Your new role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to patients within the Spinal Injuries Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You'll provide leadership, clinical expertise, and support to a multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention, and evaluation for spinal injury patients within a multidisciplinary team.
• Lead quality improvement, research, and clinical education initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient care.
• Supervise, mentor, and support HP3 clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.
• Contribute to service development and innovation within a dynamic, state-wide spinal rehabilitation service.

About you:

You are an experienced Occupational Therapist with a strong clinical foundation, leadership skills, and a passion for advancing rehabilitation care for people with spinal cord injuries.

• Demonstrated expertise in providing complex Occupational Therapy services and managing patient care in a specialised clinical environment.
• Highly developed communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to lead, collaborate, and engage effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Proven ability to provide supervision, training, and professional guidance to junior staff and students.
• A proactive approach to service improvement, innovation, and the implementation of evidence-based clinical practice.

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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:

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.

Princess Alexandra Hospital, a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career!

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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 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.