Assistant/Associate Professor - Physical Therapy

At Winston-Salem State University ( WSSU), our new strategic plan WSSU 2030 Unleash the Genius commits our employees to create a unique, responsive learning experience that unleashes the genius of each student. Our employees must provide our students with a high-quality educational experience in a culturally engaging campus environment where they thrive as learners, scholars, and leaders. To actualize this outcome, we must have strong, visionary faculty committed to delivering quality instruction, student success inside and outside the classroom, engaging the community and inter/professional organizations within the academic discipline, and producing original scholarship that adds to the body of knowledge within the professional discipline and/or interprofessional field; moreover, our faculty must collaborate with internal and external constituents to achieve the institution's vision of advancing equity and upward mobility.

The Department of Physical Therapy, within the School of Health Sciences at Winston-Salem State University ( WSSU), currently has nine full-time faculty members and offers small class sizes of 30 students. Our program boasts one of the most diverse student bodies in the nation. The Doctor of Physical Therapy ( DPT) program follows a primarily face-to-face, 12-month curriculum. We seek candidates who will contribute to our dynamic, collaborative, and motivated physical therapy core faculty

We are currently accepting applications for Three full-time, 12-month faculty positions in Physical Therapy, with opportunities for either tenure-track or clinical-track appointments at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. Specifically, we invite candidates who have contemporary expertise or teaching experience in one or more of the following areas: orthopedic assessment and interventions, neuromuscular assessment and intervention (including adult or pediatric), and basic clinical and/or foundational sciences.

The successful candidates will contribute to graduate course instruction and development, provide guidance as faculty advisors, mentor students, and conduct scholarly research leading to publications in peer-reviewed journals within the discipline and/or interprofessional field. The ideal candidates will also have a commitment to presenting at professional conferences, actively pursuing extramural funding in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, participating in departmental, school, and university service, as well as engage in service to the profession and the larger Winston-Salem and Forsyth County community.

FL Atkins, Room 330

8 am - 5 pm, M - F

We seek candidates who demonstrate excellence in teaching and interest in working collaboratively to enhance the strengths of our entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy curriculum and transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy program. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a commitment to excellence in teaching physical therapy to students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. They should illustrate an ability to leverage various technologies that engage students in the learning process. We desire candidates who can show evidence of mentoring graduate students in research experiences or who have experience engaging students in study abroad or community service learning where they must leverage their content knowledge to benefit the larger community. We seek candidates who demonstrate the ability to participate in interdisciplinary teaching and research collaborations with professional colleagues at the university, across universities, or within the broader public. Candidates must also show a commitment to their professional growth and development and engage in inter/professional organizations and conferences.

A North Carolina Physical Therapy license or eligible for NC Licensure

The successful candidate will perform a variety of duties consistent with the expectations of WSSU including the following:

12 months

Please Note: This Position is subject to the successful completion of an employment background check If no applicants apply who meet the required competency and T&E requirements, then management may consider other applicants. Salary would be determined based on competencies, equity, budget, and market considerations. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completing an electronic application. The application must be completed in full detail (including work history) for your qualifications to be considered. Failure to complete the application completely may result in you not being considered for the vacant position. Your application for the position will not be complete until you receive an online confirmation number at the end of the process of applying for a position.