Step into a leadership role where your clinical expertise and passion for people can truly shine. As the Assistant Director of Occupational Therapy at Toowoomba Hospital, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping high-quality, evidence-based care across Darling Downs Health. This is your opportunity to lead with purpose—supporting a dedicated team, influencing service development, and making a meaningful difference in the lives of clients and colleagues alike. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and thrive in a supportive, values-driven environment, we'd love to hear from you.
What Your Day Will Look Like…
You'll move fluidly between delivering advanced clinical care and providing strategic leadership. Whether you're guiding a team member through a complex case, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance service delivery, or contributing to policy and workforce planning, your impact will be felt across the service. You'll be a trusted advisor, a mentor, and a change-maker—balancing hands-on clinical work with high-level decision-making. Every task you take on will be grounded in compassion, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence in care.
Let's talk about you
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
* Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
* Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
* Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
* Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
* Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breast screens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits
* Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
* A diverse work culture
* Career development
* Professional development opportunities
* Education opportunities, Study and Research
* Paid parental leave
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
* Discounted Private Health Insurance
* Fitness Passport
* Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
* Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step…
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
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