Specialist, Clinical Lab

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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:

Specialist, Clinical Lab

Job Description Summary:

To provide temporary assistance as needed

Job Description:

• Performs preparation and clean up for scheduled lab classes.
• Assists simulation coordinator with simulation labs as needed.
• Assists with day to day activities and services of the nursing lab area including scheduling, lab set-up, and management of lab equipment and supplies, including the ADN program, and other health science departments.
• Assists with management of lab equipment and supplies to nursing labs at other Austin Community College (ACC) locations.
• May provide assistance to instructors and/or students in a clinical lab setting.
• Makes simple repairs and performs minor maintenance to lab equipment.
• Conducts inventories of consumable lab equipment and supplies as needed.
• May prepare and assist in maintenance of a variety of records and reports.
• Medical skills, equipment, and technology used in the nursing area.
• Lab facilities and services.
• Lab equipment and supplies.
• Safety standards and practices used in clinical lab settings.
• Processes for maintaining and/or repairing equipment.
• Maintaining an established work schedule, including evenings and weekends.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communication skills, including tact and diplomacy as well as working with diverse student and faculty populations.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Remaining calm and logical, and following established procedures in emergency situations.
• Assisting with lab activities and services.
• Providing assistance to students and instructors in a clinical/lab environment.
• Promoting and ensuring safe lab practices.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.
• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• One year related work experience in nursing.
• Associate degree or higher in nursing, from an accredited institution/program and a valid license in good standing as a Registered Nurse. Experience cannot be substituted for education.
• Valid Texas Driver's License and reliable transportation for local Austin area travel.
• Will be expected to wear a Level 1 or N95 for long periods of time when working in the lab with students.
• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Pay Rate

$33.30/Hour

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

February 3, 2023 Clery 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.

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