Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Onsite
Position Details
About the Role/s
Lecturer
The Lecturer in Midwifery - Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner), will contribute to excellence in teaching and learning across a range of midwifery topics. The lecturer will play a key role in developing and delivering high-quality, innovative teaching through lectures, tutorials, clinical placements, and contemporary digital strategies. This includes creating course materials, coordinating placements, and conducting assessments. The role also requires ongoing clinical or community-based practice to maintain current skills and knowledge.
In addition, the incumbent will provide informal leadership by supporting academic staff, coordinating workflows, and ensuring high standards aligned with university policies and practices.
Senior Lecturer
The Senior Lecturer in Midwifery – Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner), will provide leadership in delivering excellence in teaching and learning across the suite of Midwifery topics and courses in the College of Healthcare and Enablement, that enhance the student experience. The role will provide educational leadership; curriculum design and review; delivery innovation; advancements in education technologies; and leadership in ensuring internal and external compliance and accreditation of courses and continuous quality improvement of university-level education. The Senior Lecturer will also be expected to concurrently engage in practice in a clinical or community setting to support maintenance of contemporary practice, knowledge and skills.
Please refer to the attached position descriptions for a comprehensive list of roles and responsibilities.
This position makes a significant contribution to the University’s strategic plan to changing 10 million lives, Every One Matters, by 2035 through a commitment to a student-centred ethos and to developing creative, enterprising, career-ready graduates prepared to become lifelong contributors to society.
About You
The Lecturer will have demonstrated excellence in tertiary teaching across classroom, simulation and/or clinical settings, including placement coordination. You will have a proven ability to independently contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning strategies, including student assessment, and an understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research, scholarship and practice.
Additionally, as the Senior Lecturer, you will have significant and sustained evidence of excellence in tertiary teaching, including experience in simulation and/or clinical settings. You will have a strong track record of developing, delivering and evaluating innovative teaching and learning strategies across classroom and clinical education environments, together with a demonstrated commitment to teaching scholarship and professional development in higher education. You will have a strong understanding of the nexus between teaching and learning, research, scholarship and practice, together with experience coordinating and/or leading the teaching activities of colleagues.
In these roles you will also be able to demonstrate:
College of Health and Enablement
At the College of Health and Enablement, we aim to be an innovator in contemporary education producing a safer and more resilient health and social care workforce. Our mission is to improve lives and empower communities, enabling better health and caring in the world through an exceptional student learning experience. At the College, our research mission is about co-creating new knowledge which promotes wellbeing, and better care and support, to individuals and communities across the lifespan. We work proactively with industry partners and professional bodies leading to more employable and innovative graduates.
Life at Flinders
They say know your place. We say you've found it right here.
Flinders University was founded on the belief that learning should open minds, celebrate individuality and give people the freedom to pursue their own point of view. That spirit lives on in our community of thinkers, doers and changemakers who challenge convention, and each other, to shape what comes next.
Rising to a challenge is nothing new for Flinders. During our first 60 years, we’ve navigated revolutionary changes in social and cultural norms, and have responded to transformative economic, environmental and technological developments. Through it all, we’ve continued to deliver for our students and community, innovating in learning and research to prepare graduates for the changing world they help create.
Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them.
Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment
Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.
Prescribed Conditions for Employment
Appointment to this role is conditional on the completion of required pre-employment checks and declarations, each of which must be satisfactory to the University.
These include:
How to Apply and Information
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Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:
22 Oct 2026At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
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