Lecturer in Healthcare Management

About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Continuing

Position Summary

Availability:
Continuing | Full or Part Time
Compensation Grade:
Academic Level B
Salary Range:
$101,724 - $120,380 p.a.
Reporting to:
Dean (People & Resources), or Delegate
College/Portfolio College of Business, Government and Law
This Teaching Specialist (Clinical/Practitioner) position, with its primary focus on teaching and teaching-related activities and has an important role to play in the University’s achievement of its strategic plan, Making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda.
The University is committed to a student-centred ethos and to developing creative, enterprising, career-ready graduates prepared to become lifelong contributors to society. In accordance with the strategic plan, the University seeks to:
• deliver a richly interactive and personalised approach to learning focused
on student success;
• be an international leader in educational innovation, advanced learning
technologies and learning analytics; and
• develop enterprising graduates equipped with the skills required for
success in the knowledge economy.
The Lecturer in Health Care Management will contribute to excellence in teaching and learning across the suite of Health Care Management topics in the College of Business, Government and Law. Flinders Business is part of the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University, which includes teaching programs in Business, Government, Law and Criminology.
The College also includes three research centres: the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, the Jeff Bleich Centre for the US Alliance in Digital Technology, Security & Governance, and the Centre for Social Impact – Flinders.
Our mission is to embrace innovative knowledge and practice to tackle the challenges of our time, with a strategic focus on technology, health and social impact. Our mission defines our educational offerings, our research agenda, and our collaborations and partnerships.
The Lecturer in Health Care Management will be responsible for making an independent contribution to teaching and the scholarship of teaching using innovations in teaching practices and technologies to deliver excellence in teaching in health services and the development of the health management profession domestically and offshore.
They will be expected to draw upon their roles in clinical settings to develop industry partnerships for work integrated learning, deliver innovative placement models and provide contemporary and high-quality education.

Key Position Responsibilities

This position is predominantly concerned with teaching and teaching-related duties involving the creation, delivery, and continuous quality improvement of university-level education.  It includes (but is not limited to):

• direct teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience;

• curriculum design and review;

• delivery innovation;

• advancements in education technologies; and

• making an independent contribution to maintaining internal and external compliance and accreditation of courses.

The position is also expected to make an independent contribution to high-quality university, professional and community service. The position does not include making a research contribution.

Teaching:

• Create, coordinate, and conduct inspiring teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience, with a focus on Health Care Management topics, specifically digital health, innovation, operations management in Health and Aged Care, and supervision of students undertaking work integrated learning across all levels and modes of the College.

• Contribute to the planning and evaluation of these topics, undertaking the role of Topic Coordinator as required.

• Make an independent contribution to the review, renewal, development and design of curricula and courses that are attractive to existing and new cohorts of students and that nurture creativity and critical-thinking skills.

• Provide support, academic counselling and professional advice to students concerning their studies, professional development, and career opportunities.

• Make effective use of innovations and technologies in teaching practice.

University, Professional and Service:

• Participate in the College’s administrative activities such as membership of committees and working groups and attendance at College meetings.

• Maintain professional knowledge relevant to teaching within their discipline through scholarship and professional development.

• Engage in activities within a relevant external professional domain such as professional associations, conferences, and workshops, and within a wider community context at local, national or international level.

• Engage in, coordination of, development of and/or leading international activities including student mobility programs, internationalisation of curricula and ensuring the relevance of curricula to international students or that enhance intercultural skills development in students.

• Involvement in activities relating to internal and external compliance and professional accreditation of courses.

• Provide high quality contribution to community service on behalf of the College and University.

• Undertake activities that promote the development of productive partnerships to provide opportunities for students and promote graduate employability.

• The position may require you to undertake interstate and international travel as required.

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Doctorate in a relevant field or equivalent clinical/professional experience and standing in relevant field.

• Hold and maintain a current membership with relevant professional body.

• Relevant and contemporary clinical/professional experience in a relevant field including recent experience.

• Evidence of having independent and innovative contributions to teaching and the scholarship of teaching at the discipline level inclusive clinical/professional education.

• Evidence of an independent contribution to the development, delivery and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning strategies both in the classroom, including student assessment domestically and offshore.

• Evidence of accreditation experience is desirable. Demonstrated capacity to perform quality curriculum development and reviews; evidence of reflection of practice.

• Demonstrated understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research and scholarship.

• Participation in activities within relevant external professional domain and within a wider community context at local, national or international level.

• Consistent high evaluations by students of teaching with improvements shown. Demonstrated evidence of enhancing success for students including enhancing their retention and initiatives to facilitate their employability

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills an interpersonal skills, including the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with staff, students and industry.​

• Demonstrated effective cross-cultural communication skills, including the ability to liaise with and/or teach international students.

Prescribed Conditions for Employment
Flinders University has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy  that requires all new staff members to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, subject to medical exemptions and limited exemptions.

How to Apply

Please review the Key Position Capabilities above and submit a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages addressing the criteria. Applications without a Suitability Statement may not be considered. For more information, please see our How To Apply page.

For more information, or a confidential conversation, please contact Associate Professor Vipul Pare .

Information for Applicants:

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

05 Oct 2022