Assistant Professor, Vocational Nursing 

Salary: $71,949.50 - $112,526.75 Annually

Location: Yucaipa, CA

Job Type: 

Department: Career Education and Human Development

Job Number: 2426-00067

Closing: 10/25/2025 11:59 PM Pacific

Job Description

Crafton Hills College is a designated Hispanic Serving Institution with a majority of our students identifying themselves as either African American/Black or Latinx. At the heart of the Inland Empire, CHC is a driving factor to improve the lives of our students, their families, and our communities. We are seeking individuals to join our Nursing Services Department team that are fully committed to transformational, culturally responsive education in a collegial and collaborative student-centered environment.

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION:

This posting is to fill one (1) full-time, tenure track positions teaching within the NursingServices department. This position will provide instruction and instructional support for the following:

• Vocational Nursing

• Health Care Ancillaries (Medical assisting, hospice worker, home care aide, certified nurse aide, health aide, ward clerk, central service technology, childbirth educator, primary care associate, massage therapy)

We value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded individual committed to collaborating with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also committed to closing equity gaps. An equity-minded individual is a person who already has or has demonstrated the desire to:

• Understand the importance of educators being held accountable for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices.

• Reframe inequities as a problem of practice and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility

• Encourage positive race-consciousness and embrace human difference

• Reflect on institutional and teaching practices and aim to make them more culturally responsive

• Strategically build buy-in and participation among colleagues for equity-related initiatives.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

The duties below are representative of the duties of the classification and are not intended to cover all the duties performed by the incumbent(s) of any position. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the scope of work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to this classification. Vocational Nursing Instructors will:

1. Develop and guide the teaching learning process by adopting teaching strategies to deliver theoretical content to promote student engagement.

2. Provide clinical instruction in the acute, long-term, and community care and virtual settings to coach students in learning clinical reasoning and judgement.

3. Implement evidenced based skill building in the nursing lab setting

4. Assist in curriculum planning, implementing, and evaluating.

5. Consult with students during regularly scheduled office hours

6. Participate and collaborate in nursing team, department, and division meetings

7. Perform other duties as required by contract, collective bargaining agreements, regulatory body changes affecting the programs, and general institutional needs

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

1. Recent clinical knowledge of medical surgical nursing.

2. Ability to teach in clinical areas as assigned, utilizing a variety of successful teaching techniques.

3. An understanding of current nursing issues and trends. Willingness to actively participate and contribute to changes in the Nursing Services program at department and team meetings.

4. A commitment to staying abreast of new trends in nursing care and the clinical setting.

5. A commitment to supporting gender and ethnically diverse students.

6. Ability to ensure consistent and appropriate monitoring of student progress.

7. Ability to use teaching methods that engage all students actively in their own learning and encourage them to learn problem solving skills.

8. Ability to teach in both in-person and virtual environments.

9. Ability to adapt teaching methodologies to meet the needs of an ethnically and culturally diverse studentpopulation, while addressing varied learning styles, barriers, and challenges to support student success.

10. Ability to assist students in the acquisition, analysis, and evaluation of knowledge and skills in both clinical and virtual settings.

11. Willingness to work with both faculty and staff in a spirit of collegiality at department, division, college, and District levels.

12. Ability to reflect on and evaluate the effectiveness of one's own pedagogy and modify techniques to engage students.

13. A commitment to the SBCCCD goal of integrating writing skills across the curriculum.

14. A commitment to the goals and ideals of the teaching profession and enthusiasm for the mission of the community college.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree or higher and two years of professional experience

OR

• Associate's degree and six years of professional experience.

• Demonstrate sensitivity to an understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty and staff.

• Current Active California Professional License as a Registered Nurse per BVNPT.

Minimum Qualifications are set by the https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/minimum-qualifications/CCCCOReport-Minimum-Qualifications-2023_.pdf https://get.adobe.com/reader/ 18th Edition Handbook and additional requirements are set by https://bvnpt.ca.gov/licensees/index.shtml regulations. 

Desirable Qualifications: 

• Ability to fulfill Program Director role as outlined by the BVNPT.

• Experience working with a community college nursing program.

• Experience with Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technician (BVNPT) and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) regulations.

• Three (3) years' experience as a registered nurse; one year shall be in teaching or clinical supervision, or a combination thereof, in a state approved registered nursing or vocational or practical nursing, or psychiatric technician school within the last five years; or have a minimum of three years' experience in nursing administration or nursing education within the last five years

• Have completed a course or courses offered by an approved school with instruction (1) in teaching, (2) curriculum development, and (3) administration.

• Teaching Course: (Certificate of Completion from an approved school or school transcript). If teaching content is unclear from the certificate or transcript, a copy of the course description from the school's catalog is requested.

• Knowledge of and ability to use computers and various software programs, as well as other technologies applicable for use in college classes.

Physical Demands and Working Environment

Physical Demands and Working Environment:

The conditions here in are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. 

Environment:

Work is performed primarily in a standard office setting. Occasional exposure to risks controlled by safety precautions.

Physical: Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to occasionally lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight up to 30 pounds; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a computer keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information.

Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents; and to operate assigned equipment.

Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

Employment Requirements

Employment Requirements:The person selected for hire will be required to complete the following pre-employment requirements:

• Submit to and successfully pass DOJ live scan/fingerprinting. Cost of live-scan services to be borne by candidate.

• Sealed official transcript(s) in envelope from institution or electronic copies emailed directly from institution (for positions with higher education requirement)

• Tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment.

• Employment verification(s) (for salary placement on faculty salary schedule). The salary posted in the job listing reflects the range from the starting minimum to the maximum placement, which is determined based on the candidate's education and experience once the position is offered and the salary placement paperwork is submitted to the Office of Human Resources. 

• Other pre-employment requirements may be required depending on the position (i.e. certifications or licenses; see job posting qualifications section for details).

Forecasted Recruitment Timeline (please note that delays may cause adjustments to this timeline):

FORECASTED RECRUITMENT TIMELINE

Internal HR Screening:

10/27/25-10/31/25

1st Level Interviews:

11/3/25-11/7/25

2nd Level Interviews:

11/10/25-11/14/25

Board Date:

1/8/2026

Projected Hire Date:

1/13/26

To apply, visit: https://apptrkr.com/6596968

The San Bernardino Community College District is an equal opportunity employer. The District encourages applications from underrepresented minorities and the disabled. 

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