Job Description:

Fairfield University is a co-educational comprehensive Catholic Jesuit university with a 200-acre campus located along the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield CT consisting of five schools: The College of Arts and Sciences The Charles F. Dolan School of Business The School of Engineering The Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies and The School of Education and Human Development. As an expression of our Jesuit Catholic mission and identity Fairfield embracesa liberal humanistic approach to education encouragingcritical thinking cultivating free andopen inquiryand fostering ethical and religious values.

Position Description

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Program Director in the Egan School possesses overall year-round responsibility for their respective units. They are all certified in their respective specialty and population-focused areas of practice as specified by relevant regulatory and specialty bodies if applicable. The PMHNP Program Director has release time and/or stipends commensurate with responsibilities of the program. Program Directors report directly to the respective Associate Dean/s to ensure that organizational policies related to faculty roles and workload are applied to the program in a manner that recognizes and supports the academic and practice aspects of respective Programs.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS NEEDED:

The program director must:

• Have earned doctoral degree and three years professional experience post credentialing or have earned a masters degree and have five years professional experience post credentialing.

• Have teaching and administrative experiences commensurate with position responsibilities.

• Be credentialed in respective specialty area if applicable

• Be a full-time employee of the University

• Not direct another specialty within the School or University.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The program director responsibilities must include but are not limited to:

• Provision or delegation of responsibilities to assure year-round coverage of director responsibilities.

• Collaborative development and application of policies and procedures for effectively managing all components of the program and to ensure fair equitable and considerate treatment of prospective and enrolled students (such as program admission retention and completion policies).

• Full participation in all student recruitment activities including those sponsored by Admissions.

• Regular communication with students admitted to the program including a minimum of one email/semester and provision of additional opportunities as needed for advisement evaluation and counseling.

• Leading efforts to identify establish and maintain all clinical sites in collaboration with the Clinical Coordinators.

• Regular communication with clinical faculty and preceptors to review program expectations evaluate site resources and collaborate on student performance evaluation.

• Evaluate clinical experiences in terms of the adequacy and appropriateness of assignments available the level of staff support the willingness of agency personnel to allow students to engage in experiences needed to meet course objectives and the diversity of client situations available.

• Provision of annual review of program outcomes including student enrollment and recruitment completed or anticipated revisions to courses or curriculum plan clinical site experiences and anticipated needs of students faculty and staff.

• Analyze program data share with institutional representatives and incorporate into school planning.

• Serve as chair of program curriculum committee as appropriate.

Responsibility for PMHNP Student Clinical Placements

• Works with the administrative team to identify clinical placement needs for students each semester and works with the identified clinical sites to secure those placements.

• Takes initiative and outreach to identify and collaboratively partner with new regional health care providers students alumni and other interested parties to increase the placement site base for programs.

• Responsible for planning coordinating establishing evaluating and maintaining site placements and preceptors for student clinical experiences.

• Ensures appropriate quality clinical experiences for students in the Egan School based on specified requirements goals and practice specialty.

• Develops new clinical site recruitment collaborative relationships with existing site preceptors contract negotiations and finalization student clinical scheduling clinical contacts and site visits.

• Maintains continuing dialogue with current and potential new clinical site agencies via phone email or written consultation and recommendation on the selection of sites and contractual implications. Communicate information about clinical agency needs to faculty and staff to foster productive and ongoing clinical placement relationships

• Partners with faculty teaching clinical courses and administrators to identify the additional site placements needed annually to accommodate enrolled students in their clinical courses.

• Directs the recruitment of new clinical agency sites and preceptors. Visits potential agencies to evaluate resources available preceptors client population served clinic mission and goals and range of clinical services provided. Makes recommendations regarding the best use of the site and communicates that information to faculty.

• Collaborates with Egan Operations Coordinator to execute and maintain new clinical site contracts. Takes responsibility for obtaining and organizing other legal and accreditation requirements.

• Collaborates with faculty to match student clinical requirements to current placement sites.

• Maintenance of program accreditation requirements including:

  • Timely submission of fees reports and requests for major program changes;

  • Maintenance of the programs student records including student advising plans supervised experiential learning hours and verification statements;

  • Maintenance of complaints about the program received from students or others including disposition of the complaint;

  • On-going review of programs curriculum to meet the accreditation standards;

  • Facilitation of processes for continuous program evaluation and student learning outcomes assessment and

  • Communication and coordination with program faculty preceptors and others involved with the program and its students.

  • Timely submission of required documentation supporting the graduates eligibility for certification and licensing exams.

• Additional duties as required by the Dean or Associate Dean(s).

Requirements:

Hold a Masters or doctoral degree in nursing with commensurate educational experience. Have effective verbal and written communication skills. Be innovative in curricular development and demonstrate a strong commitment to excellence and innovation in education.

Application Instructions:

Review of applications will begin immediately and remain open until filled.
To apply please click Apply Now and upload the following materials:

• a curriculum vitae

• a letter of application

• contact information for three references

Inquiries about the position should be addressed to Dr. Sally Gerard Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Egan School of Nursing & Health studies

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