Instructor - Nursing Skills Lab

Title: Instructor - Nursing Skills Lab

Salary: $55,326.00

Contract Term Length: 12 Months

Expected Start Date: August 2026

Standard Hours: 37.50

Work Location: Discretionary Hybrid

FLSA Status: Exempt

College: Gateway Community & Technical College

Campus Location: Gateway Edgewood Campus

Department: Health Professions

Total Rewards

Gateway Community & Technical College offers a competitive benefits package and an attractive work environment that supports excellence, innovation, and creativity, including:

• Exceptional health care, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Tuition reimbursement/waiver for you, your spouse, and dependents
• 403(b) retirement plan: a 5% employee contribution receives a 10% employer match
• Vacation/Sick Time
• Work-Life Balance
• 9.5 Paid Holidays
• 2 Weeks Institutional Closing Pay (Last 2 weeks of December) for qualifying positions
• Employee Assistance Program

Job Summary

This position provides instructional leadership and coordinates skills and simulation-based learning within the Associate Degree Nursing Program. This role designs, delivers, and evaluates laboratory and simulation experiences that build students’ psychomotor skills, clinical judgment, and professional behaviors while ensuring alignment with curriculum outcomes, evidence-based practice, and NCLEX-RN standards. The instructor collaborates with nursing faculty, manages daily lab operations and resources, supports accreditation and quality improvement efforts, and contributes to student success and college service

12-month faculty contract covers the entire academic calendar year, from July to June. Faculty members on 12-month contracts receive a consistent monthly salary. Benefits are provided year-round. Renewal of the contract depends on factors such as student enrollment and available funding

***Applicants selected for an interview will be required to give a short (approximately 15 minutes) teaching demonstration on the topic to be determined before the interview.

Faculty may be assigned courses that include both traditional college students and high school students earning dual credit. This dynamic mix offers a unique opportunity to engage learners at different stages of their academic journey.

Job Duties:

• Provide instructional leadership for the skills and simulation laboratory within the Associate Degree Nursing Program, ensuring alignment of laboratory learning experiences with course outcomes, program outcomes, current evidence-based practice, and NCLEX-RN test plan expectations.
  
• Design, deliver, and evaluate laboratory and simulation instruction that supports classroom content and promotes the development of psychomotor skills, clinical judgment, and professional behaviors across multiple nursing courses.
  
• Collaborate with course faculty to review, revise, and align laboratory, simulation, and skills-based curriculum with didactic instruction to ensure curricular coherence, scaffolding, and integration of best practices in nursing pedagogy.
  
• Participate in systematic curriculum review and continuous quality improvement processes related to laboratory, simulation, and clinical learning experiences.
  
• Coordinate the operational management of the nursing skills and simulation laboratories, including scheduling, setup, maintenance of equipment, and oversight of learning environments to support high-quality educational delivery.
  
• Manage procurement, inventory, and maintenance of laboratory and simulation supplies, equipment, and instructional resources necessary to support student achievement and program outcomes.
  
• Facilitate and implement simulation-based learning experiences using evidence-based simulation standards and debriefing methodologies to enhance student clinical judgment and readiness for practice.
  
• Serve as an active member of the nursing faculty team through collaborative teaching, instructional support, a