Health Care - EMT Adjunct Faculty; Pool

Health Care - EMT Adjunct Faculty (Pool)

Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) is a highly regarded educational institution located in Gardner, Massachusetts and accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). Established in 1963, MWCC serves the educational needs of the communities of North Central Massachusetts with innovative undergraduate education, early college programs, workforce development, personal enrichment, and community service. With a strong emphasis on academic excellence, MWCC provides a supportive environment for individuals to pursue their educational goals, enhance professional skills, and seek personal growth.

As a beacon of opportunity, Mount Wachusett Community College empowers individuals from all walks of life, fostering their development and transformation.

We hope you will consider applying for one of our open positions, and discover all that Mount Wachusett Community College and the North Central Massachusetts region have to offer.

Mount Wachusett Community College embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values and makes it our mission to proactively focus on improving racial equity in our college community. We value equity-minded individuals with commitment to serve student learners from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. Therefore, we strongly encourage applicants who share our commitment and who understand the benefits of culturally relevant practices needed in an educational environment.

General Statement of Duties:

Potential Adjunct Faculty

Applications for this position will be held in applicant pools, whenever a position opens in any given discipline, the pool of applicants will be consulted when searching for candidates to fill any position. Applicants will not be notified of their status unless they are contacted to come in for an interview, which might occur soon after applying or as much as a year later.

Adjunct Faculty postings are for potential part-time, non-benefited, positions during the  academic years.

This Health Care EMT adjunct faculty member will teach assigned didactic and clinical courses, particularly within the Health Care curriculum (HCC). The adjunct faculty should be committed to using active learning strategies and student engagement. The adjunct faculty member will possess excellent communication skills, academic credentials, technological proficiency, and the expertise to provide students in the program with the health care skills needed for future academic and career opportunities.

The adjunct faculty member may teach at the Gardner and Leominster campuses, as well as online, during the day, evening, or on weekends based on program needs. The adjunct faculty may also teach HCC course sections for dual enrollment and/or early college students either on the Gardner Campus or on site at designated high school locations in the North Central Area.

• Instruction in both traditional and non-traditional learning methodologies, including but not limited to the use of learning platform technologies such as Black Board, active learning strategies, and instructional preparation.
• Assessment of student performance, including submission of final grades in a timely fashion;
• An obligation on the part of the unit member to be available to students by appointment when mutually convenient;
• Teaches Health Care courses (HCC) at all instructional locations as assigned by the Dean of Nursing & Health Sciences;
• In collaboration with other EMT instructors and/or paramedic faculty, may create college laboratory learning experiences, which may include high and low-fidelity simulation, for student demonstration and evaluation of clinical skills and student learning outcomes;
• Maintain MA EMT certification and MA EMS Instructor/Coordinator certification, providing faculty file updates to School of NHS and Human Resource Department annually;
• Actively participates in college governance and committees per MCCC contract; and
• Additional duties as required by the college.

POSSIBLE COURSES: HCC 111 & HCC 112