"Senior Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Academic) or Senior Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner) in Nursing (Pharmacology)"

Position Details

• Continuing | Full-time or Part-time
• Academic Level C | $138,124 - $158,885 p.a. pro rata
• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country
• View Position Description – Teaching Specialist (Academic)
• View Position Description – Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner)
• View Candidate Brochure

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Academic) or Senior Lecturer Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner) to provide leadership and direction in Nursing (Pharmacology). This position focuses on excellence in teaching and teaching-related activities, including the delivery of high-quality, student-centred learning at university level. The role will lead curriculum design and review, drive innovation in delivery, advance the use of education technologies, and contribute to internal and external compliance and accreditation processes.

The Senior Lecturer will play a key role in planning and evaluating topics, undertaking Topic Coordinator and Course Coordinator responsibilities as required. The role also involves providing academic advice and professional guidance to students, fostering their career development, and promoting contemporary educational practice through strong academic leadership and the dissemination of best practice.

Please refer to the attached position description for a full list of roles and responsibilities.

About You

With significant and sustained evidence and excellence in teaching at a tertiary level, you can reflect and improve in your delivery of teaching enabling you to develop and evaluate innovative teaching and learning strategies in the classroom.

Your excellent interpersonal and effective verbal and written communication skills, enable you to establish and maintain relationships with staff, students and industry and are successful in coordinating and/or leading the activities of other staff.

You will also be able to demonstrate:

• Currently registered or eligible for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) or the Pharmacy Board of Australia through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra).
• Hold and maintain a current membership with a relevant professional association.
• An understanding of pedagogical theory and contemporary educational practice relevant to Pharmacology.
• A willingness and ability to contribute to scholarship in teaching through participation in teaching and learning strategies and in professional development in higher education teaching.
• A completion of a PhD or EdD or equivalent qualification in Pharmacology.

Additionally, the Senior Lecturer, Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner), will also demonstrate:

• Doctorate in a relevant field or equivalent clinical experience and professional standing in Pharmacology.
• Relevant and contemporary clinical experience in a relevant field and ability to maintain concurrently within or outside of this position.
• Significant and sustained evidence in teaching at a tertiary level, inclusive of simulation and/or clinical setting.
• Significant and sustained evidence of development, delivery and evaluation of innovative teaching and learning strategies both in the classroom and in clinical education.

How to Apply

You are required to submit your CV and a Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages, addressing the Key Position Capabilities of the Position Description – Teaching Specialist (Academic) Position Description – Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner).

For more information regarding this position, please contact Professor Michelle Miller.

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm: 06 Apr 2026