Lead Meaningful Change in Child & Youth Mental Health

Join our dedicated Child and Youth Mental Health team as a Permanent Part-time Senior Occupational Therapist, where you'll deliver high-quality, culturally responsive care to First Nations young people and their families. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to provide expert clinical services, mentor emerging clinicians, and contribute to service innovation while working within a collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist, you'll play a key role in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of First Nations children and young people through evidence-based, person-centred care. Working within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll help shape better health outcomes while contributing to service improvement and clinical leadership.

In this role you will:

• Deliver advanced Occupational Therapy assessment, intervention and care planning for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to junior clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Build strong partnerships with families, schools, community organisations and healthcare providers to support coordinated care.
• Drive quality improvement, evidence-based practice and service development initiatives across the team.

About you:

You're an experienced Occupational Therapist who is passionate about improving the lives of First Nations children and young people through compassionate, culturally safe care. You enjoy working collaboratively, mentoring others and contributing to innovative mental health services.

You'll bring:

• Extensive experience delivering Occupational Therapy services within child and youth mental health or a similar clinical setting.
• Strong clinical reasoning and the ability to manage complex caseloads with a high level of autonomy.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with consumers, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• A commitment to continuous improvement, clinical education and culturally responsive, 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:

Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:

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.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  MS08687570 Role Description (PDF)