Ready to make a real impact in patients’ recovery journeys? Join us as a Senior Occupational Therapist specializing in Orthopaedics and Hand Therapy, delivering exceptional care across both inpatient and outpatient settings within the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service. This dynamic rotational role, based at Toowoomba Hospital and other facilities, offers a unique opportunity to expand your expertise while transforming lives.

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What your day will look like….

As a Senior Occupational Therapist in Orthopaedics and Hand Therapy, your day will involve delivering expert care to complex patients, using advanced clinical knowledge and decision-making to guide treatment and recovery. You'll collaborate closely with patients, families, and multidisciplinary teams to optimise outcomes, while leading service improvements and mentoring colleagues to uphold the highest professional standards. Embracing Darling Downs Health values, you'll also contribute to research, education, and quality initiatives that shape the future of occupational therapy within the health service.

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 breastscreens.

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.

Find out more about us!

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Further information

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

For more information about Darling Downs Health, please go to www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

Documents

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

• DD2509658109 Role Description (PDF, 365KB)
  Role Description
  
  Candidate Application Guide (PDF, 198KB)
  Application Kit