Support recovery through advanced allied health care

Play an important role in supporting recovery-focused allied health care and improving outcomes for consumers across Metro South.

Job details

Your new role:

Make a meaningful contribution to consumer care by providing advanced clinical and administrative support to Allied Health Professionals within Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. Working under delegation and supervision, you will play an important role in supporting high-quality allied health services and coordinating allied health assistant activities across the service.

• Deliver advanced clinical support including specialised screening, therapy programs, patient education and contributing to treatment implementation for consumers with complex needs under the direction of Allied Health Professionals.
• Coordinate day-to-day allied health assistant workloads across disciplines, supporting service delivery requirements, planned and unplanned leave coverage and changing clinical priorities.
• Support the safe and effective delivery of care through equipment management, stock control, documentation and maintaining therapy resources and assistive devices.
• Contribute to a collaborative multidisciplinary environment by participating in team activities, supporting quality improvement initiatives and mentoring less experienced allied health assistants and students.

About you:

You will bring strong allied health assistant experience, a collaborative approach and a commitment to delivering person-centred care within a multidisciplinary mental health setting.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver advanced allied health assistant interventions under delegation, including therapy support, patient education and clinical assistance for consumers with complex needs.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with Allied Health Professionals, consumers, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to prioritise workload, coordinate competing demands, support other allied health assistants and work confidently within a delegated scope of practice.
• A commitment to safe, high-quality and inclusive care, with experience contributing to service improvement and maintaining accurate clinical documentation.

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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:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental 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.

• MS06684559 Role Description (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)