Senior Lecturer (Nursing) (2 positions)

• Remuneration range $162,350 to $186,598 pa
• Full-time continuing appointment
• Toowoomba or Ipswich campus
• Full-time, continuing appointment (37.5 hours/week)
• $136,917 to $157,367 pa + 17% Super + Leave Loading
• Toowoomba or Ipswich campus
• To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia

Are you ready to inspire the next generation of nurses and help shape the future of healthcare? With significant growth in UniSQ’s nursing programs and increasing demand for high-quality education across regional and outer-metropolitan Queensland, our School of Nursing and Midwifery is seeking a highly capable and motivated Senior Lecturer (Nursing) to join our dynamic and supportive academic team. This is your opportunity to contribute to excellence in teaching, impactful research, and meaningful community engagement.

Who You Are

You are an experienced nursing academic who brings strong disciplinary expertise, a commitment to teaching excellence, and a developing research profile with meaningful contributions to the field. You are an effective communicator, a supportive mentor, and a proactive academic citizen who fosters collaboration and builds constructive relationships.

What you'll do

As a Senior Lecturer (Nursing), you will make significant contributions to high-quality teaching, research, and service within the School. Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering high-quality, student-centred teaching across UniSQ’s undergraduate and postgraduate nursing programs
• Contributing to curriculum development, program coordination, course leadership, and creation of high-quality learning materials
• Securing external research funding and engaging in research projects that deliver meaningful social, economic, and health outcomes
• Providing academic leadership across the School, including mentoring colleagues and contributing to a positive, collaborative academic culture

What will help you succeed

• It is essential you hold a doctoral qualification in nursing
• Registered Nurse with registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Recognised significant teaching and research expertise in nursing, with a record of demonstrable scholarly and professional achievement
• Demonstrated experience in delivering engaged and reflective approaches to teaching that produce the best possible outcomes for students, including evidence of high-quality tertiary teaching experience, leadership and productivity, including course and program coordination
• Demonstrated experience in engaging in research that provides the opportunity to collaborate with others, seeks to attract funding to support research, advances knowledge, and engages with industry. A research track record, including high-quality publications, external funding or other relevant applied research outcomes is required
• High level oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, relating well to people at all levels using diplomacy, tact and sound judgement, with an ability to build constructive and effective relationships
• Alignment with the core University values of Respect, Integrity, and Excellence

For further information on this position, please contact Professor Leah East, Interim Head of School and Dean (Nursing and Midwifery), via + 61 7 4631 2269 or leah.east@unisq.edu.au.

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.

Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au.

To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.

Reference Number: 0191_12/25

Location: Toowoomba or Ipswich campus

Term: Full-time continuing appointment

Salary: Total remuneration range $162,350 to $186,598 pa (includes salary range of $136,917 to $157,367 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)

Closes: Monday, 2 March 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.

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