Lecturer, Nursing

• Department of Nursing and Allied Health
• Full-time, ongoing position at our Hawthorn campus
• Academic level B + 17% Super and benefits with flexible working options

About the Role 
Are you passionate about enhancing nurse education and research? Do you thrive on collaboration and innovation? The Department of Nursing and Allied Health are currently seeking a dedicated Lecturer in Nursing to join our rapidly expanding team to work to enhance the quality and delivery of nurse education and research at Swinburne. This role will work in collaboration with the Discipline Lead, Course Director and academic colleagues across the school and the health sector to achieve these objectives.

As a Lecturer, you will play a key role in developing and reviewing Nursing and Allied Health courses, utilising blended models of unit delivery, and contributing to ongoing curriculum development of units offered by the discipline. With a focus on enriching the opportunities of colleagues and students in the delivery of practice-based education and research within the discipline, you will carry out educational and curriculum development of both online and on campus learning materials and assessments in nursing, facilitate the overall coordination of units, and progress research and scholarship aligned to school strategic direction.

In this role, you will be expected to develop and contribute to research activities in the School of Health Sciences in Nursing, health services and/or pedagogy and will carry out appropriate activities that will maintain and develop your scholarly, research and/or professional expertise.

About You  
To be suitable for this role you will need to have experience in the below key accountabilities: 

• Demonstrated capacity to contribute to research teams and partnerships and in practice research supervision to achieve high impact research outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in tertiary teaching including a record of co-ordination, teaching in nurse education.
• Experience with online learning and teaching methods in nursing education including creation or use of leading edge/best practice delivery methods such as flexible delivery formats.
• Proven clinical experience in nursing or health care.
• A high degree of organisational and administrative skills and capacity to contribute to management of course and program delivery.

Qualifications

• A Masters qualification appropriate to the nursing discipline.
• AHPRA registration as a Registered Nurse or equivalent Health Professional qualifications/credentials.

About Swinburne University of Technology 
Swinburne Horizon 2025 draws upon our understanding of future challenges. With this new strategic plan, we choose to build Swinburne as the prototype of a new and different university – one that is truly of Technology, of Innovation and of Entrepreneurship, and proud of it. We are committed to a differentiated university proposition in education and research, so that:

• Every Swinburne learner gets a work experience
• Every Swinburne graduate gets a job
• Every Swinburne partner gets a tech solution
• Swinburne is the prototype of global best practice

The achievement of our 2025 moon shots depends on our capacity to work collectively, always, as One Swinburne.

To Apply 
Please submit your CV and cover letter addressing your suitability for this position.  

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For more information about this role, please contact Associate Professor Julie Shaw – *********@swin.edu.au 

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.

If you are experiencing technical difficulties with your application, please contact the Swinburne Talent Acquisition Team on ***************@swin.edu.au. 

Applications Close: 11:59pm on Sunday, 17 March 2024.

Swinburne offers flexible working options, leave and parenting/carer policies to support work life balance.

Equity and Diversity 
Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation and we are proud of our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives.  For further information on all our initiatives visit our Equity & Diversity website.

We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply.

We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates. If you have specific accessibility or support requirements please contact *********@swin.edu.au

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We welcome and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.  

For any support please contact *************@swin.edu.au or for more information on our Indigenous strategies please follow the link to our RAP Reconciliation Action Plan

Victoria’s Commitment to Action: Improving international student employment outcomes 
As a signatory to Victoria’s Commitment to Action, Swinburne seeks to remove barriers to international graduate employment. We welcome and encourage applications from international graduates.  

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant
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