Senior Lecturer (Nursing) (Part-time)

Are you ready to inspire the next generation of nurses and help shape the future of healthcare? With significant growth in UniSQ’s nursing programs and increasing demand for high-quality education across regional and outer-metropolitan Queensland, our School of Nursing and Midwifery is seeking a highly capable and motivated Senior Lecturer (Nursing) to join our dynamic and supportive academic team. This is your opportunity to contribute to excellence in teaching, impactful research, and meaningful community engagement.

Who You Are

As a qualified Nurse Practitioner you bring strong disciplinary expertise, a commitment to teaching excellence, and interest in developing a research profile with meaningful contributions to the field. You are an effective communicator, a supportive mentor, and a proactive academic citizen who fosters collaboration and builds constructive relationships.

What you'll do

As a Senior Lecturer (Nursing), you will make significant contributions to high-quality teaching, research, and service within the School. Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering high-quality, student-centred teaching across UniSQ’s postgraduate nursing programs
• Contributing to curriculum development, program coordination, course leadership, and creation of high-quality learning materials
• Securing external research funding and engaging in research projects that deliver meaningful social, economic, and health outcomes
• Providing academic leadership across the School, including mentoring colleagues and contributing to a positive, collaborative academic culture

What will help you succeed

• It is essential you hold a Master qualification as a Nurse Practitioner that can lead to AHPRA registration as a Nurse Practitioner in Australia
• It is desirable that you hold or are working towards a doctoral qualification or equivalent accreditation and standing in nursing
• It is desirable that you hold APHRA endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner, but essential that you are a registered nurse with AHPRA in Australia
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality tertiary teaching, including course coordination, student-centred learning, and positive educational outcomes
• Desirable to have research experience with a track record of publications, funding success, industry engagement, and collaborative research that advances knowledge

For further information on this position, please contact Professor Pauline Calleja,Head of School and Dean (Nursing and Midwifery), via + 61 7 4631 1525 **********@unisq.edu.au.

Building on its strengths as Australia’s leading regional university, UniSQ partners closely with its communities to drive innovation and create opportunity through education and research. Guided by our values of respect, integrity, and excellence, UniSQ’s Strategic Plan 2026–2030 sets a clear ambition: to be Australia’s most transformative university by embracing our regional identity, fostering inclusive learning and research environments, and delivering globally relevant outcomes with strong local impact.

The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.

We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.

Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au.

To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.

Reference Number: 0165_08/26

Location: Toowoomba or Ipswich campus

Term: Part-time continuing appointment (18.75 hours/week)

Salary: Total remuneration range $84,016 to $96,564 pa (includes salary range of $70,855 to $81,437 pa, employer super contributions of 17% and annual leave loading)

Closes: Sunday, 20 September 2026 at 11:30 pm (AEST)

At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making.  UniSQ is a child safe organisation.

As part of the University of Southern Queensland's commitment to fostering a safe, respectful and rewarding work environment and in compliance with our legal obligations, we require candidates to declare whether they have been investigated for an allegation of Gender Based Violence, or determined to have engaged in conduct that constitutes Gender Based Violence, during the course of their previous employment or in any legal process.

This information helps us meet our legal obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender Based Violence, and will be considered when determining a candidate's suitability for employment, so that we can keep our University community safe.

If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to ‘Who we’re looking for’ in the position description.

For more information on our selection process please refer to your recruitment journey, available on our website.