Adjunct Clinical Nursing Instructor (Manchester, NH) - St. Joseph's College of Maine

Keypath Education is supporting Saint Joseph’s College of Maine’s search for Clinical Instructors to teach Clinical Student groups for the Fall 2026 semester.

• Location: Manchester or Nashua, NH
• Job Type: Contract

Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy, Saint Joseph's College is Maine's only Catholic college. We offer to our 2000 on-campus and online students a unique mix of undergraduate, graduate, and non-degree programs with a strong liberal arts foundation. Our beautiful 474-acre Sebago Lake campus in Standish, Maine is located 30 minutes northwest of Portland, ME, and 2 hours North of Boston, MA. Fielding 21 intercollegiate varsity teams, the College also boasts a competitive Division III athletics program.

Additionally, the College provides certificates and undergraduate and advanced degrees for thousands more working adults who reside throughout the United States and in more than 20 other countries through an online learning program. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.

Saint Joseph's is nationally recognized for its successful integration of community service in its classroom learning and its sustainability performance. In 2015, the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions on campus and within local, regional, and global communities. In 2022, the College earned STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in recognition of its campus-wide sustainability achievements. This program is the most widely recognized in the world for reporting comprehensive information related to a college’s sustainability accomplishments.

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.

• 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.

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.