Adjunct Clinical Nursing Instructor

Job Description

The Nursing Department at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine is seeking Clinical Instructors to teach Clinical Student groups for the Fall 2026 semester.

Successful candidates will have a Master’s Degree in Nursing or a BSN degree with current enrollment in an MSN program; a currently active New Hampshire or compact license in good standing; two years of clinical nursing experience in the subject area; and teaching experience with traditional undergraduate nursing students preferred or precepting and orienting staff nurses.

The nursing department is looking for individuals with experience in Psych/Mental Health.

This is an ongoing recruitment effort as needs change each semester.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in nursing
• Minimum 5 years clinical experience in the subject area
• Team player
• Demonstrates an appreciation for the needs of the novice student nurse
• Excellent communication skills
• Positive attitude
• Flexibility

Preferred Qualifications

• MSN or enrolled in an MSN program
• Experience precepting or orienting staff nurses
• Experience supervising nursing students in the clinical setting

Applicants must be willing to support the mission and core values of Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.

Review of applications will begin immediately. Offers are contingent upon successfully passing a background check.

Additional Information

Saint Joseph’s College of Maine embraces justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as important cornerstones for academic excellence, student success, institutional and community resilience, and as vital expressions of our Catholic identity, Mercy Charism, and Core Values. We commit ourselves to nurturing highly competent and deeply compassionate leaders ready to serve in a vulnerable world.

Recognizing the dignity of all persons, we seek to address instances of injustice both within and outside our College community from a stance of informed advocacy. In this way we fulfill our core value of community, which calls on us to demonstrate a spirit of connectedness with one another through expressions of hospitality, courtesy, inclusivity, and collaboration. Saint Joseph's College is the community that grows community, preparing whole people to a whole world. 

Saint Joseph’s College is an EEO employer and applications from members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. We consider all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person’s race (including traits associated with race, including hair texture, Afro hairstyles, and protective hairstyles), color, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, genetic information, military status, sex or gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mental or physical disability, familial status, protected whistleblower activity, previous assertion of workers’ compensation claim, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Mission Statement

Saint Joseph's College of Maine, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and animated by the vision of Catherine McCauley, is a Catholic college in the liberal arts tradition distinguished by its welcoming community. We foster an on-going dialogue between faith and reason so as to prepare our learners to live meaningful lives that improve the world around them.

Vision Statement

In fulfillment of its mission, Saint Joseph's College of Maine will be a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative community that forms individuals who practice humility, justice, and compassion, as Jesus did, in solidarity with the marginalized.