Senior Occupational Therapist – Emergency Department in Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Join a dynamic Emergency Department team delivering high-quality Occupational Therapy care in a fast-paced hospital environment. This senior role combines complex clinical work, interdisciplinary collaboration, and opportunities to mentor clinicians while driving service improvement and patient‐centred outcomes.
About This Role
Your new role:
As a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Emergency Department, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based Occupational Therapy services to patients within a collaborative interprofessional team.
This role provides the opportunity to apply advanced clinical judgement in a fast-paced environment while supporting the development of Occupational Therapy services and mentoring less experienced clinicians. You will play a key role in complex assessment, discharge planning, service development and quality improvement initiatives that enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver high-quality Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and evaluation within the Emergency Department.
* Manage a complex and dynamic caseload while prioritising patient needs in a fast-paced environment.
* Provide clinical advice and support to the Occupational Therapy team and broader multidisciplinary team.
* Contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives and evidence-based practice.
About You
You are an experienced Occupational Therapist who thrives in a complex and fast‐paced clinical environment. You bring strong clinical reasoning skills, the ability to prioritise rapidly changing workloads, and a commitment to patient‐centred care.
You enjoy collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and supporting the development of others while contributing to service improvement and innovation.
* Demonstrated experience delivering Occupational Therapy services within acute or emergency healthcare settings.
* Strong clinical reasoning and decision‐making skills in complex clinical situations.
* Ability to rapidly prioritise, assess and support discharge planning in a busy clinical environment.
* Experience supervising or mentoring junior clinicians, students or support staff.
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 PAH Occupational Therapy Department is managed within the Division of Allied Health and Rehabilitation and services are provided across two geographical sites: Woolloongabba and Wynnum West.
The primary function of the Division is to provide high quality clinical, teaching and research services that support the activities of the Divisions of Surgery, Medicine, Cancer, and Rehabilitation.
The PAH Occupational Therapy Department provides services to the Geriatric Assessment and Rehabilitation Unit, Brain Injuries Rehabilitation Unit, Spinal Injuries Unit, medical and surgical wards, cancer services, cardiac services, orthopaedics wards, outpatients (including hand therapy and lymphoedema), and the Security Unit and Mental Health.
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.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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