Occupational Therapist

Join a Collaborative, Compassionate Team at Coorparoo CCU
Step into a leadership role delivering high-quality, evidence-based Occupational Therapy services within a supportive, interdisciplinary mental health team at Coorparoo CCU. This position offers the opportunity to shape clinical practice, mentor emerging clinicians, and drive service improvement initiatives that make a real difference in people's recovery journeys.
Your New Role
As the Senior Occupational Therapist at Coorparoo CCU, you'll provide advanced clinical services within a dynamic and collaborative interprofessional team supporting consumers in their mental health recovery. This is a key position focused on delivering best-practice care, fostering innovation in service delivery, and supporting the professional growth of others.

In This Role, You Will

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy assessment and intervention within a mental health rehabilitation setting.
• Exercise advanced clinical reasoning and independent decision-making for complex cases.
• Contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical practices, protocols, and quality initiatives.
• Provide supervision, education, and mentoring to less experienced clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.
• Lead or contribute to research, service improvement, and innovation projects that enhance the quality and efficiency of care.

About you:
You are a motivated and experienced Occupational Therapist who brings compassion, initiative, and a commitment to person-centred care. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are ready to contribute your leadership, clinical expertise, and innovative ideas to improve service outcomes.

You Will Demonstrate

• Proven expertise in delivering occupational therapy services in mental health or rehabilitation settings.
• Strong clinical decision-making, prioritisation, and time management skills in complex environments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with consumers, carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• A passion for mentoring, supervision, and fostering the development of students and emerging clinicians.
• Experience leading or contributing to service improvement, evaluation, or research initiatives.

Mandatory Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy.
• Compliance with vaccination requirements as per Health Employment Directive No. 01/16.

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What We Can Offer You

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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 us:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses .

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

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 better together .

Occupational group
Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support