The through-line
Twenty years in health education. The job title changes; the question doesn't. Somebody has to learn something difficult, and it has to actually work.
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Organisation
Organisational Development Lead
A national health regulator 2025 – present
Leading a specialist team building capability across the whole employee lifecycle: leadership development, talent and succession, performance and development, culture and engagement. The work is measurement-led: employee surveys, focus groups and people data decide what gets built, and then whether it worked.
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Workforce capability
Manager, Technical and Operational Training
A national health regulator 2024 – 2025
Led a team building the training that carried regulatory operations staff through a major platform transition. Technical retraining for people whose day-to-day work was changing underneath them.
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National program
Executive Director, Education Services
CRANAplus 2023 – 2024
Three teams and the national education portfolio: 104 courses delivered across remote and rural Australia by ten remote clinical educators and ninety-nine volunteer facilitators. Implemented a new learning management platform and reported to the board.
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Health service
Clinical Education Manager
St Vincent's Health Australia 2018 – 2023
Twenty Masters-qualified educators across two campuses and more than ten concurrent programs. Built the annual clinical competency assessment, ran education through the COVID response, and established a First Nations employment partnership.
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Curriculum
Senior Lecturer
Charles Darwin University 2016 – 2017
Redesigned an AQF Level 7 nursing curriculum for more than 600 students taught simultaneously in Darwin, Alice Springs and Sydney, supported by twenty-five facilitators.
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Cohort
Unit Coordinator, Clinical Subject Area Coordinator
Queensland University of Technology 2011 – 2016
Six thousand students over five years, and eighty clinical facilitators. Led the clinical component of the school's TEQSA re-accreditation and supervised doctoral candidates.
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Learner
Lecturer, Clinical Facilitator, Nurse Researcher
University of Sydney and UNSW 2007 – 2010
Teaching nurses on the ward and in the classroom, and researching what actually happens to them in their first year of practice. That research became the PhD, and everything after it.
At scale
- 6,000+ students taught or coordinated QUT, 2011–2016
- 200+ educators and facilitators developed 80 QUT 25 CDU 99 CRANAplus
- 104 courses delivered nationally CRANAplus, 2023–2024
- 20 years in health education 2007 – present
Where that leads
The through-line runs both ways. Designing how a whole workforce grows only works if you remember what it's like to stand in front of one person who hasn't got it yet.