EMS Instructional Assistant

Position Overview

Title: EMS Instructional Assistant
Agency: Rappahannock Community College
Location: Gloucester - 073
FLSA: Nonexempt
Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience.
Full Time or Part Time: Part Time (up to 29 hours per week)

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs.

RCC’s enrollment in  includes 3,700 credit students and almost 800 workforce and community development students, supported by almost 140 full‑time employees and over 200 part‑time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and four satellite sites.

• Serve as a supplemental instructor in classroom and laboratory settings for all EMS certification levels.
• Coordinate with the instructor and/or EMS Program Head to deliver and evaluate required practical skills.
• Assist with setup and breakdown of equipment and supplies.
• Observe, evaluate, and document student performance on skills covered in each lesson.
• Maintain an on‑campus presence at either the Glenns or Warsaw campuses, the New Kent or Kilmarnock off‑site locations, or agencies within the service region.

EMT Instructional Assistant: Virginia and/or National Registry Advanced Emergency Medical Technician designation or higher with an unencumbered license to practice in Virginia; significant experience as a provider in a high call volume agency or equivalent; demonstrated competency in BLS and/or ALS knowledge, psychomotor skills, and affective domain evaluation.

AEMT/Paramedic Instructional Assistant: Virginia and/or National Registry Paramedic designation with an unencumbered license to practice in Virginia, American Heart Association CPR for Health Care Providers certification; significant experience as an ALS provider in a high call volume agency or equivalent; demonstrated competency in ALS knowledge, psychomotor skills, and affective domain evaluation.

• Teaching experience in an approved EMS program(s) and/or community college level.
• Associate or bachelor’s degree in EMS or equivalent fields.
• VEMSES and/or NEMSES instructor designation or eligibility.
• Instructor certification in courses such as ACLS, ITLS, PHTLS, PEPP, PALS, AMLS, etc., with experience teaching in programs.

Hourly position with no benefits. Day, evening, and weekend teaching options may be available to accommodate faculty schedules.

RCC is committed to an inclusive, diverse, and equitable environment where student and faculty success is promoted.