Experience everything Cairns has to offer while working as an Allied Health Assistant with the Occupational Therapy Department. In this role you will contribute to patient care by providing clinical support tasks delegated under the direct or indirect supervision of an allied health professional to patients in the acute, rehabilitation and outpatient areas.

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.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About your opportunity: 

To maximise quality patient focussed care and service delivery by supporting the allied health professionals with the delivery of appropriate therapeutic group and individual activities for inpatients and outpatients of the Cairns Hospital and by undertaking supportive nonclinical duties.

About your role: 

• Utilisation of a variety of computer programs and online systems in order to facilitate both clinical and non-clinical duties.
• Implement basic therapy programs and activities (individual and group) including functional mobility and functional transfer training, upper limb therapy, self-care retraining, domestic and community activity practice and setting up assistive equipment as directed by the treating Allied Health Professional.
• Undertake non-clinical tasks including retrieval, cleaning, and maintaining of equipment loaned to patients and other specialised equipment as well as performing routine clerical and administrative duties.
• Facilitate and monitor self-development to ensure ongoing education in order to meet professional competency, and mandatory training requirements, developing and maintaining records of same as evidence for audit purposes.

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?

Choose Cairns for your next career move - YouTube

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.

• CAH634745 Role Description (PDF, 813KB)
  Role Description
  
  1. CHHHS Information for Applicants v.20 (PDF, 939KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  Documentation preparation guide (PDF, 229KB)
  Information Package for Applicants