Make a Lasting Impact: Senior Occupational Therapist - Child & Youth Mental Health

Join a passionate, interprofessional team delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to children and young people. Use your clinical expertise to make a meaningful difference - while mentoring others and driving service innovation.

Job details

Your new role:

We're looking for a compassionate and skilled Senior Occupational Therapist to deliver high-quality clinical services within our dynamic Child and Youth Mental Health team in Logan. In this pivotal role, you will:

• Provide evidence-based occupational therapy services to young people in a supportive, recovery-oriented, interprofessional environment.
• Apply independent clinical judgment to complex cases, with access to senior clinical support as needed.
• Lead and contribute to service improvement initiatives, including quality improvement and research projects.
• Supervise and support early-career clinicians, students, and allied health assistants.

About you:

You're an experienced occupational therapist with a passion for child and youth mental health. You thrive in collaborative environments and are committed to both clinical excellence and ongoing improvement.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated high-level skills in delivering OT services in a mental health setting, including assessment, intervention, and discharge planning.
• Strong ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate effectively with families, carers, and team members.
• Proven leadership in mentoring, supervising and developing others within a clinical setting.
• A proactive approach to service development, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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.

About us:

About the Logan Child and Youth Mental Health Service 

The Logan Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) is a dynamic and innovative team that provides specialised mental health care to children and young people under the age of 18 who experience severe and complex mental health difficulties, and where their needs cannot be met by other services. This work is inclusive of working with families and carers as well as other organisations that are involved with the young person e.g., school, and family support services. Logan CYMHS works as a high functioning multi-disciplinary team under the clinical governance of a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and is well integrated with the suite of services offered by Metro South CYMHS Division (as below) and other Statewide Programs (e.g., Jacaranda Place).

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.

• MS09655150 RD (PDF, 449KB)
  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