Occupational Therapist

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Lead innovation in Occupational Therapy Shape the future of patient care at Princess Alexandra Hospital by delivering advanced clinical expertise, leading service innovation, and mentoring the next generation of Occupational Therapists.

Your New Role

As an Advanced Clinical Occupational Therapist, you'll play a pivotal role in the General Medicine Patient Flow Initiative at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You'll deliver specialist assessment, treatment, and discharge planning while driving service improvements and supporting a multidisciplinary 7-day service.

• Provide advanced clinical services in acute care, guiding complex patient assessments and discharge planning
• Lead, mentor, and support Occupational Therapists and students across the department

About You

You're an experienced Occupational Therapist with advanced clinical expertise, strong leadership skills, and a passion for service innovation. You thrive in collaborative environments and are committed to delivering safe, patient-centred, and evidence-based care.

• Demonstrated advanced clinical skills in acute assessment, treatment, and patient flow
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and contribute to research, service improvement, and innovative models of care

What We Can Offer You

We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions. We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role. You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About Princess Alexandra Hospital

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world-class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We Are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim, operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Occupational group: Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Part-time

Job function: Health Care Provider

Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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