About us:
The Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (AIPC) Group is a private Registered Training Organisation and is Australia’s most well-known educator of counsellors. AIPC specialises in education programs in counselling, life coaching, community services, youth work, mental health and AOD, with AIPC students enjoying a unique and personalised learning experience.
AIPC and our staff are passionate about assisting people formalise their natural helping abilities so they can support others to lead happier, healthier lives.
About the role:
We are currently seeking to appoint Course Writers who can write comprehensive and engaging educational and assessment materials for our units in the following allied health and community services courses:
- Allied Health Assistance
- Health Administration
- Health Services Assistance
- Mental Health
- Practice Management
- Youth Work
Course Writing is ideal for experienced workers who want to utilise their skills and knowledge to continue to make an impact in the sector. This is a offered as an independent contractor arrangement, with a possibility of future work as we continue developing these new courses.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The role is mainly responsible for:
- Developing learning and assessment materials including written study materials, assessment activities, marker (answer) guides and books of readings.
- Ensuring learning materials meet all required learning outcomes.
- Incorporating feedback into learning materials.
- Proofing material for formatting, educational and grammatical correctness.
Skills and Experience:
The successful applicant will ideally have:
- A Diploma level (or higher) qualification in allied health, community services, health administration or other health-related fields.
- At least 2 years of recent experience working in an allied health, community services or similar contexts.
- A Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or an understanding of the Australian vocational education system.
- Exceptional written communication skills.
- Computer literacy and advanced experience with Microsoft Word.
- Outstanding attention to detail.
Our Culture:
We have a strong student-centric, values-driven culture based on the guiding principle: “Empowering people to help others”. The overall purpose of our organisation is for our graduates’, through their own work, to positively influence the level of wellbeing and health in our communities. We accept our role in fulfilling this purpose, working with responsibility, passion, expertise and skill. Our teams develop high quality, applicable courses and programs, and provide an exceptional level of education and service to our students. As such, we have a strong focus on creating an accountable, supportive and engaging work environment built on joint purpose, teamwork, and enthusiasm for what we do.
How to Apply:
If this sounds like you and you satisfy all essential criteria, we would welcome your application. Please submit your CV and a cover letter addressing the selection criteria by Friday 02 December 2022.
Applications will be assessed on a first-in basis and only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
Should you have any questions prior to making application please contact Hayley Wood (Education Manager) on 07 3112 2000 or hayley @aipc.net.au.