Relevant Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing/Midwifery and a master’s degree from an accredited and recognized university.

• Be registered for a PhD programme or equivalent doctoral programme.

• Be registered with the Nursing Council of Kenya and have current licensure.

• Must have current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

• Should have at least 2 years clinical practice

• University teaching experience will be an added advantage

• Should possess excellent communication/interpersonal, organizational, and counselling skills.

• Coordinates skills lab (CIME) nursing clinical activities and ensures courses get equitable opportunities for lab and simulation usage.

• Work with course leads to ensure lab requirements for each course is met and ensure all equipment and supplies are available as per learning plans.

• Work with course leads to prepare CIME related practice modules, skills check forms, software use etc.

• Work with course leads on skills practice sessions and assessments e.g. OSCE

• Coordinate with CIME team to ensure students are oriented and facilitated in their clinical skill practice in CIME.

• Facilitates clinical placements in conjunction with course leads.

• Facilitates orientation of students to new clinical sites.

• Ensures all correspondents with clinical sites are completed each semester and permissions for use obtained.

• Seeks new placement sites as necessary in conjunction with SONAM administrators.

• Organizes clinical placements scheduling, attendance, and on-site assessments and troubleshoots any placement issues.

• Ensures all required student documentation is completed as required.

• Participate clinical site regulator inspections, semester evaluations and recommend as necessary.

• Utilize innovative and student engaging strategies in teaching and learning of courses as allocated.

• Ensure course outlines, lesson plans and any other teaching and learning materials are uploaded on the learning management platform e.g., Moodle on a timely manner.

• Planning and implementing teaching/learning sessions in class and in clinical areas.

• Preparing lesson plans and maintaining records to monitor student progress, achievement, and attendance. Assist with supervision of undergraduate students.

• Participate in the development, administration and marking of exams and other assessments.

• Engage in research in identified areas of interest in clinical practice and teaching / learning.

• Participate in professional scientific conferences.

• Publish research findings in peer reviewed journals.

• Identify an area of clinical practice relevant to expertise and subjects taught.

• Develop periodic clinical practice objectives to meet learning needs.

• Using identified objectives, engage in clinical practice.

• Maintain a current nursing practice license and basic life support (BLS) certification.

• Pursue higher academic qualifications as required by the Commission of University Education (CUE).

• Develop and maintain personal faculty portfolio.

• Identify and attend continuous development programmes.

• Participate in faculty and departmental seminars, workshops aimed at building capacity, sharing research outcomes and building interdisciplinary collaboration within and outside the department.