About This Opportunity

This is a unique opportunity for a Principal Specialty Supervisor to make a meaningful impact on the next generation of medical professionals through high-quality, clinically relevant education within the Clinical Unit. Working collaboratively with the Specialty Supervisor, you will play a key role in integrating learning across all four years of the program, ensuring a cohesive and enriching student experience.

At UQ, you will be embedded within a dynamic hospital and community care environment, building strong partnerships with clinicians to enhance teaching and learning. Your visible leadership and established academic profile within your specialty will position you to influence educational excellence, strengthen clinical engagement, and contribute to a culture of collaboration, innovation, and real-world impact.

Key responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Clinical Teaching & Student Experience: Deliver high-quality teaching, supervision, assessment, and feedback across all years, fostering clinical competence, professional identity, and a consistently positive student experience.
• Leadership in Education & Quality Improvement: Support and guide clinical colleagues in supervision and teaching, while contributing to continuous improvement in curriculum design, assessment, and learning quality within the Clinical Unit.
• Collaboration & Academic Engagement: Work closely with Academic Title Holders, clinicians, and relevant academies to strengthen integrated learning and advance educational practice.
• Research & Scholarly Contribution (where applicable): Maintain an active clinical and/or education research profile, contribute to funding applications, and apply best-practice methodologies to inform teaching and learning.
• Professional Leadership & Service: Model UQ values through inclusive, respectful leadership; contribute to governance, student support and career guidance, and engage in ongoing professional development and compliance activities.

Organisational Relationships: This position reports to the Head, Mater Clinical Unit with functional oversight from the Head, Mayne Academy of Critical Care.

This is a teaching focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance.

About You

• Medical qualification and eligibility for registration as a medical practitioner in Australia, with a relevant specialist qualification.
• PhD or equivalent in the disciplinary area, or an appropriate combination of professional and academic service relevant to the field.
• An established profile in clinical teaching and/or clinical research in the discipline area.
• Evidence of a substantial senior contribution to quality clinical teaching at undergraduate postgraduate and/or professional entry level.
• Expert discipline knowledge and extensive experience in a general or specialist capacity, including evidence of dissemination and adoption of new and innovative clinical techniques.
• National record of publications in reputed refereed journals and presenting at conferences with a developing international profile.
• Active participation in the development and continuous innovation of programs, curricula and/or course material in the discipline area.
• Record of supervision of HDR students and/or trainees in speciality training programs.
• A growing record of meaningful internal service roles in conjunction with demonstrated leadership roles in external activities that foster links within the profession and the relevant specialty, including developing consultancies in speciality areas.

Appointment to this role is subject to the successful completion of relevant pre-employment checks, which may include verification of the right to work in Australia, qualifications, professional registration (AHPRA), mandatory immunisations. This may also include checks relating to gender-based violence matters or other integrity and conduct requirements.

You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

In this role, you will be responsible for teaching and supervising medical students within the hospital. Applicants must hold, and maintain for the duration of this appointment, a clinical position at the Mater or QCH to be considered for this opportunity.

This position may attract additional salary loadings (clinical and/or state) within this role, based on the successful candidate’s qualifications and registrations and subject to approval. More information can be found here.

Questions?

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Professor Paul Griffin, paul.griffin@uq.edu.au

For application inquiries, please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team at talent@uq.edu.au, stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.

Want to Apply?

We welcome applications from all individuals and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. To be considered, please ensure you upload:

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Responses to the ‘About You’ section

Our strength as an institution lies in our diverse colleagues. We're dedicated to equity, diversity, and inclusion, fostering an environment that mirrors our wider community. We're committed to attracting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent, particularly from Australia’s First Nations Peoples. If you require an alternative method to submit your application due to accessibility needs or personal circumstances, please contact talent@uq.edu.au.