Lecturer / Placement Coordinator

Lecturer / Placement Coordinator

Location: Hawthorn East

Employment Type: 0.8 EFT

Change Lives with a Career in #BetterMentalHealth

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.