Job title: Associate Lecturer in Rural Health Education
Company: The University of Melbourne
Job description: Role type: Full-time/Part-time (0.6-1.0 FTE); Fixed-term until 31st of December, 2024
Faculty: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: Department of Rural Health, Melbourne Medical School
Salary: Level A – $80,258 – $108,906 p.a. (pro rata for part-time) plus 17% super
- Innovate educational resources for nursing and allied health students undertaking rural placements.
- Designing and delivering education programmes to support student learning.
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, and a 25% discount on graduate courses for our staff and their immediate families!
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative educator to join the Department of Rural Health’s Going Rural Health team. You will have the chance to design and develop cutting-edge educational resources, modules, and workshops aimed at enhancing the rural placement experience for nursing and allied health students. This role offers the unique opportunity to travel across rural regions, delivering education programmes to support students in achieving their learning goals. Join our dynamic team dedicated to enriching the educational experience and making a meaningful impact on rural healthcare.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Design and develop new and innovative approaches to education using diverse delivery modes for students undertaking a rural placement and their supervisors
- Design and develop, support, maintain and promote accessible educational resources for Going Rural Health students and supervisors
- Deliver education, training, educational resources and online modules to students undertaking a rural clinical placement and their supervisors
- Employ evidence-based approaches to education, teaching and student placements
Who We Are Looking For
You excel in collaborating with diverse communities and understand rural healthcare dynamics. Your expertise lies in fostering partnerships with local stakeholders to enhance healthcare access and education in rural areas.
You will also have:
- Qualification in a nursing or allied health discipline
- Experience in providing education or training sessions to nursing or allied health students or professionals
- Experience in student support, individual mentoring and/or one-on-one education
- Experience in developing curriculum and education to address specific practice needs
- Demonstrated innovation in nursing and allied health education
- Commitment to working in multidisciplinary settings and adopting interprofessional approaches
For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.
This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn’t have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
Your New Team – Department of Rural Health
The Department of Rural Health, part of the prestigious Melbourne Medical School at the University of Melbourne, has been making a significant impact on rural healthcare for more than 20 years. With locations in Shepparton, Ballarat, and Wangaratta, as well as associations with over 40 rural towns in Victoria, we are dedicated to providing professional health education and research training in a rural context. Our mission is to grow and develop the rural health workforce. We achieve this through strong partnerships with the local community and healthcare providers, ensuring our programs remain relevant and connected.
What We Offer You!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out page!
About the University of Melbourne
We’re tightly connected with both the metropolitan and rural communities. We take pride in our people, who all contribute to our mission to benefit society through the transformative impact of education and research. Discover more via and stay connected with our stories and people on .
Be Yourself
The University of Melbourne values the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and welcomes and celebrates diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information, please visit page.
We are dedicated to ensuring barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit the most talented candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact Kim Groizard at , with an email containing your name and contact details for a confidential discussion. Please ensure your email is titled “Reasonable Adjustments Request”.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians, with unprecedented investment to attract, nurture and retain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. Tangible support through a range of programs and initiatives will ensure that you personally succeed and flourish while at the University of Melbourne.
For further information, including our 2023-2027 Indigenous strategy please visit –
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
- The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)
^For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Tara via email at , ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any questions regarding the job, please follow the details listed on the Position Description.
Applications close: 02 Apr 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Company
The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.
Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.
Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.
Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.
Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.
The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.
In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.
More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.
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*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015
Company info Telephone +61 (3) 8344 4000 Location
Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia
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