Occupational Therapist

Your new Role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Adult Acute Psychiatric Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you will play a pivotal role in delivering and advancing high-quality, evidence-based OT services. This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary team, influencing patient care and service development through clinical leadership and education.

• Provide expert Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention, and discharge planning for complex adult psychiatric patients.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives and contribute to clinical education and supervision of junior clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure patient-centered, compassionate care and seamless service delivery.
• Contribute to clinical governance by monitoring outcomes, developing protocols, and supporting evidence-based practice advancements.

About You:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Occupational Therapist with a passion for mental health and a commitment to professional excellence. The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Proven expertise delivering Occupational Therapy services in an acute psychiatric setting, with strong clinical judgement and ability to manage complex caseloads.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and provide high-level clinical advice.
• Leadership experience, including supervising and mentoring less experienced clinicians and students, with a proactive approach to clinical education.
• A strong commitment to continuous improvement, with experience initiating and evaluating quality and service enhancement projects.

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.

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.