Support rehabilitation and recovery in people’s homes and communities
Metro South Health is seeking an Allied Health Assistant (CA3) to join the Rehab@Home service within Community and Oral Health Services at Redland Hospital. Available in permanent full-time and part-time arrangements, this role supports allied health professionals to deliver high-quality, person-centred rehabilitation and restorative care, primarily in clients’ homes and community settings.
Your new role:
As an Allied Health Assistant within the Rehab@Home service, you will work under the supervision and direction of allied health professionals to support rehabilitation, restorative and hospital-avoidance care for clients in the community. The role involves delivering delegated therapy activities, supporting daily living tasks and assisting with equipment, documentation and service delivery to help clients regain independence and functional capacity.
Key responsibilities include:
* Delivering delegated therapy and rehabilitation activities under supervision
* Assisting with personal care, manual handling and transport of clients
* Supporting individual and group treatment programs as directed
* Preparing, transporting and maintaining therapy equipment and resources
* Providing basic education to clients on defined topics
About you:
You are a reliable and motivated Allied Health Assistant who enjoys hands-on work and supporting people to achieve their rehabilitation goals. You understand your scope of practice, communicate effectively and work well both independently and as part of a team.
You will bring:
* Experience working as an Allied Health Assistant or in a similar support role
* Ability to deliver delegated therapy tasks within a community setting
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills
* Effective time management and ability to prioritise workload
* Understanding of scope of practice and task delegation frameworks
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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:
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.
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.