Help People Thrive Through Recovery - Senior Occupational Therapist!

Join Metro South Health as a permanent full-time Senior Occupational Therapist with the Logan Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT). Apply your advanced clinical skills to support recovery, deliver person-centred care and help people achieve meaningful outcomes. Work alongside a collaborative multidisciplinary team while providing clinical guidance, mentoring colleagues and contributing to innovative service improvements.

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Your new role:

As a Senior Occupational Therapist with Logan MIRT, you will deliver high-quality, evidence-based occupational therapy services to support consumers with complex needs. Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will use your clinical expertise to promote recovery, independence and improved quality of life while helping shape the delivery of responsive, person-centred care.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver expert care: Provide evidence-based occupational therapy to support recovery, independence and better outcomes for consumers with complex needs.
• Work collaboratively: Partner with consumers, carers and health professionals to coordinate care and support recovery.
• Lead and mentor: Share your expertise by supporting and developing junior clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.
• Make a difference: Drive service improvements, clinical education and innovative practices to enhance consumer care.

About you:

You are an experienced occupational therapist who brings strong clinical expertise, sound judgement and a genuine commitment to person-centred care. You thrive in a collaborative environment, confidently manage complex clinical demands and enjoy supporting colleagues to deliver high-quality services. Your leadership and problem-solving skills will help strengthen clinical practice and improve outcomes for consumers.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Apply clinical expertise: Deliver high-quality occupational therapy and confidently manage complex clinical needs.
• Lead collaboration: Build strong partnerships across multidisciplinary teams and provide clear, effective clinical advice.
• Coordinate complex care: Prioritise competing demands and drive effective patient care and discharge planning.
• Lead and improve: Mentor junior clinicians and students while driving innovative service improvements.

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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 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)
  
  MS11695861 Role Description (PDF)