Patient Care Technician Adjunct Instructor

Rappahannock Community College (RCC), founded in 1970, provides high-quality educational and training opportunities throughout a 12-county service region an hour east of Richmond on the beautiful western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with access to fresh local seafood and water activities. RCC delivers accessible and affordable educational opportunities, including for-credit transfer and career technical programs, robust distance education coursework, quality dual enrollment courses, and award-winning workforce training and credentialing programs. RCC’s annualized enrollment of 3,900 credit students in 2025-2026 and almost 890 workforce and community development students are supported by almost 140 full-time employees and over 200 part-time/adjunct employees across two main campuses and five satellite sites.
Are you someone who wants to help students achieve their educational and professional dreams?
RCC invites you to apply for a Patient Care Technician (PCT) Adjunct Instructor at our Glenns, Warsaw or Kilmarnock Satellite Campus. We are seeking a dedicated healthcare professional to lead classroom instruction, direct skills lab training, and facilitate clinical rotations. Teaching assignments may take place at one or more of our campus locations.
Our curriculum combines the foundational competencies of a Nurse Aide and a Clinical Medical Assistant. As the instructor, you will equip future technicians with the skills needed to deliver care across diverse clinical settings—including hospitals, doctor’s offices, nursing homes, and residential care facilities—and prepare them to pass both the Virginia State Board of Nursing exam for Nurse Aide licensure and the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) national certification exam.
Key responsibilities of this role include delivering engaging classroom instruction and hands-on skill labs across one or more assigned campus sites and teaching core PCT and Nurse Aide competencies, including activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and personal care techniques, and diagnostic and clinical skills such as EKG administration and Phlebotomy (blood drawing). Ln addition, this role will instruct on specialized patient care procedures such as Foley care, catheter care, basic specimen collection, and vital signs monitoring.
This position will also lead and supervise students during clinical rotations at designated regional healthcare agencies, maintaining strict adherence to safety and infection control standards. Lastly, this role will evaluate student progress and ensure readiness to sit for the Virginia State Board of Nursing Nurse Aide exam and the Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA) exam.
The College desires candidates with a commitment to the community college mission and experience working in a varied student population, including adult learners and at-risk students. The successful candidate will be committed to academic excellence, continuous improvement through professional development, assessment, program and course development, and creating a collegial environment of civility, collaboration and open communication. The college strives for a faculty of content experts who are also knowledgeable about best practices, innovative strategies, and instructional technologies that support teaching and learning.

May be required to perform other duties as assigned. May be required to assist the agency or state government generally in the event of an emergency declaration by the Governor.

• Licensure: Active, unencumbered Registered Nurse (RN) license in the Commonwealth of Virginia (or multistate Compact license).
• Clinical Experience: Two years as a registered nurse and at least one (1) year of direct client care experience or supervisory experience in the provision of long-term care services.
• Instructor Training: Evidence of completion of an approved Nurse Aide Train-the-Trainer course OR willingness to complete the Train-the-Trainer course within 30 days of hire.
• Flexibility: Willingness and ability to teach at one or more designated campus locations (Warsaw, Glenns, Kilmarnock).
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) / CPR Certification.

• At least one (1) year of teaching experience in a healthcare, clinical, or academic setting.
• Familiarity with Virginia Board of Nursing regulations for Nurse Aide education programs and NHA Clinical Medical Assistant standards.

The selected candidate’s offer is contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background investigation, which may include: fingerprint checks, local agency checks, employment verification, verification of education, credit checks (relevant to employment). Additionally, selected candidates may be required to complete the Commonwealth’s Statement of Economic Interest. For more information, please follow this link:  http://ethics.dls.virginia.gov/

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