Occupational Therapy Assistant

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
As an Occupational Therapy Assistant you will contribute to patient care by providing administrative and clinical assistance to allied health professionals (AHP) in their day-to-day clinical duties. You will work under the supervision and direction of the AHP and undertakes only those clinical tasks delegated to them to:

- Ensure patients and other staff are treated fairly and with mutual respect and understanding, regardless of cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
- Assist the Occupational Therapists in the provision of services including individual and group work for inpatients and outpatients. This includes following specific directions and providing feedback to therapists on the progress of patients.
- Participate as a member of the multi-disciplinary team in the provision of patient care. This includes assisting with group preparation within allied health.
- Maintain effective communication with patients/clients, hospital visitors, and the multi-disciplinary health care team as required for optimal patient care.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.



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