Shape the Future of Trauma & Surgical Occupational Therapy

Join Princess Alexandra Hospital as an Advanced Clinical Occupational Therapist (HP5) within Trauma Surgical Services. This role is Temporary Part-time for 12 months.

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Your new role:

As the Advanced Clinical Leader – Occupational Therapy Trauma & Surgery, you will provide expert clinical leadership and operational management across the Trauma and Surgical service line at Princess Alexandra Hospital. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, evidence-based Occupational Therapy services while driving innovation, workforce development, education, and service improvement initiatives. In this role you will:

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention for complex trauma and surgical patients.
• Lead and support a team of Occupational Therapists, Clinical Assistants, and students within a dynamic acute hospital environment.
• Provide operational management including workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, and service coordination.
• Drive quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives across the service.

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist with advanced clinical expertise in trauma and surgical services and a passion for leadership, innovation, and patient-centred care. You thrive in complex healthcare environments and are committed to mentoring teams and improving service delivery outcomes. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy within trauma and surgical healthcare settings.
• Strong leadership and operational management capability, including workforce coordination and staff supervision.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience leading service improvement, research, and evidence-based practice initiatives.

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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:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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 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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05682516 Role Description (PDF)