Lecturer / Placement Coordinator
Location: Hawthorn East
Employment Type: 0.8 EFT
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We are seeking a student-focused Lecturer / Placement Coordinator to join our collaborative and community-focused team.
This hybrid role integrates teaching and placement coordination, ensuring students receive high-quality, practice-ready training grounded in person-centred and humanistic-experiential approaches.
You will play a key role in supporting both student learning and professional placement experiences, working closely with industry partners and academic staff.
About the Role
This role involves:
· Delivering teaching using experiential and process-oriented approaches
· Supporting students through reflective and supervision-informed learning
· Developing and maintaining placement partnerships
· Ensuring placements align with learning outcomes and accreditation requirements
· Embedding trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and inclusive practices
· Contributing to psychotherapy-informed teaching and scholarship
To be successful in this role you will have:
· Experience in teaching and/or supervision in counselling or psychotherapy
· Strong grounding in person-centred and humanistic-experiential approaches
· Ability to support students in practice-based learning environments
· Strong organisational and stakeholder engagement skills
· Commitment to inclusive, trauma-informed, and relational practice
Highly desirable:
· Registration with Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and/or Australian Counselling Association
· Experience with experiential curriculum design
· Training in person-centred and experiential pedagogy
· Interest in psychotherapy change research
About the Cairnmillar Institute
Cairnmillar is a leading not-for-profit provider of professional education and psychological services, with a strong focus on training reflective, ethical, and practice-ready graduates.
Why join Cairnmillar
· Meaningful role supporting student transition to professional practice
· Strong collaboration between academic and industry partners
· Supportive and values-driven workplace
· Opportunities for teaching, supervision, and professional growth
How to apply
Please submit:
· Cover letter
· CV
· Contact details for two referees
If you would like a position description, please visit our website- https://www.cairnmillar.org.au/about/careers-at-cmi/job-search/level-c-academic-counselling-and-psychotherapy.
Please contact People and Culture (hr@cairnmillar.edu.au) if you have an enquiry about the position.
Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
The Cairnmillar Institute promotes the following values: collaboration, compassion, integrity, professionalism and respect and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Cairnmillar is an equal opportunity employer committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce that reflects the community it serves.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
