Senior Prosthetist/Orthotist – Make Every Step Count in Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Join a leading Allied Health team delivering advanced Prosthetic and Orthotic services, mentoring clinicians, driving service improvement, and improving patient outcomes across a diverse clinical environment.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Prosthetist/Orthotist, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical services to patients across Metro South Health while working within a collaborative multidisciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your advanced clinical expertise, contribute to service innovation, and play a key role in mentoring emerging clinicians and students. You'll help shape the future of Prosthetic and Orthotic services through leadership, quality improvement initiatives, and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver advanced Prosthetic and Orthotic assessment, intervention and evaluation services
• Manage a varied and complex clinical caseload with a high degree of professional autonomy
• Provide specialist clinical advice and support to multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of evidence-based clinical practices, protocols and service initiatives
• Lead and participate in quality improvement, research and service evaluation activities

About you:

You are an experienced and patient-focused Prosthetist/Orthotist who is passionate about improving mobility, independence and quality of life for patients. You thrive in a collaborative healthcare environment and bring strong clinical judgement, leadership capability and a commitment to evidence-based practice. You enjoy supporting the development of others and are motivated to contribute to service innovation and excellence.

You will bring:

• Tertiary qualifications in Prosthetics and Orthotics recognised by AOPA
• Demonstrated experience delivering high-level Prosthetic and Orthotic clinical services
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills in complex healthcare environments
• Excellent communication, collaboration and stakeholder engagement abilities
• Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams

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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 Prosthetic/Orthotic and Podiatry Services Department is a multi-disciplinary clinically based Allied Health Department, providing high level clinical and consultancy prosthetic, orthotic and podiatry services to the specialist Acute and Rehabilitation Departments of the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Metro South Hospital and Health Service. The department is also responsible for the clinical coordination of the Princess Alexandra Hospital Amputee Clinic and the Chronic Foot Care Clinic.

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.

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