Healthcare Professional Credit Trainer

Primary Accountabilities:

SUMMARY OF POSITION
The Healthcare Trainer develops and delivers healthcare instruction, simulation-based learning, and employer-aligned workforce training for adult learners, high school students, and incumbent healthcare workers. Working with college faculty and regional healthcare providers, the Trainer supports short-term credentials, healthcare career exploration, new-employee onboarding, and professional upskilling.

Instruction takes place at the Manhattan Tech Wamego Center, participating healthcare facilities, schools, and other approved regional locations. The Trainer integrates hands-on practice, high-fidelity patient simulation, and AR/VR-supported learning to help participants develop and demonstrate job-relevant competencies. Course assignments depend on the employee’s qualifications, applicable approvals, and institutional instructional requirements.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and deliver classroom, laboratory, simulation, and approved clinical instruction aligned with assigned healthcare courses and workforce training programs.
• Support CNA, CMA, phlebotomy, healthcare prerequisite, and other allied health offerings when qualified and authorized for the specific assignment.
• Coordinate under the guidance of the Healthcare Workforce Project Manager, and Collaborate with healthcare employers to identify skill gaps and develop customized onboarding, competency refreshers, and incumbent-worker training.
• Prepare lesson plans, learning materials, skills checklists, assessment rubrics, and instructional activities appropriate to participant needs.
• Design and facilitate patient-care scenarios using high-fidelity mannequins, clinical task trainers, medication-administration training equipment, and other instructional resources.
• Work with the Healthcare Simulation Specialist to integrate immersive (AR/VR) technologies into instruction and facilitate participant preparation and debriefing.
• Evaluate participant knowledge and clinical skills, document competency attainment, and provide constructive feedback and remediation.
• Maintain accurate attendance, assessment, completion, and training records for institutional and grant reporting.
• Coordinate with academic leadership and clinical partners to support approved learning experiences, placement schedules, and instructional requirements.
• Collaborate with the Healthcare Professions Navigator to identify learners needing additional academic or career support.
• Participate in healthcare career exploration events, school visits, employer demonstrations, and mobile training activities.
• Maintain safe instructional environments, model professional practice, and participate in ongoing clinical and instructional development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing from an accredited institution.
• Current, unrestricted RN license valid for practice in Kansas.
• Two years of clinical nursing experience.
• Current Basic Life Support certification.
• Ability to demonstrate and evaluate clinical skills and communicate effectively with learners of varying ages and backgrounds.
• Ability to use instructional technology and maintain accurate electronic records.
• Ability to meet applicable instructor qualifications and obtain required approvals for assigned courses before independently delivering instruction.

Preferred qualifications

• Master of Science in Nursing or a related graduate degree.
• Experience teaching, precepting, training healthcare employees, or facilitating simulation-based education.
• Experience in rural healthcare, long-term care, acute care, or ambulatory care.
• Existing instructor approvals or credentials relevant to CNA, CMA, BLS, or other assigned training.
• Experience with competency-based assessment, high-fidelity mannequins, or AR/VR instructional tools.
• Experience supporting adult learners, high school students, or incumbent workers.

Physical Demands

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift and move supplies up to twenty-five (25) lbs.
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally, in writing, via computer, and over the phone.
• Effective typing and transcription skills for necessary meetings and communications.
• Ability to work occasional early mornings, evenings, and weekends as needed and attend events as required.

Work Environment

• Professional and deadline-oriented environment in an office setting.
• Regular interaction with students, staff and guests.