Advance Your Occupational Therapy Career in Specialist Behaviour Support

Step into a senior Occupational Therapy role where your expertise will influence patient care, workforce capability and service excellence

Job details

Your new role:

As an Advanced Occupational Therapist – Behaviour Support, you will provide specialist clinical expertise and leadership to support patients aged 16 years and over with complex behavioural needs. Working across acute and subacute settings, you will help shape contemporary behaviour support practices while mentoring clinicians and driving service excellence. You will:

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and consultancy services for patients with complex behaviour support needs.
• Provide clinical leadership, expert advice and mentoring to Occupational Therapists and multidisciplinary teams across the service.
• Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based clinical practices, protocols and innovative models of care.
• Contribute to service improvement, workforce capability, education and research initiatives that enhance patient outcomes and organisational performance.

About you:

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Occupational Therapist who is passionate about advancing behaviour support services and fostering excellence in clinical practice. You have:

• Demonstrated advanced clinical expertise in Occupational Therapy behaviour support and complex patient management.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence and support multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven experience supervising, mentoring and developing clinicians while promoting safe, high-quality care.
• A commitment to innovation, service improvement, research and evidence-based practice that drives better outcomes for patients and services.

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.

Bayside Occupational Therapy Department

The Bayside Occupational Therapy Department, based at Redland Hospital employs approximately 21 FTE and delivers services across Redland Hospital, Redlands Satellite Health Centre, Wynnum-Manly Gundu Pa Community Health Centre, Pandanus Unit, Redland Residential Care and within the community. This position may be required to work throughout Bayside Health Service and the position's primary work location may change based on operational requirements. This position may be required to provide Occupational Therapy services on weekends and public holidays at Redland Hospital on a rotational or roster basis.

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS06685533 Role Description (PDF)