About the role
UC's Faculty of Health is currently recruiting for a passionate Lecturer in Health (education focused) to join us to inspire and prepare graduates in the evolving health, disability, and community sectors.
This is an exciting opportunity for an early career academic who is dedicated to student success and wishes to contribute meaningfully to innovative, high-quality health education. This role, plays a key part in delivering engaging learning experiences across interdisciplinary health programs, working collaboratively with colleagues to support student achievement and academic excellence.
Key responsibilities include
- Preparing and delivering high-quality classes
- Coordinating units and contributing to course management and quality assurance activities.
- Designing innovative and authentic assessment tasks that enhance student learning and graduate outcomes.
- Providing academic guidance, mentorship, and support to students.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will be a collegial, scholarly and inquisitive educator driven to create a positive impact on the health professional eco-system. Teaching a broad Health Science skilled subject, you will help define, guide and influence student's professional direction. Other requirements include:
- Professional experience within health, disability, community health, allied health, or closely related sectors.
- Experience applying professional practice knowledge to teaching and learning environments.
- Demonstrated ability to design, develop, coordinate, and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate subjects.
- Experience teaching in a health-related discipline within a tertiary education environment.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Evidence of scholarly activity and the ability to translate contemporary research into engaging and relevant teaching practices.
- A PhD in Health or a related discipline
Offerings/ Benefits/ Culture
The University offers excellent conditions and benefits which can be further explored on our "Work at UC" site such as flexible, family-friendly policies, on site gym, on site medical services, a grocery store, and Early Childhood Education and Care facilities.
We believe people deserve to feel welcome, supported, and empowered to realise their potential. Being a values based organisation, UC sets a goal to be the national sector leader in equity, diversity, inclusion and access via our Reconnected Strategy. UC encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, neurodiversity and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Eligibility
- Applicants who wish to apply for this position should have valid working rights in Australia with the ability to start in early 2027.
- A current ACT working with vulnerable people (WWVP) registration, or ability to obtain.
How to apply
Please apply with you CV only, no other documentation is required at this stage. Please ensure you take the time to align your CV with the Position Description requirements. We want to understand how your skills and experience relate to the position you are applying for.
If you are initially shortlisted, you may be asked to complete an online one-way video interview. There will be a list of pre-set questions that will need to be answered within a stipulated time.
For job specific information: please contact Alison Shield - Head of School - Health Sciences - alison.shield@canberra.edu.au - 02 6201 2084.
For recruitment and application questions: please contact the Talent Solutions team on 02 6206 3867 or email uctalent@canberra.edu.au. We recognise people communicate and process information differently, and we support multiple ways to participate in the recruitment evaluation. For reasonable adjustment, please reach out to the UCTalent team.
Closing date: 11.55pm, Friday 23 October 2026
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