Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Midwifery - Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner)

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 planto 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:

• A completion of a PhD, or other relevant and equivalent qualification and/or experience.
• Hold and maintain a current membership with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia & Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Relevant and contemporary clinical experience as an accredited Midwife.
• An understanding of pedagogical theory and contemporary educational practice relevant to Midwifery.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills, including the demonstrated ability to establish effective relationships with staff, students and industry.

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.

So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options
• Flexible working arrangements
• Awarded the AHEIA Higher Education Award for Workplace Culture Excellence due to our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders staff wellbeing program
• Wide range of professional development activities and services, including exclusive staff study offers
• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff, as shown through our three SAGE Cygnet Awards.
• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gym and childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).
• Recognised as a Veteran Employer of Choice

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.

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan
• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy

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:

• Flinders University will require a current completed Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and Gender Based Violence Declaration which is satisfactory to the University. The contract of Employment is conditional upon the receipt of these completed compliance checks. A disclosable outcome will not automatically disqualify a candidate from consideration. Each case will be assessed on its individual merits and relevance to the inherent requirements of the role.
• In addition, it is a requirement of this position that the incumbent maintain a current Working with Children Check which is satisfactory to the University in accordance with the Child Safety (Prohibited Persons) Act 2016 (SA).
• SA: Staff working in a health care setting are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in line with the SA Health policy.

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit a CV, along with a Suitability Statement as a separate document. This should be no more than 3 pages, and address the Key Position Capabilities of the View Position Description – Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner)
• View Position Description – Senior Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner)
• Flinders University is committed to providing an environment where staff with disability are valued, supported and encouraged to participate fully and independently in the life of the University. If you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you in the selection process, please advise the contact in the Recruitment Team so that we can make appropriate arrangements through recruitment@flinders.edu.au or call 08 8201 2383.
• For more information regarding this position, please contact Professor Chris Barr

Certification

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:

22 Oct 2026

At 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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