Take your occupational therapy career beyond clinical practice and into education.

Join Metro South Health at Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, in a temporary full-time Senior Occupational Therapist role supporting clinical education, developing students and new graduates, and strengthening occupational therapy practice across multiple hospital and community services.

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Your new role:

Passionate about developing others and shaping the future of occupational therapy? Empower clinical educators, support emerging clinicians and strengthen clinical education across hospital and community services.

In this role, you will:

• Coordinate and support clinical education for occupational therapy students and new graduates across Logan, Beaudesert, QEII and Redland facilities, including mental health and community services.
• Build the confidence, skills and knowledge of clinicians in delivering high-quality clinical education.
• Provide clinical advice, supervision and guidance to students and new graduates, supporting their professional growth and development.
• Collaborate with clinical educators, university partners and multidisciplinary teams to improve education practices and learning opportunities.
• Contribute to service improvement, evidence-based practice and innovative clinical education initiatives across Metro South Health.

About you:

You're an experienced occupational therapist who enjoys sharing knowledge, building relationships and helping others reach their potential. You'll bring:

• Strong occupational therapy clinical knowledge, expertise and professional judgement.
• The ability to support clinical education and respond to the learning needs of students, new graduates and staff.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships and provide clinical advice.
• Leadership and initiative, including the ability to plan, implement and evaluate service improvement activities.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous learning and delivering safe, high-quality care.

Mandatory requirements: A recognised tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy and current registration with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (AHPRA) are required. 

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What we can offer you:

• Make a meaningful impact by supporting the next generation of occupational therapists and strengthening clinical education across multiple facilities and community services.
• Grow your professional influence through collaboration with clinical educators, university partners and statewide clinical education leaders.
• Expand your experience across diverse clinical settings, practice areas and multidisciplinary teams.
• Contribute to innovation and improvement by helping shape contemporary, evidence-based clinical education practices.
• Support your work life balance through Metro South Health's flexible working arrangements
• 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.

Logan Hospital:

Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.

We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.

Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.

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)
  
  MS11695838_RD (PDF)