Salary: $125,537 – $165,698, DOE
Package:
- Salary packaging
- Flexible work arrangements
- High-quality professional development programs and activities
- An on-campus gym and other fitness facilities
Type of Work: Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor (Small Animal Surgery), Permanent, Full-Time
Job Details: An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Specialist Small Animal Surgeon to join the team in a world-class University. They are seeking a veterinarian who can provide leadership and excellence in clinical service delivery and teaching of small animal surgery to their DVM students.
The position will suit an Australian Fellowship or American/European Boarded specialist with a track record in excellence in patient care and a passion for imparting knowledge, teaching and mentoring students to develop their clinical thinking and skills. The appointee will contribute to teaching in veterinary medicine programs through course coordination, lectures, tutorials and clinical rotations. They will also provide advanced small animal surgical treatment options for referred patients from across South Australia.
The companion animal hospital is the School’s small animal clinical teaching hospital and offers the general public and referring veterinarians a range of first opinion, emergency and referral specialist veterinary services from a modern, well equipped facility. Working in a clinical training environment for final year veterinary students, their passionate and dedicated staff have the opportunity to make an important contribution to the education of the next generation of veterinarians and veterinary technologists by involving students in case management and modelling the highest standards of clinical excellence and professional behaviour.
This role will allow you to expand your specialist expertise in practice in the clinic as well as the classroom, and to contribute to the teaching and research efforts of a Go8 University and South Australia’s only veterinary teaching hospital. This opportunity offers diversity in day-to-day work, where, in addition to one to two days of clinical work, you will actively contribute to course coordination, lectures, tutorials and clinical rotations of our students, and further develop your research interests.
To be successful you will need:
As a minimum (Level C criteria)
- One or more of the following:
- A Professional College specialist qualification (Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists.
- A specialist Diploma from a relevant college of the American or European Boards of Veterinary Specialisation) awarded in Small Animal Surgery or related discipline.
- Significant experience in innovative and effective teaching, course coordination, supervision and mentoring of veterinary students and veterinarian technicians within a clinical setting.
- Demonstrated ability to undertake original and independent research in a related area and supervise clinical research projects and/or postgraduate students.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a small animal surgery specialist level service caseload within a private practice or teaching veterinary hospital.
- Demonstrated evidence of engagement with relevant professional and industry bodies to advance clinical education.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to effectively lead and manage staff within academic and/or clinical teams.
- Exemplary personal qualities fully aligned with our institutional values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery.
For appointment to Associate Professor (Level D) you will also need:
- Evidence of ability to work collaboratively to secure competitive research grants and/or industry funding.
- Evidence of an inspirational, altruistic leadership style that promotes a culture of engagement, collaboration, commitment and performance.
The successful candidate should hold a qualification in Veterinary Science or an equivalent degree that is acceptable for registration in South Australia.
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