Advanced Occupational Therapist

Your new role:

As the Occupational Therapist Advanced – Primary Contact Hands, you'll play a key role in delivering and shaping specialist hand therapy services at Princess Alexandra Hospital. This is a clinical leadership position focused on expert practice, mentoring, education, and continuous improvement within the Primary Contact Hands model of care.

You will:

• Deliver advanced clinical and consultancy services for patients with complex hand and upper limb conditions.
• Lead clinical education, professional supervision and skill development for Occupational Therapists and assistants.
• Provide expert advice on Primary Contact Hand Therapy models, contributing to innovation and service development.
• Drive quality and research initiatives that enhance patient outcomes and evidence-based practice.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure holistic, patient-centred care.
• Participate in the weekend roster and support service coverage as required.

About you:

You are a highly skilled and motivated clinician who thrives in a leadership and mentorship role. You'll bring advanced clinical expertise in hand and upper limb management along with the ability to influence, educate and innovate within an integrated hospital setting.

You will demonstrate:

• Current registration with AHPRA as an Occupational Therapist.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in Primary Contact Hand Therapy, including post-surgical and trauma management.
• Strong leadership and mentoring capability, supporting staff development and supervision.
• Proven ability to implement service improvement, innovation, and clinical governance initiatives.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Postgraduate qualifications in hand therapy or full membership with the Australian Hand Therapy Association (AHTA) are highly regarded.

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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 us:

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.

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.