Your new role:

As a valued member of the Metro South Palliative Care Service, you'll deliver high-quality Occupational Therapy services to adults receiving palliative care across both community and inpatient settings (Canossa Palliative Care Unit).

You'll work within an interprofessional team to support patients and their families through assessment, education, therapeutic intervention, and discharge planning — helping each person maintain dignity, safety, and quality of life.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Providing detailed clinical assessment, intervention, and patient-centred goal setting.
• Delivering therapy that supports safety, comfort, and functional independence.
• Contributing to quality improvement, service development, and research initiatives.
• Supporting and supervising students, assistants, and less experienced staff.

About you:

You are a compassionate and motivated Occupational Therapist with a commitment to patient-centred care and professional excellence. You thrive in a collaborative team environment and bring both empathy and clinical expertise to support patients at all stages of their palliative journey.

You'll bring:

• Proven ability to provide high-quality, evidence-based therapy in a palliative or rehabilitation setting.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills with a patient-first mindset.
• Experience or interest in supervision, clinical education, or service improvement.
• Capacity to work independently in both community and hospital settings.

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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.

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.