Clinical Coordinator & Faculty, Rad Tech

Clinical Coordinator - Radiologic Technology
Rasmussen University
Odessa, FL

The Clinical Coordinator/Faculty - SOHS is a fully on-site position, primarily responsible for managing the assigned Health Sciences program’s clinical experiences and teaching courses in a variety of modalities while promoting and supporting the vision and mission of Rasmussen University.

Responsibilities

The essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to the following tasks, duties, and responsibilities consistent with the role of clinical coordinator. The employee is expected to perform all other duties as requested, directed, and/or assigned.

Teaching and Programmatic Workload Consists of 5 work units: 

• Clinical Coordinators/Faculty will have 1 to 2 clinical coordination work units.
• Clinical Coordinators/Faculty will teach 3 to 4 work units.

Clinical Site Planning, Implementation, and Assessment

The responsibility of the Clinical Coordinator/Faculty – SOHS is for coordinating and managing the efforts of the designated Health Sciences program’s clinical sites in the education and preparation of students for clinical experiences.

• Identify, develop, obtain affiliation agreements, and maintain clinical sites.
• Develop, monitor, and refine the clinical practicum component of the curriculum.
• Coordinate assignment of students to clinical sites and facilitate quality learning experiences for students during clinical education.
• Evaluate students’ performance, in cooperation with other faculty, to determine their ability to integrate didactic and clinical learning experiences and to progress within the curriculum.
• Educate students, clinical and academic faculty about clinical education.
• Select clinical learning environments that demonstrate characteristics of sound patient/client management, ethical and professional behavior, and currency with program
• Provide documented records and assessment of the clinical education component (includes but not limited to clinical education sites, clinical educators, placements, evaluations, monitoring student progress, etc.).
• Actively engage core faculty clinical practicum education planning, implementation, and assessment.

Programmatic & Academic Support

• Assists Academic Deans, Programmatic Leadership, and programmatic faculty in planning, implementing and evaluating the curricula.
• Actively represents Rasmussen University to students, professional organizations, partners, and other relevant constituencies within the communities.
• Participates in strategic planning and implementation of programmatic activities and events, especially as related to academic matters; reviews and supports academic policies.
• Attend Teaching Development and Development in Discipline programs in addition to maintaining required professional credentials.
• Participate in community and professional events as designated by the Academic Dean.
• Establish regular communication with Career Services, Admissions, and Student Advisors to answer programmatic questions, discuss retention and placement outcomes, and discuss potential, current, graduate students and maintain documentation of these meetings.
• Maintain all student programmatic practicum files and ensure proper documentation is collected.
• Review, maintain, and enforce the immunization programmatic policy requirements.
• Participate in the program evaluation process.
• Support attainment of programmatic start, retention, and placement goals.
• Participate in programmatic licensing and accreditation process.
• Develop networks, collaborations, and partnerships to enhance Rasmussen’s influence within the academic community and support programmatic outcomes.
• Provide safe learning environment by maintaining the requirements of the Rasmussen Safety Manual and maintaining lab equipment, if applicable.

Programmatic & Academic Student Success

• Provide academic advising and counseling to students.
• Respond in a timely and appropriate manner to all student, faculty, and leadership requests for information and/or guidance.
• Support University, community, and national partnerships that foster educational goals and programmatic outcomes.
• Collaborate with faculty and student support personnel (i.e., Career Services, Admissions, Student Affairs, Student Finance) to assure delivery of superior student service.
• Support student success through timely and consistent feedback, promotion of academic resources and the availability of tutoring/open lab sessions a