Make a System-Wide Impact on Patient Flow and Care Transitions

Join Princess Alexandra Hospital's innovative Pathways Team and play a key role in supporting complex long-stay patients to achieve safe, timely discharges. Utilise your advanced Occupational Therapy skills, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to service improvements that enhance patient outcomes across Metro South Health. This role is Temporary Full-time until 30th of June 2027.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Pathways Team, you will provide expert clinical services to complex long-stay patients across acute and subacute settings. Working within a highly collaborative interdisciplinary team, you will support patient flow initiatives, facilitate complex discharge planning, and contribute to service development that improves access to care and patient outcomes. In this role, you will:

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessments, interventions and discharge planning for complex long-stay patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to address barriers to discharge, including NDIS, disability, legal and community support pathways.
• Provide expert clinical advice and guidance regarding long-stay patient management and care transitions.
• Support service improvement, quality initiatives and evidence-based practice development.

About you:

You are an experienced Occupational Therapist who thrives in complex clinical environments and is passionate about improving patient outcomes through innovative discharge solutions. Your skills include:

• Advanced clinical expertise in acute, subacute and complex discharge planning environments.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement and conflict resolution skills.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and make sound clinical decisions independently.
• Demonstrated commitment to leadership, mentoring and continuous service improvement.

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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)
  
  MS07685893 Role Description (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)