How to hire a health occupations instructor

How to hire a health occupations instructor, step by step

Here's a step-by-step health occupations instructor hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a health occupations instructor job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new health occupations instructor
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring a health occupations instructor, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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   A health occupations instructor's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, health occupations instructors from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list shows salaries for various types of health occupations instructors.

   Type of Health Occupations Instructor	Description	Hourly rate
   Health Occupations Instructor	Career and technical education teachers instruct students in various technical and vocational subjects, such as auto repair, healthcare, and culinary arts. They teach academic and technical content to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary to enter an occupation.	$18-48
   Adjunct Faculty	Adjunct faculty is the collective term for adjunct professors or lecturers. The adjunct faculty teaches students based on the limited-term of their contract... Show more	$21-73
   Teacher-In-Training	A teacher-in-training is a teaching professional who offers technical teaching assistance to teachers in developing effective behavior management and instructional strategies to support student learning. The teacher must collaborate with principals while employing diverse techniques to increase the effectiveness of student learning... Show more	$11-26

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Occupational Therapy
   • Medical Terminology
   • Employability
   • Physiology
   • CPR
   • Patient Care
   • Vital Signs
   • Health Science
   • State Board
   • Infection Control
   • Health Occupations
   • Clinical Procedures
   • BLS
   • Clinical Sites

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   Responsibilities:

   • Utilize blackboard management system to encourage online discussions and manage grades.
   • Provide assessment of high school age student and students with special needs.
   • Identify appropriate techniques for teaching and responding to literature, and ways to effectively use literacy to positively impact diversity education.
   • Focus on cardiology, surgical procedure, pharmacology.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your health occupations instructor job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A health occupations instructor can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, health occupations instructors' average salary in idaho is 45% less than in massachusetts.
   • Seniority. Entry-level health occupations instructors 61% less than senior-level health occupations instructors.
   • Certifications. A health occupations instructor with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a health occupations instructor's salary.

   Average health occupations instructor salary

   $62,730yearly

   $30.16 hourly rate

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   Entry-level health occupations instructor salary

   $39,000 yearly salary

   Updated January 23, 2026

4. Writing a health occupations instructor job description

   A good health occupations instructor job description should include a few things:

   • Summary of the role
   • List of responsibilities
   • Required skills and experience

   Including a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager is also appreciated by candidates. Here's an example of a health occupations instructor job description:

   Health occupations instructor job description example

   Wilmington College is RISING! Wilmington College is a career-oriented liberal arts institution affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends. Our beautiful main campus is located in southwestern Ohio.
   
   Wilmington College is accepting applications for a new full-time Instructor (administrative position with faculty rank) in the developing Master of Science Program in Occupational Therapy. This new program has been uniquely designed to train future practitioners, for work with diverse populations in a wide variety of settings, including rural health care.
   
   Our new colleague will begin serving at Wilmington College in the spring semester (January 2023). Applicants for the position must possess a minimum of a master's degree and be a licensed OTR in good standing. A minimum of three (3) year's experience in adult physical disabilities practice is preferred and the applicant must be willing to begin pursuit of a doctoral degree within six (6) months of hire. A doctoral degree and previous experience in teaching is a plus. the department is prepared to offer a skilled clinician the necessary support and mentoring to prepare them for the educator role.
   
   Wilmington College is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate unlawfully in employment matters based on race, religion, gender, color, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, or any other category protected by law. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package for full time positions including group medical, dental, vision, life and disability, retirement plan, tuition remission, paid vacation and holidays.
   
   We encourage candidates to review our website and learn about our history, what we are doing today, and how we are preparing for tomorrow. It is an exciting time here at Wilmington College!
   
   Interested applicants should submit a detailed cover letter and current resume/CV, unofficial transcripts and three professional references.
   
   Wilmington College conducts background investigations including criminal, work history, and credential information on all employees as a condition of continued employment. Employees must provide documentation of eligibility to work in the United States.
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5. Post your job

   To find the right health occupations instructor for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with health occupations instructors they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit health occupations instructors who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your health occupations instructor job on Zippia to find and recruit health occupations instructor candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites such as k12jobspot, learn4good, serious teachers, teachingjobs.com.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   To successfully recruit health occupations instructors, your first interview needs to engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. You can go into more detail about the company, the role, and the responsibilities during follow-up interviews.

   Remember to include a few questions that allow candidates to expand on their strengths in their own words. Asking about their unique skills might reveal things you'd miss otherwise. At this point, good candidates can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new health occupations instructor

   Once you've found the health occupations instructor candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   It's also good etiquette to follow up with applicants who don't get the job by sending them an email letting them know that the position has been filled.

   Once that's done, you can draft an onboarding schedule for the new health occupations instructor. Human Resources should complete Employee Action Forms and ensure that onboarding paperwork is completed, including I-9s, benefits enrollment, federal and state tax forms, etc. They should also ensure that new employee files are created for internal recordkeeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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