Your new role: As Deputy Director, you will lead initiatives that shape the future of occupational therapy within the facility, champion innovation in care models, and foster a culture of collaboration, professional growth and high performance. You will play a key role in strategic planning, operational governance, and aligning service priorities with broader organisational and state-wide health objectives. In this role, you will: * Provide strategic and operational leadership across a large, complex tertiary occupational therapy service spanning multiple work areas and locations * Lead key departmental portfolios including workforce planning, clinical education, weekend services, and professional governance * Influence service delivery, policy development and professional standards at a facility, HHS and state-wide level About you: You are a respected clinical and professional leader with extensive occupational therapy expertise and a passion for developing people, services and systems. You bring a strategic mindset, strong governance capability and the confidence to advocate for the profession in complex healthcare environments. You will bring: * Demonstrated senior leadership experience within a complex health service or large multidisciplinary team * Advanced clinical knowledge with the ability to provide authoritative professional and strategic advice * Proven capability in workforce management, operational governance and driving service improvement Check out our quick tips and application essentials! 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. Princess Alexandra Hospital: 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.