Queensland Health and Queensland Ambulance Service are looking for a Senior Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist - (Falls Co-Responder) to join their team. The QAS Falls Co-Response Program aims to respond and safely resolve patient falls through enhanced cooperation, collaboration and understanding between Queensland Health and Queensland Ambulance Service. The response capable units consist of a two-member crew comprising a Paramedic and an Allied Health Practitioner providing a specialised dual response falls team to complete rapid community assessment, intervention, and where appropriate, prevent avoidable hospital transfers.

Job details

HP4 Falls Co-Response Candidate Information Session

6:30 PM | [Thursday 22 May 2025] | Via Microsoft Teams (Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 451 232 504 041 5 Passcode: p9qv9Nv7)
Approx. 45 minutes | Session will be recorded 

This session will be hosted by the Metro North and Metro South Hospital and Health Service Program Manager and Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) Program Coordinator.  It will provide a consistent overview of the Falls Co-Response Program, the HP4 role, key responsibilities, and scope of practice. We'll also cover frequently asked questions and give candidates the opportunity to ask their own. Attendance is strongly encouraged for anyone considering applying.

Please note: the HP4 Metro South HHS and Metro North HHS QAS Allied Health Falls Co-response roles are being con-currently advertised. There is no requirement to apply to both role descriptions for this position. All applicants (MSH and MNH) will be pooled and considered together in the recruitment process.

We are Metro South Health 

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

We are truly dedicated people who care about our community. We come to work to make a difference. We save lives, changes lives and make the world a better place. We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.

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 committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.

We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Manage an allocated workload to deliver Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy services, including assessment, intervention and evaluation within an interprofessional team in accordance with established clinical & departmental protocols, policies and procedures, utilising evidence-based practice and ethical standards and under clinical practice supervision or professional guidance of more senior staff.
• Acts as a clinical reference point with the Falls Co-Responder team and responds to every-day clinical demands.
• Collaborate on and undertake the development of evidence-based clinical practices, policies and protocols within the Falls Co-Response Program.
• Apply increasingly independent clinical judgement to Occupational Therapy/Physiotherapy complex decision making with only occasional clinical/professional supervision.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description. 

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.  

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance. 

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases. 

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: https://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

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.

• MS06637788 RD (PDF, 455KB)
  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, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants