Advanced Allied Health Assistant | Make an Impact Every Day

Bring your clinical expertise and leadership skills to our Chronic Disease Service, supporting patients and allied health professionals while helping deliver high-quality, person-centred care.

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Your new role:

As an Advanced Allied Health Assistant, you'll play an important role in supporting allied health professionals and delivering high-quality care to patients with complex and chronic health needs. Working under the direction and delegation of Allied Health Professionals, you'll provide advanced clinical assistance while also helping coordinate, support and mentor other Allied Health Assistants within the Chronic Disease Service.

• Provide specialised clinical screening and interventions as delegated by Allied Health Professionals.
• Implement individual and group treatment programs and provide feedback on patient progress.
• Support patients with personal care, manual handling, transport and therapy activities.
• Set up, monitor and maintain clinical equipment, therapy resources and assistive devices.

About you:

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Allied Health Assistant who can confidently apply their skills within a defined scope of practice, communicate effectively with patients and colleagues, and provide leadership and support to other team members.

• The ability to work collaboratively while understanding and maintaining your scope of practice.
• Strong organisation and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
• Confidence to recognise changes in patient function or status and appropriately escalate concerns.
• The ability to support, mentor and guide less experienced Allied Health Assistants and students.

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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:

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.

We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.

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)
  
  Role Description_MS09691332 (PDF)