Address
Form of work
Salary- General Practice Clinical Unit - The University of Queensland
- Join a university ranked in the world's top 50
- Strong commitment and action toward a diverse and inclusive workforce
- Fast track your career with our early career academic development program
- Based at St Lucia Campus
About UQ
As part of the UQ community, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, and within an environment where interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.
At the core of our teaching remains our students, and their experience with us sets a foundation for success far beyond graduation. UQ has made a commitment to making education opportunities available for all Queenslanders, regardless of personal, financial, or geographical barriers.
As part of our commitment to excellence in research and professional practice in academic contexts, we are proud to provide our staff with access to world-class facilities and equipment, grant writing support, greater research funding opportunities, and other forms of staff support and development.
About This Opportunity
This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer with experience and expertise in Clinical Skills teaching, learning and assessment to focus their efforts on leveraging their established record of achievement in teaching (including clinical teaching, where appropriate), research and service and engagement. At this level, the appointee may coordinate or lead the activities of other staff and is expected to have an established record of scholarship of learning and teaching in medical education.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Teaching: Provide leadership in the delivery of the Clinical Skills program in Year 1 and Year 2 of the MD program in collaboration with the Academy of Medical Education academic staff and MD Learning Hub staff
- Contribute to Clinical Skills teaching program by tutoring two (2) small group learning sessions per week in your area of expertise (e.g., Clinical & Professional Learning, Clinical Communication Skills, or Procedural Skills)
- Contribute to other teaching, learning and assessment activities as required, including the OSCEs
- Research: Maintain an active record of producing quality research outputs consistent with discipline norms as lead contributor, by publishing or exhibiting in national research journals, other appropriate refereed publications, and conference publications
- Supervision and Researcher Development: Demonstrate and lead others in the responsible conduct of research.
- Demonstrate personal effectiveness in supervision and management and development of researcher capability and skill.
This is a teaching focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ's Criteria for Academic Performance.
This is a part-time (50%), continuing position.
At Academic level C. The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $132,201 - $152,202 plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $154,676- $178,076 annually.
The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.
About You
- An MBBS or equivalent medical qualification. Eligibility for registration as a medical practitioner in Australia and a clinical Fellowship (or evidence of progress towards a Fellowship) in a relevant field will be highly regarded.
- Demonstrated experience and capacity in the development and delivery of medical education materials relevant to small group settings, including simulation.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver workshops and seminars to support professional development.
- Highly developed organisational skills, and the ability to operate effectively in a complex working environment.
- Demonstrated academic leadership skills, including capacity for high-level interpersonal communication, collaboration, and the building of effective teams.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with colleagues.
- ·Evidence of a program of scholarly work in medical education and national recognition in this area
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships, and to represent and promote the discipline to academic, industry, government and professional bodies.
In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:
- Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.
- Mandatory Immunisations: It is a condition of employment for this role that you will be required to provide evidence of immunisation against certain vaccine preventable diseases.
- AHPRA: It is a condition of employment for this role that you are required to have and maintain Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration during the course of your employment Or eligibility to obtain registration.
Questions?
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Dr Jack Gilpin, Acting Head MD Learning Hub, via email on *********@uq.edu.au.
For application queries or a full job description, please contact ***********@uq.edu.au stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.
Want to Apply?
All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:
- Resume
- Cover letter
- Responses to the 'About You' section
Other Information
At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion. We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity, LGBTQIA+, cultural and/or linguistic, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, or people with a disability. Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to ***********@uq.edu.au
If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.
Applications close 26th March at 11.00pm AEST (R-35662). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled for 8th April.
