About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:
Continuing

Position Summary
Continuing, full-time

Compensation Grade:
Academic Level B

Salary Range:
$99,827 - $118,135 pa

Reporting to:
Dean, People and Resources (or Delegate)

Social Work at Flinders University sits within the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. Social Work staff and students are driven by individual and community capacity building, aiming to lead social justice initiatives and educational and social transformation. We work with courage and integrity to create a high performance and engaging culture driven by curiosity, innovation, endeavour and success.

Flinders Social Work attracts students from throughout Australia and internationally into our accredited undergraduate and postgraduate social work degrees due to its world-standard research, ever-deepening partnerships with major industry stakeholders, highly skilled teachers with practical social work experience and an embedded passion to solving the problems of social injustice

The Flinders Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) is a leading national social work research centre, undertaking research that uses evidence and lived-experience expertise, to create and trial innovative solutions to pressing issues in practice. SWIRLS' 'Living Lab' approach brings together skilled researchers, research higher degree and post-doctoral scholars, policy makers, social work practitioners and related professions to collaborate, innovate and co-design answers to complex social problems.

The Lecturer will, under routine to general supervision, contribute to quality research and the planning and delivery of topics within the suite of undergraduate and/or postgraduate topics/courses in Social with a focus on trauma informed approaches to practice in palliative care, loss and grief and related areas, including a focus on skills development.

This position will be responsible for development of teaching materials, delivery of lectures/tutorials or other innovative teaching and learning strategies, examinations and placement education. Also contribute to strengthening existing partnerships or exploring new partnerships with external stakeholders that have potential for providing improved teaching, learning and/or research outcomes for the University.

The Lecturer will be involved in high quality research, including working in teams to attract competitive research grants and other sources of funding, publishing manuscripts in high impact journals and supervision of research higher degree students.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Lecturer is accountable for:

• Contributing to teaching in trauma informed approaches to practice in palliative care, loss and grief and related areas, including a focus on skills development.
• Contributing to the planning, delivery and evaluation of lectures, tutorials, laboratory-based material or other teaching strategies, including placement education for topics, primarily within the suite of undergraduate and/or postgraduate topics/courses and undertake topic coordination.
• Delivering inspiring and innovative teaching informed by approaches that enhance the student experience and support students with academic and/or other challenges impeding their academic progress.
• Participating and contributing to ethical, high quality and innovative research and evaluation through activities such as scholarship, quality publication, external grant acquisition and presentation that aligns with the College areas of research strength and focus and contribute to supervision of student research programs.
• Actively participating in College internal and external quality assurance and accreditation processes.
• Actively participating in high performing multi-disciplinary teams with an education and research focus and contribute to the development of a respectful, trusting and collaborative working environment.
• Developing and maintaining strategic relationships and networks with a range of stakeholders including industry and professional associations and organisations.
• Actively contributing to the integration and management of aspects of the academic and administrative life of the College.
• Undertaking any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Note: Some out of hours work (including weekends) as well as rural SA, interstate and overseas travel, may be required.

Key Position Capabilities

• Eligibility for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers
• Completion of a PhD, or equivalent qualification.
• Demonstrated evidence of or capacity to undertake high quality teaching in a tertiary environment, including involvement in topic coordination and curriculum design.
• Demonstrated evidence of a strong research track record (for career stage) in an area aligned with research strengths in The Social Work Innovation Research Living Space (SWIRLS) and The Social Inquiry and Wellbeing Research Section, including evidence of quality publications and attraction of external competitive grants.
• Demonstrated understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research and scholarship.
• Demonstrated capacity to contribute to leadership in the area of curriculum reviews and internal and external accreditation activities.
• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships with staff, students and industry.
• Demonstrated experience or capability to engage with e-learning platforms for teaching purposes.
• Demonstrated experience and successful track record in supervision of honours and higher degree students (Desirable).

For application enquiries please contact: Associate Professor Lorna Hallahan

Pursuant to Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (SA) this position has been deemed prescribed. It is an inherent requirement of the position that the successful candidate maintains a current Working With Children Check which is satisfactory to the University.

Information for Applicants:

You are required to provide a suitability statement of no more than three pages, addressing the key capabilities of the position as outlined above. In addition, you are required to upload your CV.

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59 pm:

13 Oct 2021