Lead the Future of Hand Therapy at QEII Hospital

Join the Occupational Therapy team at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Coopers Plains, in this Temporary Part-Time (15.2 hours per fortnight until September 2027) opportunity where you'll provide advanced outpatient hand therapy services while leading clinical excellence, mentoring clinicians and driving innovation in patient care.

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Your new role:

As our Advanced Clinical Occupational Therapist (Hand Therapy), you'll play a key leadership role in delivering specialised outpatient hand therapy services while supporting the ongoing development of clinical practice by:

• Providing advanced assessment, treatment and consultancy services in outpatient hand therapy.
• Leading evidence-based clinical practice, service improvement and innovation.
• Mentoring, supervising and developing Occupational Therapists, assistants and students.
• Acting as a clinical expert and resource for complex hand therapy cases.
• Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional patient-centred care.
• Contributing to research, education and quality improvement initiatives.

About you:

You're an experienced Occupational Therapist with advanced clinical expertise in hand therapy who is passionate about delivering outstanding patient outcomes by:

• Demonstrating advanced clinical skills in outpatient hand therapy.
• Providing leadership, clinical supervision and mentoring to support team development.
• Building strong collaborative relationships across multidisciplinary teams.
• Applying sound clinical judgement to manage complex patient presentations.
• Driving service improvement, innovation and evidence-based practice.
• Communicating effectively with patients, colleagues and key stakeholders.

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What we can offer you:

• The opportunity to work alongside highly skilled allied health professionals in a supportive multidisciplinary team.
• Ongoing professional development, education and research opportunities.
• The chance to influence service development and lead improvements in specialist hand therapy.
• Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance.
• 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.

Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital:

The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital (QEII) is a medium metropolitan adult facility providing a range of inpatient and outpatient services including a 24-hour Emergency Department. We provide a range of services, including surgery, cardiology, endoscopy, orthopaedics, gynaecology, urology, geriatric, respiratory and emergency medicine.

We're making our hospital bigger and better to make it easier for our growing community to get the health care they need. We'll have more beds, medical wards and expanded intensive care and emergency services planned to be opened by 2027.

QEII Hospital, a place of opportunity to make a difference and grow your career!

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)
  
  MS07687232_Role Description (PDF)