Make a Real Difference in Patient Care – Join Our Allied Health Team

Join a supportive healthcare team where you’ll play a hands-on role in patient care. As an Allied Health Assistant, you’ll work alongside experienced professionals to deliver therapy programs, support patient recovery, and make a meaningful impact every day.

Job details

Your new role:

As an Allied Health Assistant, you will support Allied Health Professionals in delivering high-quality care by assisting with both clinical and administrative tasks. Working under supervision, you'll contribute to patient recovery by implementing therapy programs, supporting patient mobility, and ensuring equipment and resources are ready for use.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver delegated patient interventions under the direction of therapists
• Assist with individual and group therapy programs
• Support patient mobility, transfers, and personal care
• Set up, monitor, and maintain therapy equipment and resources

About you:

You are a reliable and compassionate team player who understands the importance of working within scope while contributing to excellent patient outcomes.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience supporting allied health or physiotherapy services (rehabilitation experience highly regarded)
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively
• Good time management and the ability to prioritise tasks effectively
• Confidence assisting with manual handling and patient mobility tasks
• A commitment to patient-centred care and cultural sensitivity

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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS05681875 - Role Description (PDF)