About your role

As an Occupational Therapist with the Southern Moreton Bay Islands Community Partnership Service (SMBI CPS), you will deliver evidence-based therapy that supports patients to achieve independence and quality of life.

In this role, you will:

• Provide assessment, intervention, education, and discharge planning to patients in community and home-based settings.
• Work collaboratively with clients, families, carers, and interprofessional teams to ensure holistic and patient-centred care.
• Manage an allocated caseload, maintaining accurate documentation and timely reporting.
• Support quality improvement, research, and service development activities.
• Participate in supervision, clinical education, and contribute to the growth of junior staff and students.
• Travel as required between Redland Bay, SMBI, and other Metro South Health facilities.

About you

We are seeking an engaged, adaptable, and patient-centred professional with a passion for community health.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Clinical expertise in occupational therapy, including the ability to deliver assessments and interventions that enhance patient outcomes.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively within interprofessional teams, patients, carers, and external agencies.
• Organisational skills to manage caseloads and balance clinical and non-clinical duties.
• Commitment to learning and development, actively engaging in professional growth and evidence-based practice.
• Leadership potential, including the ability to support students and less experienced staff.
• Flexibility and initiative to contribute to service development, quality improvement, and research activities.

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

Community and Oral Health Services:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

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.