Take Your Hand Therapy Career to the Next Level

Join the Occupational Therapy team at Princess Alexandra Hospital as an advanced clinician in Hand Therapy, providing specialist care for complex hand and upper-limb conditions while leading clinical practice, education, research and service improvement.

Job details

Your new role:

Bring your advanced Occupational Therapy expertise to the Hands and Plastics service at Princess Alexandra Hospital. As an Occupational Therapist, you will provide specialised clinical and consultancy services to consumers with hand and upper-limb injuries, using advanced clinical knowledge, independent professional judgement and clinical leadership to achieve excellent patient outcomes.

You will,

• Provide advanced assessment, treatment planning and specialised therapy for complex hand and upper-limb presentations.
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to Occupational Therapists, allied health assistants and students.
• Lead innovative quality improvement, clinical practice development, research and knowledge translation across Hand Therapy.

About you:

You are an experienced Occupational Therapist with advanced clinical expertise and a strong interest in specialist Hand Therapy. You will bring excellent communication and organisational skills, together with the confidence to provide clinical leadership and support the development of less experienced clinicians.

You have;

• Advanced clinical expertise and demonstrated capability in high-quality, patient-centred Occupational Therapy.
• Strong communication, organisation and clinical leadership skills, particularly within specialist practice.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, mentor and develop less experienced staff and support high-quality service outcomes.

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.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS09690501 - Role Description (PDF)