Nursing Academic Support & Simulation Specialist

Are you passionate about supporting nursing students on their journey to success? Join our team as an Academic Support & Simulation Specialist, where you’ll play a critical role in preparing future nurses for both academic achievement and success on the NCLEX-RN exam.

In this role, you’ll partner with academic leadership, faculty, and staff to provide targeted support and individualized coaching for students throughout their program. You’ll work one-on-one and in small groups to assess learning styles, reinforce key concepts, and design personalized remediation plans—helping learners build confidence and clinical competence.

You will also play a vital role in supporting clinical learning labs and simulated patient care experiences, ensuring students are fully prepared for real-world practice.

What You’ll Do:

Student Support & Academic Coaching

• Work with students individually and in small groups to assess learning styles, identify strengths, and uncover opportunities for academic development
• Provide individual or group tutoring to reinforce key concepts
• Participate in outreach to students with at-risk referrals
• Create and implement personalized remediation plans to support academic and professional success

NCLEX & Curriculum Support

• Demonstrate current, detailed, and accurate knowledge of concepts tested by the NCLEX-RN, as well as current nursing practice, to provide academic support
• Assist in the creation of Next Generation NCLEX activities and workshops

Simulation & Lab Experience

• Facilitate simulation-based experiences (SBE) and lab activities, including equipment maintenance, ordering supplies, set-up, and clean-up
• Assist in developing and implementing detailed, clinically based scenarios for simulated learning, including the use of high-fidelity patient simulators
• Coordinate and supervise lab experiences to ensure students have the opportunity to meet course objectives
• Staff open lab sessions and provide individual oversight to students during practice and/or remediation of technical nursing skills, as required by course objectives

Collaboration, Communication & Reporting

• Collaborate with faculty, academic partners, and staff to support student success
• Communicate and document (report) students’ academic and co-curricular progress toward achievement of student and program learning outcomes to academic leadership (e.g., retention committee)
• Demonstrate service excellence through friendliness, courtesy, professionalism, effective communication, and a commitment to first-class service for students, team members, and external partners

Additional Responsibilities

• Comply with all policies and standards
• Perform other duties as assigned

Why Join Us?

• Make a meaningful impact on future nurses and patient care outcomes
• Work in a collaborative, student-centered academic environment
• Blend teaching, coaching, and hands-on clinical simulation
• Contribute to innovative learning strategies, including Next Generation NCLEX preparation

Education & Licensure

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing required, Master’s Degree in Nursing preferred
• Active, unencumbered RN license
• BLS CPR certification required, ACLS and/or PALS certification preferred
• BLS CPR Instructor certification required)

Experience

• 1+ year experience supporting classroom instruction or tutoring in an academic environment is preferred

Skills & Competencies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills across phone, virtual, and in-person settings
• Analytical thinking with effective problem-solving ability
• High attention to detail, including proofreading accuracy
• Ability to collaborate with diverse student, faculty, and staff populations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Team-oriented with a collaborative, knowledge-sharing mindset

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $49199.33 and $86253.75. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

Covista offers a robust suite of benefits including:

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  
  For more information related to our benefits please visit:
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