Associate Lecturer in Paramedicine (Clinical Facilitator)
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What you'll do
- Coordinate and support student placements across a range of healthcare and clinical settings, ensuring effective scheduling, compliance, record management and placement administration.
- Monitor and support student learning, clinical competency development and professional progression through coaching, feedback, assessment support and pastoral care.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships with healthcare organisations, clinical supervisors and placement providers to enhance placement quality, capacity and student outcomes.
- Contribute to quality assurance, accreditation and continuous improvement initiatives, supporting innovation and excellence in clinical education and work-integrated learning.
What they're looking for
- A relevant degree qualification and contemporary clinical experience, together with experience in clinical education, supervision or work-integrated learning environments.
- A demonstrated ability to mentor and support students, fostering professional growth, clinical competence and positive learning experiences.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build productive relationships across academia, healthcare organisations and industry.
- Excellent organisational and administrative capabilities, including an understanding of compliance, accreditation, risk management and the use of digital systems to support placement and student management.
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Position Details
Full-Time | Continuing Position
Academic Level A | $90,930 - $110,197 p.a.
Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country
About the Role
Join our Paramedicine team as an Associate Lecturer (Clinical Facilitator), where you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences that prepare students to become confident, capable and career-ready paramedicine professionals. Working collaboratively with academic staff, healthcare partners and students, you will coordinate and support clinical placements, foster strong industry relationships, and contribute to the continuous improvement of clinical education programs. This position combines student support, stakeholder engagement and quality assurance to ensure meaningful, safe and authentic learning experiences.
Key responsibilities include:
Coordinate and support student placements across a range of healthcare and clinical settings, ensuring effective scheduling, compliance, record management and placement administration.
Monitor and support student learning, clinical competency development and professional progression through coaching, feedback, assessment support and pastoral care.
Build and maintain strong partnerships with healthcare organisations, clinical supervisors and placement providers to enhance placement quality, capacity and student outcomes.
Contribute to quality assurance, accreditation and continuous improvement initiatives, supporting innovation and excellence in clinical education and work-integrated learning.
This position makes a significant contribution to the University's strategic plan to change 10 million lives, Every One Matters, by 2035, through directly contributing to the strategic drivers of Student Centricity and Industry & Enterprise Partnerships. By fostering high-quality clinical learning experiences, supporting student success and wellbeing, and building strong partnerships with healthcare organisations, this role helps prepare capable, career-ready graduates while strengthening the University's impact across the communities and industries it serves.
About You
You are a passionate and collaborative paramedicine professional with experience supporting student learning in clinical or work-integrated learning environments. You bring strong communication and relationship-building skills, a commitment to student success, and the ability to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders to deliver positive educational outcomes. Organised and proactive, you are comfortable balancing placement coordination, student support and quality assurance activities while contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
You will bring:
A relevant degree qualification and contemporary clinical experience, together with experience in clinical education, supervision or work-integrated learning environments.
A demonstrated ability to mentor and support students, fostering professional growth, clinical competence and positive learning experiences.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to build productive relationships across academia, healthcare organisations and industry.
Excellent organisational and administrative capabilities, including an understanding of compliance, accreditation, risk management and the use of digital systems to support placement and student management.
College of Medicine and Public Health
At the College of Medicine and Public Health, we deliver clinical, population and lab-based research, integrated teaching programs and high-quality clinical services. Our footprint reaches out from our world class teaching hospital at the Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia to multiple rural clinical locations all the way to Darwin in the Northern Territory. Our research and teaching equip the next generation of leaders and innovators with the skill, commitment, and vision to protect vulnerable communities and truly advance health outcomes. It is at the heart of everything we do.
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.
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.
Staff working in a health care setting are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in line with the SA Health policy.
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).
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 position description.
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 contact 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 Andrew Makkink.
Certification
Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:
08 Oct 2026At 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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