Placement Officer (HEO 4)

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Based in Allied Health and Human Performance at the City East Campus

Two (2) full-time, fixed-term contracts until 31 December 2025 and 14 February 2025

Salary: $70,476 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

About You

You are a strong communicator, always displaying clarity, diplomacy and sensitivity. You take initiative to provide logical, creative and innovative solutions to deliver results through being outcome and customer focused. You maintain credibility, accountability, reliability and honesty in all required tasks.

About the Role

Reporting to the Team Leader: Clinical Placement Unit, you will be responsible for coordinating metropolitan, rural, interstate and international student placement activities and providing administrative support relating to students enrolled in programs across Allied Health and Human Performance, and Clinical and Health Sciences.

About the Allied Health and Human Performance Academic Unit

UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance offers a wide range of degrees and conducts research in the fields of physiotherapy, occupational therapy, podiatry, medical radiation sciences, medical sonography, speech pathology, clinical exercise physiology, exercise and nutrition, health sciences, public health, exercise and sport science, and human movement.

Our degrees meet the evolving needs of the health industry, with our graduates actively contributing to the future health workforce in areas such as medical imaging, rehabilitation and wellness, disability, health promotion, chronic disease, pain management, wellbeing and high-performance sport.

Student learning extends beyond the classroom, with access to purpose-built facilities including a wide range of laboratories and simulated hospital and health service environments on campus. Students also get practical, hands-on experience through a range of scholarships and placements with UniSA's range of community clinics and with industry partners such as SA Health, the Calvary Wakefield Hospital, SA Metropolitan Fire Services and Helping Hand Aged Care.

In addition to industry-linked careers, UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance research strengths continue to influence and positively contribute to the health industry and broader community. Our main areas of research include pain sciences, evidence translation, rehabilitation, high performance in sport, nutrition, genetic epidemiology and cancer. UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance is also home to UniSA research concentration: Innovation, Implementation & Clinical Translation in Health (iIMPACT) which focusing particularly on persistent pain and breathlessness, rural health and stroke recovery and UniSA research group Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), which investigates the role of exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle activities in improving clinical and health outcomes.

About UniSA

The University of South Australia is Australia's University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

Essential Skills and Experience

Highly developed written, verbal and interpersonal skills appropriate to successfully communicate with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to deliver quality customer service

Well-developed organisational and time management skills with ability to manage multiple priorities within set timelines and proactively find solutions whilst working under pressure

Ability to develop and apply a thorough understanding of the Academic Unit's programs and their placement requirements

Experience in developing and maintaining paper-based and electronic administrative systems and experience in identifying and implementing quality improvement initiatives

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Benefits

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as:

Access to great personal development opportunities

Generous superannuation contributions of 17%

Employee assistance and development programs

A variety of leave arrangements

Culture

As a University of Enterprise, we offer a dynamic and agile workplace culture, one that embraces challenges and thrives on breaking new ground. Our staff are creative and innovative thinkers, communicating with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm. We embrace diversity and inclusion in a vibrant, engaging environment. Our people are authentic, resilient, and influential, and we deliver results.

Start Your Unstoppable Career

For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA. The online application form will list the specific selection criteria that you need to address.

Please address your cover letter to Kiara Lalli, Consultant: Recruitment Central. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at [email protected] using job reference number 6086.

Applications close: 11:30pm Sunday 12 May 2024

Applications welcomed from Australian or NZ citizens, Australian permanent residents and those who have the legal right to work in Australia for the term of appointment.

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