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:
 

Pay Range: $73,100.00 - $120,600.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

This position is located ONSITE in Salt Lake City, Utah

Join Our Mission to Transform Healthcare Education

At WGU’s Leavitt School of Health, we’re passionate about empowering the next generation of nurses through innovative, competency-based education. As a Prelicensure Clinical Instructor, you’ll play a crucial role in mentoring and teaching future healthcare professionals while working in a dynamic and supportive environment.

If you’re a passionate, experienced nursing professional looking to guide students toward success in clinical settings, this role is for you!

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 Senior Supervisor, Lab Academics.

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, includ