Senior Technical Officer

Job Description

This is a full-time continuing position at a HEP 6, $82,372 - $ 89,161 classification, plus 17% superannuation, working 36.75 hours per week.

• Be part of a team that takes pride in facilitating the learning experience for our diverse range of students
• Deliver high quality technical support and advice to our undergraduate and postgraduate students, research and teaching staff.
• Use your skills and experience in a busy, vibrant and state of the art tertiary education environment.

About the Role

The overall purpose of the Senior Technical Officer (Clinical Health) is to provide a high level of technical support to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as Academic and Research staff in the areas of physiotherapy, dietetics, speech pathology and clinical health, within the College of Health and Biomedicine and College of Sport and Exercise Science facilities. The Senior Technical Officer (Clinical Health) will be required to utilise a large range of skills including the use, maintenance, and calibration of specialised equipment and the purchase of new equipment and laboratory/clinical consumables

About the Person
You will be working in the Technical Services department at Victoria University.  The department is a shared service providing support to the University Colleges, Research Institutes and Victoria University Polytechnic (VU’s TAFE division).  This role provides services into all sectors as required. Your experience and knowledge of the physiotherapy, speech pathology and dietetics disciplines, along with your commitment to providing a positive student experience will assist you in delivering on Victoria University’s vision to empower a diverse community of students, to grow their capabilities and transform their lives.   

Duties

An example of duties you may perform will include:

• Coordinate the use of all relevant teaching and research facilities and equipment and implement, develop and comply with associated systems, policies and procedures including OHS, biosafety, chemicals, accreditation, manuals, standard operating procedures and risk assessments.
• Provide high level technical expertise and direction to staff and students on equipment selection, experiments and techniques.
• Ensure all requirements for practical teaching classes, simulation learning classes, research and consultancy activities are met in a timely fashion; including the availability of consumables, health care supplies and equipment and set-up and pack-up of experiments, simulated learning laboratories and practical classes.
• Under broad direction, schedule work in an efficient and effective manner to meet the priorities of staff and students. 
• Conduct facility and equipment inductions, including manikin based computers and technical audio-visual equipment for staff and undergraduate and postgraduate students and ensure all end users are appropriately trained.
• Participate in clinical and simulation scenario development with regard to technical scenario logistics and fulfil the technical aspects of role delivery as documented in scenario templates.
• Maintain equipment and consumable inventory and storage systems for designated teaching and research laboratories for security and service purposes.
• Maintain, repair and calibrate laboratory equipment; including clinical and simulation learning laboratory equipment and associated technology, simulation manikins and teaching models. Ensure all equipment is operational and accreditation procedures are followed. Use initiative to troubleshoot equipment solutions. Liaise with external agencies and equipment suppliers to maintain/develop knowledge in discipline specific technological advances.
• Source equipment, consumables and any other materials required for teaching and research, liaise with external suppliers for quotations, submit purchase orders as required, receipt goods and liaise with Finance staff to process invoices.
• Conduct administrative tasks including budgeting when required.
• Provide support to the Technical Manager and mentor, train and supervise other technical staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students when required.

Skills & Expertise

A full list of selection criteria is available in the Position Description.

Applicant must have a proven ability to plan, prioritise and coordinate the operation of the clinical and technical requirements of simulated learning environments and skills practice sessions. 

Benefits

• Salary sacrifice options
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements available
• Paid study leave

How to apply:

For a Position Description, please click here .

Applicants MUST submit:

• a brief cover letter,
• resume; and
• responses that address the selection criteria, which can be found in the Position Description.

Note: Applications will not be considered if the relevant documents have not been submitted.

 

For further information relating to the recruitment process, please contact Maxim Zervos, People & Culture Officer by email at [email protected] .

Applications close 11:59pm on Sunday the 22nd of January, 2023.

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.