Lecturer in Nursing

Apply now Job no:539192
Work type:Part-time
Location:Geelong - City, Melbourne - Burwood
Categories:Health

• Based at our Melbourne, Burwood Campus or Geelong, Waterfront Campus
• Part-time (0.8) and continuing
• Level B $104,619 - $123,739 + 17% Superannuation (pro rata part time)

Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus. We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities. 

The appointee will interact with staff in the  School,  Faculty, broader University, their peers in other universities, both nationally and internationally, and with community, professional and industry organisations. The appointee will liaise with students at all levels.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Education and Employability

• Apply First Nations knowledges and experience lens to inform and advise development of resources, assessment and student support.
• Maintain deep discipline knowledge which is applied to inform unit design
• Lead teaching teams to develop effective unit curricula and learning resources (including through unit leadership roles)
• Adopt new innovation in curriculum design at the unit level including integrating industry, clinical and/or research practice to teaching
• Deliver learner-centric, research-informed teaching practices across different levels / modes of delivery and apply creative teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
• Contribute to review of units and courses and implements refinements
• Provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners to demonstrate learning outcomes
• Develop effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit level
• Monitor and adapts assessment practices to improve learning outcomes
• Support diverse learners by designing accessible and inclusive unit material and practices
• Guide students to appropriate support services where appropriate
• Support the development of junior colleagues
• Contribute effectively to culture of educational excellence and engages collaboratively with peers
• Complete Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
• Assist in integrating new pedagogical research across all aspects of education

Research and Innovation

• Initiate, design and conduct and may lead productive, high-quality research, scholarship and creative activities generating high impact outputs
• Engage collaboratively to develop novel and high-quality research activities
• Widely communicate outputs to discipline(s) and the community
• Ensure impact of academic activity in the field and the community
• Initiate, design, conduct and may lead in development of industry partnerships and collaboration to enable major breakthroughs, innovative solutions for future translation into real world impact 
• Support and may lead in applications for external competitive and other funding, and demonstrates sustained efforts
• Build track record of timely delivery of outcomes for industry partners
• Supervise honours and/or HDR students with timely completions and productive, high-quality outcomes
• Adopt and promote a culture of research excellence, innovation and impact.

University Citizenship and Engagement

• Assist the implementation of local citizenship activities and contribute to effectiveness as an influencer
• Contribute to the implementation of specific aspects of University’s strategic agenda
• Assist the implementation of community engagement activities
• Contribute to the implementation of University’s community engagement agenda

Key selection criteria for this role:

• Eligible applicants are only persons: Being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent; and identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and accepted as such by Aboriginal community in which you live or which you once lived.
• Previous experience and knowledge of working with First Nations communities especially in teaching or nursing practice.
• Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia as a registered nurse.
• Postgraduate qualification in nursing or health related discipline
• Understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and peoples.
• Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for research and teaching
• Capacity to contribute to leadership of teaching, research and/or administration
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to establish good working relationships with colleagues
• Emerging reputation in research and scholarship through publications and/or success in obtaining external research funding

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 PD - Lecturer Nursing and Midwifery - 539192.pdf

Applications for this position close on Friday 9th June 2023

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Evidence of immunisation status
• National Police Check
• Working with Children Check (refer to Recruitment Procedure
• Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government. Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with any other directions or requirements in place at the third-party location.

Please submit your updated resume, a short cover letter and responses to the Key Selection Criteria.

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, please contact Nikki Phillips, Head of School on  [email protected].

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.

We understand that our academic workforce is increasingly diverse, and we recognise academic careers may be placed on hold throughout many life circumstances. Achievement relative to opportunity places more emphasis on the quality, as opposed to the quantity of research outputs. In your application, we strongly encourage you to comment on your achievements relative to opportunity.

In line with special measure provisions in Section 12 of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act (2010), the University will only be accepting applications for this position from people who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.