
Occupational Therapist Assistant Director (Acute)
Metro South Health Service
Posted 9 days ago
Your new role:
In this senior leadership role, you will oversee a large multidisciplinary Occupational Therapy team to support excellence in clinical care, education, research, and service improvement.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing advanced clinical and consultancy services across acute and specialty care areas.
- Leading and supporting a team of Occupational Therapists, ensuring effective service delivery and workforce planning.
- Driving quality improvement, research, and innovation in service models and clinical practice.
About you:
You are a values-driven leader with a passion for clinical excellence, staff development, and innovative healthcare delivery. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and have the expertise to influence and guide service outcomes.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Advanced clinical expertise in occupational therapy within an acute hospital setting.
- Proven leadership in managing teams, workload planning, and service delivery.
- Strong communication, negotiation, and change management skills in multidisciplinary environments.
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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:
Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.
We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.
Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.
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.
About Metro South Health Service
Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions.
We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland’s population. We employ more than 10,000 staff and have an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion.
Our catchment spans 3,856 square kilometres and covers the area from the Brisbane River in the north to Redland City in the east, south to Logan and the eastern portion of the Scenic Rim to the border of New South Wales.
We have five major hospitals in addition to a number of health centres throughout the region.
Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.
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