Principal Practice Educator (Counselling)

• School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work

• Facilitate inter-professional learning for counselling students

• Plan for your future with a generous 17% superannuation allowance 

• Access a range of on-site services, facilities, museums, and events 

• Based at the vibrant St Lucia campus with some travel to various placement locations

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to flexible working arrangements including flexible start/finish times

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day)

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity

A great opportunity is available for a Principal Practice Educator in Counselling to join the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. As the Principal Practice Educator, you will contribute to the professional education for the Master of Counselling student cohort through supervision of students in clinical, preclinical and practice settings.

Key responsibilities will include practice education, placements, and administration. These will include, but are not limited to:

• Applying recent professional experience to facilitate uni-professional and inter-professional practice learning in a variety of settings.

• Contributing to the development of practice related courses, direct and advanced practice, teaching plans, materials for practice-based learning and assessment.

• Facilitating evaluation and research of practice learning.

Organising and implementing processes for:

• Locating placements

• Assessing student learning needs

• Allocating students to placements

• Ensuring students achieve required hours / meet requirements in accordance with relevant accredited programs.

• Implementing appropriate administrative processes for the unit and optimising the use of corporate systems such as InPlace.

• Ensuring placement arrangements are in accordance with the professional accreditation body.

• Contributing to the training and preparation of preceptors, clinical teaching fellows and casual supervisors.

• Performing a range of administrative functions in the student-led clinics.

Special Considerations

This role may include the following travel, out of hours work, and leave considerations:

• The provision of services and/or attendance at events outside of normal business hours, as required.

• The position is based at St Lucia campus, however some work will occur off campus as dictated by placement locations.

• It is expected that planned leave will be taken outside of primary practice teaching periods that align with the academic calendar or practice placement periods.

This is a part-time (40%), continuing position.

At HEW level 7, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $96,649 - $105,244, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $113,080 - $123,136 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

About You

Ideally, you will be able to demonstrate:

• A degree in a relevant discipline and evidence of continuous professional development.

• Ability to leverage recent industry experience and knowledge of the health and social care sector to deliver current evidence-based approaches, guidance, and supervision in the area of practical based education.

• Demonstrated ability to positively develop and manage strong working relationships with external and internal stakeholders across a wide client base.

• Demonstrated experience in exercising tact, judgment, and discretion when dealing with confidential and personal matters.

• Experience and sound skills in using software packages to support reporting, stakeholder management, and program functions.

• Previous supervisory skills of practice education students including but not limited to supervision, educational evaluation, instructing in a variety of learning environments (including simulation) and contributing towards assessment.

• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate, communicate and report back to various stakeholders across the School, University, and external providers.

• An understanding of the demands and opportunities within a complex and multidisciplinary practice and/or inter-professional teaching environment and previous experience managing and prioritising these tasks effectively.

• Demonstrated leadership skills and the ability to negotiate to achieve the best possible outcomes in an environment that provides a high level of customer service.

The following criteria will be highly regarded but are not essential:

• Postgraduate qualification.

• Extensive experience in practice education.

• Relevant student supervisory experience in practice.

• Experience in facilitating inter-professional learning in practice.

• Exposure to student administration, instructing and learning activities or other similar educational environments.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Mandatory Immunisations: It is a condition of employment for this role that you will be required to provide evidence of immunisation against certain vaccine preventable diseases.

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Claire Turner at [email protected] . For application queries, or to request a copy of the full position description, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Tuesday 2nd April 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-36796).