Senior Lecturer and Specialty Supervisor Medicine

Senior Lecturer and Specialty Supervisor (Medicine)

Apply locations Mater Misericordiae Hospital - South Brisbane

Time type:
Part time

Posted on:
Posted Yesterday

Job requisition id:
R-45141

• Mater Clinical Unit

• Full-time (20%), permanent position

• Base salary will be in the range $134,845 - $155,246+ 17% Superannuation (Academic Level C)

• Based at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital - South Brisbane

About This Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a Teaching Focussed Senior Lecturer within Medicine to expand their teaching impact through leadership at the program, discipline, or similar level. The successful candidate will coordinate or lead the activities of other staff aligned with UQ values. They will maintain an active role in internal and external collaborations that enable the development of others with evidence of increasing influence on teaching practices, policies, and/or knowledge.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Teaching:
  Contribute effectively to teaching, including course coordination, across internal and external modalities.

• Demonstrate continuous improvement in curriculum and assessment and motivate student participation and learning through effective pedagogies and the use of technologies.

• Lead/coordinate curriculum development that scaffolds and builds student learning across courses in programs, plans, majors etc.

• Research/Teaching Impact:
  Lead projects (internally, externally or unfunded) that address pressing educational problems or advance exciting new approaches in the discipline, School and/or Faculty with national recognition.

• Supervision and Researcher Development:
  Engage in supervision with a record of achievement in supervision outcomes.

• Citizenship and Service:
  Develop partnerships, demonstrate leadership through mentoring, engage in internal service roles and committees, perform administrative functions, provide support to colleagues, and uphold university values.

The preferred Academic Category for this position is Teaching Focused. Appointment under the Academic Category of Clinical Academic may be considered in discussion with the preferred candidate.

Teaching focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ's Criteria for Academic Performance.

Clinical academic position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ's Criteria for Academic Performance.

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you will 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.

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 the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

The newly established Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences will be an interdisciplinary powerhouse of innovation and collaboration to lead integrated solutions to the needs of the communities we serve locally and globally. UQ offers one of the widest ranges of health and behavioural sciences programs of any Australian university, and the ambition for this new Faculty will be to leverage its unified suite of esteemed schools, institutes and centres to unlock opportunities within UQ and with external partners.

About You

• Established record of teaching excellence and expertise at undergraduate, honours and postgraduate levels across a variety of settings, including small and large groups with course coordination responsibilities in the discipline.

• National recognition for teaching impact in the discipline and/or National profile in education research in the discipline and/or National research profile with high-quality outputs in the discipline.

• A record of successfully initiating and managing projects that improve curriculum, pedagogy, or assessment practices of others, with funded projects being particularly desirable and/or a record of contributing, sometimes leading, successful applications for significant research funds.

• Evidence of the involvement in the supervision of honours and Research Higher Degree students (where appropriate) to successful completion in education research and/or discipline research (where discipline is not education).

• Experience in educational leadership at the program, plan, or equivalent levels with evidence of effective impact on the teaching and/or assessment practices of peers.

• Evidence of leadership in curriculum development at the program and/or course level in the discipline area.

• A record of meaningful internal service roles, including the successful mentoring of less experienced staff, in conjunction with evidence of leadership in external activities.

• Well-developed communication, interpersonal and consultative skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in teaching and learning.

• A profile of professional expertise that complements and/or supplements the expertise that currently exists within the School and the broader University.

The following flexible employment options may be available for this role:
variable start or finish times; purchased leave.

The successful applicant may attract additional salary loadings (clinical and/or state) within this role, based on their qualifications and registrations and subject to approval.

In this role, you will be responsible for teaching and supervising medical students within the hospital. Applicants must hold, and maintain for the duration of this appointment, a clinical position at the Mater to be considered for this opportunity.

A Conjoint/Secondment arrangement with Queensland Health may be considered for a suitable applicant.

The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including right to work in Australia, education check, AHPRA registration, mandatory immunisations.

Work Rights:
You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply.

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