Senior Lecturer in Palliative and End-of-Life Care

Position Details

Full-Time Continuing

Academic Level C $138,124 - $158885 p.a.

Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country

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About the Role

The Senior Lecturer will be a key member of the academic staff in Palliative and End-of-Life-Care. The incumbent will take a leading position in designing, delivering and evaluating high-quality teaching across lectures, tutorials, laboratory activities, and placement education, with a primary focus on Palliative and End-of-Life Care.

The Senior Lecturer will coordinate topics and courses, ensuring engaging, contemporary curriculum development. A key part of the role is contributing to ethical, innovative research through scholarly activity, quality publications, securing external funding, and mentoring emerging researchers in alignment with the Caring Futures Institute.

The incumbent will champion inspiring, student-centred teaching practices, including the effective use of digital and e-learning technologies to enhance the learning experience.

The role will also provide academic guidance and support to students facing challenges that may impact their progress. In a leadership capacity, the role will contribute to internal and external quality assurance and accreditation processes, helping to uphold and advance the College’s standards of excellence.

About You

You will apply your extensive clinical experience across the continuum of Palliative and End-of-Life Care, along with a proven record of high-quality tertiary teaching. This will include coordinating topics and courses and contributing to innovative curriculum design. You will also bring and maintain full, unconditional registration with AHPRA or the relevant professional association.

You have experience supervising honours, postgraduate coursework and higher degree research students, supporting their academic and research development.

You will demonstrate a strong research profile aligned with the Caring Futures Institute, and this is evident through sustained high-quality publications, senior authorship contributions and success in securing competitive external funding.

You will also demonstrate a clear understanding of the important relationship between teaching, research, scholarship and clinical practice, and how this integration enhances outcomes for students, research partners and the broader community.

College of Nursing and Health Sciences

At the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, we aim to be an innovator in contemporary education producing a safer and more resilient health and social care workforce. Our mission is to improve lives and empower communities, enabling better health and caring in the world through an exceptional student learning experience. At the College, our research mission is about co-creating new knowledge which promotes wellbeing, and better care and support, to individuals and communities across the lifespan. We work proactively with industry partners and professional bodies leading to more employable and innovative graduates.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

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. So, why work at Flinders?

17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

Flexible working arrangements

Our commitment to wellbeing through our Thriving@Flinders initiative

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).

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

A current Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will be required by Flinders University before the successful applicant can commence in this position. A criminal record 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.

SA: Staff working in a health care setting are strongly recommended to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in line with the SA Health policy

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

For more information regarding this position, please contact Chris Barr

Important Notice: Recruitment Activity During University Shutdown

Please note that recruitment activity will be paused during the Flinders University shutdown period. No updates or progress on applications will be available between 22 December 2025 and 5 January 2026.

Recruitment processes will resume from 5 January 2026, and application statuses will be communicated from that date onward.

We appreciate your understanding and patience during this time.

For any urgent queries, please contact us prior to the shutdown period.

Certification

Applications to be submitted before 10.00pm:

16 Dec 2025

At 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.

Flinders. Fearless.

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