Lead Change as a Senior Occupational Therapist - Shape Patient Outcomes and Services!

Join Metro South Health’s Logan Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team as a Senior Occupational Therapist. This fixed-term full-time role until June 2027 offers the chance to deliver advanced, evidence-based occupational therapy services within a dynamic multidisciplinary mental health team, while leading clinical innovation and mentoring others!

Job details

About your role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist with Logan Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT), you will provide expert clinical services within an interprofessional team focused on intensive rehabilitation in addiction and mental health. You will drive high-quality patient care, participate in service development, and provide supervision and mentorship to less experienced clinicians and students.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver advanced occupational therapy (OT) assessments, interventions, and evaluations in line with clinical protocols
• Act as a clinical reference and leader within the MIRT team
• Develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based clinical practices and policies
• Provide supervision, training, and support to HP3 clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants
• Lead and participate in quality improvement and research initiatives

About you:

You are a highly skilled and motivated occupational therapist with advanced clinical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to innovation in mental health rehabilitation. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy mentoring others while driving continuous service improvements.

Your Skills and Attributes:

• Registered Occupational Therapist with AHPRA, with a tertiary degree in OT
• Demonstrated advanced clinical skills and independent decision-making
• Strong leadership and supervision capabilities
• Ability to manage complex workloads and multidisciplinary collaboration
• Current Class C driver's licence and willingness to operate a vehicle as required

What we can offer you:

• 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.

Logan Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team

The Logan Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT) is a specialised mental health rehabilitation service provided in a community setting that consists of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians including medical, clinical psychology, social work, occupational therapy, nursing, and peer support work. The multidisciplinary team provides specialist rehabilitation services to people aged between 18 and 65 years who present with complex mental health needs to address functional impairments secondary to their illness with the aim of maximising the individual's overall quality of life. The team provides services between business hours on weekdays that includes both individual and group programs.

Care provided is consumer focused, trauma informed, family centric, culturally sensitive, evidence based, strengths based, and recovery oriented.

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 Metro South Health:

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

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.

Documents

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

• MS09655732 role description (PDF, 574KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants