in a nursing lab
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to include weekends to support lab instructional needs.
• Requires an active and unencumbered (will be verified) RN License in the State of the lab location.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ·One (1) year experience in high-fidelity simulation
• ·Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator® (CHSE®) certification
• ·Direct patient care experience within the last 5 years

Working Conditions:

• This is an Onsite/In-office only role. 
• Variable hours Monday through Friday.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Disclaimer: This Job Description has been designed to indicate the general nature, essential duties, and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this classification. It does not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications that are required of the employee to do this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. This Job Description does not constitute a contract of employment and the University may exercise its employment-at-will rights at any time.

Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; 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; and 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, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.