Undergraduate Ft Faculty (Ntta) Nursing And Remediation Specialist

The Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing at Long Island University, Brooklyn is located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn, a fast-growing, revitalized financial and cultural center. With a strong focus on interprofessional education, the Brooklyn campus hosts a wide range of programs in health care, business, the arts, and sciences. The School of Nursing boasts a large, diverse student body and highly talented faculty. We are poised for significant growth in our CCNE-accredited undergraduate and graduate programs.

Scope of Responsibilities:

The primary role of the Undergraduate Nursing Academic Coach and Remediation Specialist is to assist students to achieve high outcomes in academic performance, licensure pass rates, and student satisfaction with course, instructors, program, and the campus in the undergraduate nursing program. The academic coach engages students in early identification, intervention, remediation and other evidenced based coaching strategies for improved retention, progression, academic success, and NCLEX success. The academic coach assists the student in the utilization of structured resources and processes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Meets with all at risk students to conduct gap analysis for the purpose of creating a success plan, monitoring student progress, and documenting coaching activities and progress.

Monitors at risk student performance daily and maintains regular communication with at risk students as well as their faculty member and refers the student to other academic or psychosocial resources as deemed appropriate.

Maintains partial nursing faculty teaching assignment in the coach's area of expertise as assigned.

Provides orientation and ongoing support for other nursing faculty in the use of student success tools and strategies in the classroom, clinical and laboratory setting.

Performs other duties as assigned

Skills/Competencies/Qualifications:

Current active unencumbered New York State licensure as a registered nurse

Baccalaureate Degree in nursing and earned Master of Science degree in nursing required.

At least three years of experience as nursing faculty or similar position and 4 years clinical practice as a registered nurse.

Must demonstrate a commitment to student success, and strong interpersonal, advising, public speaking, and data management skills. Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications skills and the ability to interact well with students, faculty and administration.

LIU is an equal opportunity employer. LIU is committed to extending equal opportunity in employment to all qualified candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community. LIU encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal laws. Hiring is contingent on eligibility to work in the United States.