The Occupational Therapy Department are seeking a Occupational Therapist – Senior (Acute) to join them. In this role you will be required to provide leadership and mentoring to assist in the ongoing development of Occupational Therapy services within the Cairns Hospital primarily within Acute Care, linking with other allied health practitioners in relevant clinical areas as directed by the Director of Occupational Therapy.

Job details

About us: The Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service covers a large geographic area with a diverse and growing population. The Health Service provides a wide range of primary care, acute and specialist services.

Our staff are a part of the community we serve, and we strongly believe that health outcomes are enhanced by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of local health services.

About your opportunity: 

Deliver high level Occupational Therapy clinical services within Cairns Hospital including the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Emergency Department (ED) and Surgical inpatients/outpatients with appropriate community liaison as directed by the Director of Occupational Therapy.

About your role: 

• Utilise high level professional and clinical knowledge, expertise, clinical decision making, organisational and risk management skills to enhance safe and efficient service delivery on a daily basis, across the continuum of care.
• Demonstrate highly developed communication skills with patients, their families and other internal and external stakeholders.
• Initiate, develop and implement quality and service improvement activities that enhance the delivery of Occupational Therapy services including the review of clinical practices, workplace procedures and protocols in line with directions of the Department.
• Provide direction, clinical practice supervision, education, mentoring and assisting with core competency training and skill development to less experienced Occupational Therapy practitioners, allied health assistants, support staff and students within scope of practice guidelines to ensure the development and maintenance of professional clinical standards.

As a Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service employee, not only will you receive competitive remuneration, you will also have access to:

• Generous superannuation
• Salary packaging
• Annual incremental increases
• Career training and development
• Flexible work arrangements
• Wellness programs

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Why choose Cairns?

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You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Cairns and Hinterland here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cairns_hinterland

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are to apply online. If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 1. CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  Documentation preparation guide (PDF, 229KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CAH652035 Role Description (PDF, 409KB)
  Role Description