Externship Coordinator- Medical Assisting - Los Angeles
1 day ago
Job description
At American Career College, we share a passion for students and transforming healthcare education As an associate for a certified Great Place to Work, you will join a collaborative, student-centric culture valuing academic integrity, mutual respect, student learning, service, responsiveness, innovation, diversity, and stewardship.
As a part of this team, you will guide students to do more than change their own lives – you will help change the lives of every patient they care for throughout their career.
You Will Make An Impact By
Coordinating, facilitating, and supervising the externship training, includeing student transition from class work to externship to graduate in preparation for placements.
Locating, maintaining and acquiring new externship sites and contracts; schedules and supervises students' externship assignments; advises students and provides classroom instruction in accordance with the program's objectives.
Assisting students in gaining meaningful employment in jobs applicable to their field of study. Guides students with the job search process, including teaching workshops and critiquing resumes.Providing excellent customer service to current and graduating students in accordance with the mission and purpose of the college.
Coordinating and assisting graduates with job interviews and obtaining entry level healthcare career opportunities.
Your Experience Includes
Establishes, acquires, and maintains contracts with extern sites using the approved college agreement; maintains accurate extern site information database, including contact information and specific contractual agreement termination and expiration dates, and initiates renewal process timely.
Works with extern staff to clarify policies and procedures specific to facility.
Places predetermined number of students per week into externship opportunities with local employers.
Achieves the established program extern-to-placement conversion percentage goals.
Maintains established department policies and procedures; attends in-services and other required meetings.
Maintains confidentiality of all student, associate, and/or college information as required.
Advises students about externship site choices and assigns students to extern sites as appropriate.
Monitors sites to include, phone or on site visits, mediates conflicts, establishes specific learning objectives, determines and records attendance concerns.
Tracks externship attendance and ensures that all extern assignments are completed as determined by the program.Coordinates a plan to best observe, instruct, and evaluate students learning and practical skills which includes a direct observation assessment of skills in applicable setting for related area of instruction.
Apprises extern staff of student objectives in each program area.Validates with extern staff the effectiveness of student placement and progress in meeting mutually established objectives to ensure that the experience is adequate, and that the student is achieving a satisfactory level of performance.
EducationHigh school graduate or equivalent required.
Must be a graduate from a program accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S.
Secretary of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the specialty field or the subject area in which they teach.
Do you want a career that allows you to make a difference in other people's lives? Discover what it means to truly believe in the work that you do at American Career College.
For more than 40 years American Career College has had the privilege of educating students seeking careers in healthcare—guiding them through their transformational journey from student to caregiver.
Our associates are united behind that purpose and share a deep commitment to our values of teamwork, collegiality, transparency, and a student-centric approach to all we do.
This focus creates an aligned, nimble, and consensus-driven culture that is solution-oriented and supports our associates' professional growth.American Career College is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all associates.
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