**Job no**: 532042
**Work type**: Part-time
**Location**: Geelong - City
**Categories**: Health
- Based at the Geelong Clinical School (HERB)
- Part-time (.8 FTE) and continuing
- Level A $74,024 - $99,512 (pro-rata) + 17% Superannuation
Founded in 1974, Deakin is a public university in Victoria with 61,000 students across five campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, and the online Campus.
We are a progressive and open-minded university, with the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world’s universities.
The Clinical Skills Educator will be responsible for supervising and teaching clinical skills as part of a team of educators delivering an established clinical skills curriculum to Year 3 and 4 students at the Geelong Clinical School.
**Your key responsibilities will include**:
- Education and Employability_
- Maintain appropriate discipline knowledge
- Demonstrate awareness of ongoing innovation in curriculum design
- Deliver effective teaching practices within unit adapting learning material and practices to support diverse learners
- Conduct self-evaluation practices and constructively review and refine own teaching practice to help maintain teaching quality standards
- Suggest approaches to innovate teaching practices to improve student success and engagement
- Assist in developing effective assessment tasks and rubrics at unit level and provide clear assessment criteria and timely feedback to learners
- Constructively contribute to moderation processes
- Maintain knowledge of student support and services and guide students to them where appropriate
- Demonstrate understanding of and commitment to educational excellence
- Complete professional development programs in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
- Support and assist with teaching scholarship and pedagogical research activity
- Implementation of Workplace-based Assessment including via the Learning Needs Analysis process
- Developing learning environments that are adaptable, student centred and accessible, and utilising appropriate technology (e.g.
Cloud
Deakin online resources and workplace-based assessment digital platforms).
- Assisting with the delivery of clinical skills assessment.
- Making Make a significant contribution to the development and delivery of Indigenous Health learning and assessment activities, in consultation with the School’s Indigenous Health Professional Education Team, and assisting with Unit administration
- Research and Innovation_
- Contribute to research and scholarly publication and participating in research impact activities
- Participate in the development and implementation of collaborative research projects
- University Citizenship and Engagement_
- Contribute to Deakin community and its effectiveness via local engagement and citizenship activities
- Understand the objectives and outcomes to be delivered by the University’s strategic agenda
- Contribute to community beyond Deakin via engagement activities
- Support Deakin community engagement plan
- Performing administrative tasks commensurate with position responsibilities and contribute to processes that enable the effective operation of the School and Faculty
- Ensure compliance of areas of responsibility with all legislative requirements and University policies including equity and equal opportunity
**Key selection criteria for this role**:
- Qualifications and experience in the relevant discipline area including an Undergraduate Degree in a health discipline (e.g., Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy)
- Demonstrated capacity and passion for leadership of teaching, research and/or administration
- Ability to teach in Clinical Skills at undergraduate level and a willingness to develop an understanding of the University’s principles in relation to teaching, learning and the student experience
- Capacity to contribute to the faculty’s undergraduate teaching program in a manner that influences, motivates and inspires students to learn
- Ability to contribute to the development of curricula and teaching resources
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, colleagues and the public: verbally and in writing
- Emerging research and scholarship through publications
- Competence in developing and delivering Indigenous Health learning and assessment activities, in consultation with the School’s Indigenous Health Professional Education Team
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to the development of professional partnerships, including as part of a clinical role where relevant.
- Ability to make a contribution to community engagement for research and teaching
**Applications for this position close on Monday January 23.**
- Successful applicants will need to comply with vaccination mandates imposed by the relevant state/territory government.
Applicants who attend third-party sites to undertake University activities will also be required to comply with an
📌 Clinical Skills Educator
🏢 Deakin University
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