School of Nursing and Midwifery
Start your career in shaping students futures through real-world learning.
Who you are
Are you passionate about helping students succeed in their chosen career path? Start your UniSQ journey as a Work?Integrated Learning Officer, where you will be the key in connecting students with the practical experiences that prepare them for meaningful careers in the nursing and midwifery space.
You'll thrive in this role if you:
* Are a proactive, problem-solver who enjoy coordinating complex processes.
* Build rapport easily with students, staff, and external partners utilising your strong communication skills.
* Are motivated by student success and are committed to ensuring that the best outcomes for students are achieved.
What you'll do
In this dynamic role, you will support students, academic staff, and industry partners to bring Work?Integrated Learning (WIL) to life—ensuring every placement is well?organised, compliant, and enriching. You'll be part of a team that directly influences graduate employability and enhances UniSQ's reputation for producing skilled, career?ready health professionals. You will:
* Coordinate student placements, guiding them through the entire journey, including documentation, compliance checks and issue resolution.
* Promote UniSQ's programs and build relationships with host organisations.
* Assess placement site suitability, ensuring safety and compliance obligations are met.
* Support the delivery of WIL information sessions and create accessible online resources.
What will help you succeed
Your background will ideally include experience supporting work placements, internships, compliance processes, or working within the tertiary or vocational education sector. To excel in this position, you will bring:
* A degree qualification, or equivalent experience gained through a combination of training and professional practice.
* Understanding of workplace health and safety and risk management principles.
* Excellent organisational, administrative, and time?management capability.
* Ability to interpret policy, operate within compliance frameworks, and maintain accurate records.
* Initiative, sound judgement, and adaptability in changing environments.
For further information about this role, please contact Daniel Terry, Associate Professor (Nursing) via or
Building on its strengths as Australia's leading regional university, UniSQ partners closely with its communities to drive innovation and create opportunity through education and research. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and excellence, UniSQ's Strategic Plan 2026–2030 sets a clear ambition: to be Australia's most transformative university by embracing our regional identity, fostering inclusive learning and research environments, and delivering globally relevant outcomes with strong local impact.
The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.
We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.
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To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.
Reference Number: 0021_01/26
Location: Toowoomba campus
Term: Full-time continuing appointment (36 hours/week)
Salary: Total remuneration range $94,129 to $106,754 pa (includes salary range of $79,383 to $90,031 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)
Closes: Sunday, 15 February 2026 at 11:30 pm (AEST)
At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making. UniSQ is a child safe organisation.
As part of the University of Southern Queensland's commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and rewarding work environment and in compliance with our legal obligations, we require candidates to declare whether they have been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence, or determined to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, during the course of their previous employment or in any legal process.
This information helps us meet our legal obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence, and will be considered when determining a candidate's suitability for employment, so that we can keep our University community safe.
If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to 'Who we're looking for' in the position description.
For more information on our selection process please refer to your recruitment journey available on our website.