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

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion
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

• As required by the department.

Required Education

• High school diploma or equivalent

Special Requirements
Licenses/Certifications; Other

• Submit all required documents required by ACC and the clinical agencies prior to participating in student experiences.
• Submit all time electronically and within the required timeframe according to
• ACC policy/procedure. Failure to submit timesheets in compliance with college policy may result in employment being discontinued.

Required Education

• High school diploma or equivalent

Physical Requirements

• Work is routinely performed in a nursing simulation or skills lab.
• May be subject to lying down and/or sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, bending, reaching, kneeling, climbing, pushing, and pulling.
• Subject to the handling of hazardous materials.
• Occasional to routine lifting of objects up to 50 pounds.

Safety

• Work safely and follow safety rules. Report unsafe working conditions and behavior. Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.

Pay Rate
$27.40/hour
Number of Openings:
1
Job Posting Close Date:
January 31, 2024Clery Act
As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.
Disclaimer
The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.