The Opportunity
Monash Nursing & Midwifery has an exciting opportunity available for a Senior Lecturer and Work Integrated Learning Director to lead one of Australia's largest clinical placement portfolios. This pivotal position provides strategic oversight of more than 70,000 clinical placement days each year, fostering strong partnerships with health services and industry to deliver high-quality clinical learning experiences for nursing and midwifery students. Working collaboratively across the School, Faculty and healthcare sector, the role will drive the strategic direction, policy development and continuous improvement of Work Integrated Learning, supporting excellence in education and student outcomes.
Balancing strategic leadership with academic responsibilities, this position combines leadership of the Work Integrated Learning portfolio with teaching and research activities across Nursing and Midwifery programs. The role will enhance clinical placement planning and operations, build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, contribute to curriculum development and delivery, unit coordination, and support research, research supervision and academic mentorship. This is an exceptional opportunity to influence the future of clinical education while advancing scholarship within a collaborative and innovative academic environment.
We are seeking someone who is an experienced Registered Nurse or Midwife with current AHPRA registration, advanced qualifications and/or significant professional experience in clinical placement, work integrated learning or nursing and midwifery education. Demonstrated expertise in strategic leadership, stakeholder engagement, tertiary teaching, research and postgraduate supervision will also be highly regarded.
If you are looking to contribute to the future of nursing and midwifery education through leadership, teaching and research at a globally recognised university, we encourage you to apply.
About Monash Nursing and Midwifery - We educate and equip students to be the best nurses and midwives, who will make a genuine and positive difference to their patients, their workplace and in the world of healthcare. We explore research that strengthens practice, using evidence-based, industry and consumer informed research.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at [email protected] in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Professor Helen Rawson, Deputy Head of School - Nursing and Midwifery, +61 3 9905 0940
Position Description: Senior Lecturer & Work Integrated Learning Director
Applications Close: Thursday 13 August 2026, 11:55pm AEST
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