Simulation Standardized Patient (Hourly)

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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:

• Reflects the diversity of our community

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching

• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities

• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations

• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others

• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

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ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and underrepresented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body as an open-access and low-cost institution. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to our students' diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Simulation Standardized Patient (Hourly)

Job Description Summary:

To provide temporary assistance as needed

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks 

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Acts as a simulated, fictional patient in health sciences simulations.
• Assists in the simulation of patient encounters in simulated healthcare settings.
• Collaborates with Health Sciences faculty to simulate patient care situations.
• Ensures safe simulation of clinical situations.
• Collaborates with ACC Health Sciences simulation faculty to support realistic simulations of health care situations.
• Provides feedback regarding student performance to the supervising faculty member.
• Participates in simulation debriefing exercises with faculty and students.

Knowledge 

Must possess required knowledge and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge and competence in acting and communication skills.

Skills

Must possess required skills and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Portraying fictional patients in clinical simulation scenarios. 
• Personnel in this role may not ad-lib clinical simulation scenarios.
• Collaborating with faculty and staff to simulate fictional patient care scenarios. 
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Effectively working with a diverse and multicultural student body.
• Understanding and following instructions precisely.

Technology Skills

• Demonstrated proficiency using standard office software applications.

Required Work Experience

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