Occupional Therapy Team Leader

Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs. As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals are co-located in the same facility and opened in 2015. The hospitals provide both public and private services for people living in Perth's eastern suburbs and nearby regional areas. The hospital includes an Accident and Emergency Department, critical care unit, mental health unit, and maternity ward.

St John of God Midland Hospital are seeking an experienced and passionate Occupational Therapy Team Leader to join our dynamic Allied Health team in a full-time, permanent capacity. This is an exciting and new opportunity for a clinical expert to step into a leadership role, where you will coordinate and supervise a skilled OT team while delivering advanced, evidence-based care.

With your strong clinical reasoning, up-to-date professional knowledge, and leadership capabilities, you will play a key role in driving excellence, innovation, and patient satisfaction across our services. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you'll provide senior-level occupational therapy care, while ensuring best practice in line with Occupational Therapy Australia, AHPRA, ethical codes, and SJGHC policies. This is your chance to make a real impact, both on clients' lives and on the future of our Occupational Therapy services.

• Provides clinical occupational therapy services to client groups and circumstances of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills.
• Active participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings, case conferences and family meetings.
• Use of evidence-based practice clinical outcome measures and patient feedback for satisfaction measures and quality assurance activities.
• Ensure prioritisation and delegation of duties of occupational therapy caseloads for self and supervised caregivers.
• Promotes professional values and ethics in clinical practice.
• Demonstrates consolidated, current knowledge of research, evidence-based practice in occupational therapy and related clinical areas.
• Acts as a clinical consultant for the discipline within the specialty.
• Documents in the patient/clients healthcare record in accordance with SJGHC policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates strong, current clinical knowledge and skills and applies this to support individuals and teams in clinical practice.
• Leads and contributes to undergraduate student and volunteer programs and training.
• Leads and develops highly performing teams.
• Acts as a role model for caregivers in promoting professional values and ethics.

To be successful in this role, you will hold a tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy and current registration with AHPRA. You will bring advanced clinical expertise in a highly specialised area of practice within a healthcare setting, ideally supported by experience in a senior clinical position. Your ability to coordinate and lead service delivery within your specialty will be crucial in ensuring exceptional outcomes for both patients and the broader health service.

We are seeking a strong team leader with a proven track record in developing high-performing teams, along with demonstrated skills in clinical supervision and mentoring. You will possess exceptional communication skills, written, verbal, and interpersonal, with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines. Experience in facilitating quality improvement initiatives and contributing to research projects will be highly regarded, as will your capacity for strategic thinking and service development. Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do, committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

• Salary: $141,104 to $146,218 per annum, plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent full-time position, working 76 hours per fortnight
• Discounts on hospital services & private health insurance
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• • Novated leasing
  • work related expenses
  • self-education
  • additional superannuation
• Free on-site parking
• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport
• Innovative Professional Development opportunities
• A welcoming and supportive culture
• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being program

All applicants are asked to submit a covering letter (of no more than two pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.

For enquiries contact Jenni French, Occupational Therapist Manager, on (08) 9462 4329.

If suitable applicants are identified, advertisement may close prior to listed date and screening/interviews may commence throughout the advertising process.

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being. Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.