Placement Officer

Campus Location: Melbourne, AustraliaJob No: APTAV101021#004

• Do you have strong organisational skills and thrive in a fast paced environment?
• Multi-faceted role with opportunity to engage internal and external stakeholders
• Support the placement of our students as they gain professional experience
• Full time (35 hrs p/w), fixed term role to March 2025, based on our Melbourne campus

About ACU:Australian Catholic University (ACU) is an inclusive community which welcomes students and staff of all beliefs. ACU has over 2,500 staff supporting more than 34,000 students across eight campuses - Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, Strathfield, Blacktown and Rome.ACU aspires to be a home for our staff, offer the care of a family and develop an academic and professional community. Whatever your faith or culture, and whether you are academic or professional staff, there are many opportunities both for learning and contributing at ACU.As valued members of our community, all staff members are expected to have an understanding of ACU's and values and to demonstrate an active contribution to them.About the Faculty of Health Sciences:The Faculty of Health Sciences comprises three schools: Allied Health; Behavioural and Health Sciences and Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine. There are approximately 14,000 students (EFTSL) and 530 (FTE) staff in the faculty under the disciplines: occupational therapy, speech pathology, social work, exercise science, exercise physiology, nutrition science, biomedical science, nursing, midwifery, paramedicine, physiotherapy, psychology and public health. The faculty is represented across seven ACU campuses. The faculty's current research priorities focus on Cardiovascular Disease and Metabolism, Health Services Research, Nutrition, Sports Performance and Rehabilitation, Psychology and Mental Health. An expanding portfolio of postgraduate courses is also available in coursework and research. Further information about the faculty can be found at:About the Office of Associate Dean, Learning, Teaching and Professional Experience:The Office of the Associate Dean, Learning, Teaching and Professional Experience (OADLTPE) is a unit within the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), comprising the departments of Technical Services, Placement Services, FHS Learning and Teaching and the FHS Student led Health Clinics. Departments in the OADLTPE are responsible for providing support and service to schools in the faculty in the areas of clinical supervision, learning and teaching activity within the ACU Health Clinics and Specialised Learning Environments and tutorial, practical and laboratory classes where specialist equipment is required. OADLTPE facilitates excellent student learning experiences by supporting on campus learning and teaching activities within the state-of-the-art specialised learning environments across campuses including:

• Service to schools in relation to the professional practice placement of health sciences students; including maintenance of placement software, InPlace and tracking of pre-clinical mandatory requirements;
• Developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with ACU's valued clinical partners via the Clinical Schools model;
• Management of the faculty's Student led Health Clinics, currently operating in a range of disciplines; and
• Supporting the administration, resourcing and function of the faculty's specialised learning environments.

About Placement Services:Placement Services is a specialist unit within the OADLTPE in the Faculty of Health Sciences. The unit is dedicated to ensuring that every student in the faculty has access to appropriate, sustainable and high-quality professional practice placements. Placement Services works collaboratively to support internal and external stakeholders with high-level customer service to enable seamless placement administration and student placement experiences.About the role:Provide high level customer service to internal and external stakeholders that enable seamless placement administration support to the Faculty of Health Sciences at ACU.More specifically the role entails:

• Ensuring professional practice placements are organised and allocated to Faculty of Health Sciences students in a timely and efficient manner, in accordance with university and relevant Government regulations.
• Assisting Placement Services staff to ensure that all students meet compliance requirements for professional practice completion, including Police Checks, Working with Children checks/ Blue Cards and Immunisations.
• Utilising software packages, including InPlace, to publish information regarding professional practice placements in a timely manner.
• Allocating placement educators/supervisors to professional practice placements in consultation with Faculty of Health Sciences Placement Coordinators and/or academics.

For full position details, refer to the position description.Contact:General enquiries can be sent to Anna Raftis, Team Leader, Placement Services at: anna.raftis@acu.edu.auWhat we offer:

• The University pursues an excellence agenda and offers an environment where staff are welcomed and safe, and valued through development, participation and involvement.
• Total remuneration valued to $95,827 - $103,735 total rem (pro rata) pa, including salary component $80,975 - $87,658 (pro rata) pa (HEW 5), employer contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.
• 17% employer superannuation contributions to eligible continuing and fixed-term staff.
• Annual leave loading of an equivalent to 17.5% of four weeks' salary pro rata payable, dependent on your commencement date.
• As an ACU staff member, you will have access to generous benefits which include but not limited to: flexible work, study leave, a variety of leave provisions and salary packaging. Find out more information about the benefits or working at ACU

.How to Apply:Step 1: Review the Position Description and become familiar with and theStep 2: Click the 'View Position Description and Apply' button, and populate your candidate application details, including your:

• resume (maximum 5 pages).
• responses to the Selection Criteria and Core Competencies in a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) or in the online Declaration and Criteria application page.
• brief online responses to any pre-screening employment questions.

Candidates must hold Australian work rights to apply for this position. For permanent/continuing roles, applicants must have permanent work rights. For further information visitActing in , ACU is dedicated to the dignity of the human person through equitable and respectful opportunities for . ACU can offer support for candidates that may require adjustments through the recruitment process.Your of personal information is maintained in accordance with ACU policy. For more details visit:Applications close: 08-MAY-2024 at 11:59pm AUS Eastern Standard TimeACU does not accept candidate applications submitted by external recruitment agencies through the ACU careers website.