Clinical Placements Officer

Job Description

• Work in a collaborative team environment
• Showcase your exceptional organisational and communication skills
• The position is located at our Footscray Park Campus (hybrid working arrangement)

About Us:

At Victoria University, our aim is to be a global leader in dual-sector learning and research by 2028. Join us on the journey and help us achieve our strategic drives embedded in our Strategic Plan 2022-2028: Start well, finish brilliantly. One of the drivers “Thriving place to Study and Work” will enable us to continue to create places that our students and staff love to belong and feel immense pride.

About the role:

As a Clinical Placement Officer you will be supporting our students and industry placement partners to coordinate and deliver real world experience opportunities to get our students job ready. This role involves delivering excellent customer service, liaising with internal and external stakeholders and using the placement management systems to support compliance and accreditation requirements. 

An example of duties you may perform will include:

• Verifying students mandatory documentation submissions
• Liaising with placement providers  
• Communicating with students regarding their placement requirements
• Coordination, allocation and monitoring of students placements using InPlace (VU WIL) and other placement management systems

This is a full time fixed-term maternity cover position for 12 months at a HEP 5, $73,852 - $84,831 plus 17% superannuation, classification working 36.75 hours per week.

About the person:

If you have good communication and customer service skills with diverse groups, high attention to detail and experience in a clinical placement and/or higher education environment then this is the role for you.

We are looking for a motivated candidate that can work both independently and within a fast paced team, and prioritise workloads effectively. 

What We Offer:

For information on our employee benefits, flexible working, discounts in private health insurance and gym memberships and salary packaging please visit https://www.vu.edu.au/staff/benefits-services-for-staff  

How to apply

To view a copy of the position description, please click here . Your application must include: 

• A cover letter,
• Your curriculum vitae/resume, 
• Evidence of applicable qualifications, licences and registrations
• Responses to the Key Selection Criteria listed in the Position Description 

 

Application Closing Date: Monday the 1st of April 2024 (11:59pm AEDT)
Who Do You Contact?

For further information relating to the position, please contact Kimberley Patel, Clinical Placement Coordinator - Allied Health at [email protected].
 

Our Commitment to Protecting Country: 

Victoria University honours its deep diversity as a foundation for collaboration and social progress. We will demonstrate sensitivity in respecting First Nation perspectives. We will ensure that we respect our Indigenous voices and commit to sustainable Protecting Country. We will take leadership responsibility, in all that we do, to improve the health and wellbeing of our local and global communities, and the planet that we share. 

Victoria University is committed to inclusion, equity and diversity. VU encourages applications from women, gender diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and individuals from under-represented backgrounds in this field.
 

About Us
Victoria University (VU) is the  University of the West .
For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.
We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.
Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.
The VU Values are that we are always:
• welcoming
• ethical
• shaping the future 
• together.
This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.
At VU we believe diversity is a strength – the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.
With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.