Academic Lead, Physiotherapy
2 months ago
**Job no**: 500381
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Launceston
**Categories**: Teaching Intensive
**Academic Lead, Physiotherapy**
- Lead and support students in becoming competent evidence-based practitioners
- Generous staff benefits, discounts and salary packaging
- Full time, Ongoing role - based in Launceston, Tasmania
**About the opportunity**
We are seeking to appoint a Professor/Associate Professor in Physiotherapy to join the Allied Health Expansion Program in the School of Health Sciences. The Allied Health Expansion program is creating new opportunities to better support the Allied Health workforce needs in Tasmania. We are collaborating with the government, health professionals, industry and local Tasmanian communities to increase allied health education, training and research opportunities in Tasmania.
The appointee will lead the Master of Physiotherapy program and collaborate with a state-wide team to design and deliver core components of allied health courses. As Academic Lead, they will oversee annual quality review cycles in line with UTAS Quality Assurance, Partnerships, and Compliance policies, ensuring the program’s integrity meets accreditation requirements.
In this leadership role, the appointee will work closely with the Departments of Health and Education, the Tasmanian Health Service, and community stakeholders. They will ensure high-quality learning experiences through a place-based curriculum in entry-to-practice and professional development courses, leading a team to support students in becoming evidence-based practitioners capable of interdisciplinary collaboration.
The incumbent will oversee the development of teaching materials, delivery of teaching, and student assessment, including the use of emerging technologies. They will primarily teach physiotherapy and interprofessional curriculum and may teach other areas as needed. Additionally, they will support collaborative and applied research in allied health, aligning with the College’s strategic research priorities, aiming for social, ethical, and culturally sensitive solutions to complex health problems.
The incumbent will contribute to a School committed to a set of workplace principles which facilitate a culture we are proud of, and that fosters staff wellbeing while enabling us to achieve our collective mission.
**What you’ll do**:
- Make an effective and sustained contribution to the University in achieving its strategic objectives and fulfilling its operational responsibilities.
- Provide exemplary academic leadership to the School as part of a state-wide team delivering our suite of allied health courses, and by nurturing and facilitating the career development of other staff within the School of Health Sciences.
- Advance the School Learning and Teaching agenda and oversee annual quality review cycles of entry-to-practice Physiotherapy and other professional development courses in accordance with UTAS policies and accreditation requirements.
- Undertake scholarly coursework teaching of an exemplary quality and provide leadership in key areas of learning and teaching in allied health.
- Provide high quality physiotherapy assessment and interventions within the University’s health training sites aligned with accepted best practice standards.
- Undertake high-quality research aligned to the strategic research priorities of the College, secure external funding, publish research findings and successfully supervise research higher degree students to completion, to meet and regularly exceed the University’s research performance expectations for Level D as appropriate.
**What we’re looking for**:
- Completion of a PhD Degree in a relevant health discipline (or equivalent combination of qualifications and relevant experience).
- Current registration as a Physiotherapist with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (PBA), under the auspices of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Authority (AHPRA).
- Experience and demonstrated achievement in university-level multidisciplinary learning and teaching, with demonstrated experience of flexible learning and familiarity with innovative blended learning & teaching andragogy and digital technologies.
- Evidence of leading, designing and implementing best practice assessment and student learning outcomes at unit or course level.
- Proven ability as an academic leader, with a strong record in team building and creating effective working relationships, along with a capacity to foster excellence in research and teaching and to support and facilitate the career development of staff.
- A substantial record in research that has made innovative contributions to the field of Physiotherapy demonstrated by a strong record of high-quality publications, presentations at conferences, and success in securing external funding.
- A record of successful research higher degree student supervision and completions
**Considering a move to Tasmania to take up this opportuni
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