Senior Optometrist – Glaucoma, Eye Casualty & Outpatient Care

Join one of Queensland's busiest ophthalmology services, delivering advanced optometry care across Eye Casualty and Outpatient clinics. Apply your clinical expertise, lead service improvements, mentor emerging clinicians and contribute to exceptional patient outcomes within a collaborative multidisciplinary team. This role is Temporary part time from August 2026 to February 2027 with possibility of extension.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Optometrist within the Princess Alexandra Hospital Ophthalmology Service, you will provide high-level clinical care across Eye Casualty and Outpatient clinics, managing complex presentations and contributing to service excellence within a multidisciplinary team. This is an opportunity to work at the top of your scope while supporting education, research and quality improvement initiatives. Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering advanced optometry assessment, treatment and follow-up care
• Managing complex ophthalmology outpatient and review waitlist patients
• Providing clinical advice and support to colleagues and multidisciplinary teams
• Supervising and mentoring junior clinicians, students and assistants

About you:

You are an experienced and patient-focused Optometrist who thrives in a fast-paced tertiary healthcare environment and enjoys contributing to both clinical excellence and service development. You will bring:

• Advanced clinical expertise in ophthalmology and complex patient management
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary teams
• Experience supervising, mentoring or educating clinicians and students
• A proactive approach to quality improvement, innovation and evidence-based practice

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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.

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• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS07686015 Role Description (PDF)
  
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