Occupational Therapist - Senior - Gordonvale Hospital

Make the move. Make a difference.

Help people get back to what matters.

Lead, inspire, and make a lasting impact as a senior Occupational Therapist delivering high-level services. In this rewarding role, you will provide expert clinical care while driving excellence through strong leadership, mentoring, and supervision of Occupational Therapists, Allied Health Assistants, and emerging multidisciplinary professionals.

About us: 

The Occupational Therapy Department delivers patient-centred, evidence-based services across Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service, supporting individuals to achieve optimal independence, safety, and participation in daily activities. The team provides comprehensive assessment, intervention, and discharge planning across acute, subacute, and community settings, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework. The department is committed to clinical excellence, continuous service improvement, and workforce development through strong leadership, mentoring, and supervision, while maintaining flexible and responsive service delivery to meet the evolving needs of patients and the health service.

Our values were developed by our staff, patients and community. They guide our work and actions every day. Our staff are part of the community we serve. We believe that we can improve health outcomes by involving our community in the planning and evaluation of their local health services.

About your role:

In this position you will…..

• Provide clinical practice supervision, education, mentoring and assisting with core skills training and development and performance management of less experienced Occupational Therapy practitioners, allied health assistants, support staff and students within scope of practice guidelines to ensure the development and maintenance of clinical standards.
• Utilise high level clinical knowledge, expertise and decision making based upon current evidence, to provide safe and efficient service delivery to multiple service areas on a daily basis across the continuum of care.
• Provide leadership within the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams in promoting and conducting activities aimed at continuous quality improvement including the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of clinical services service, review of clinical practices, work instructions and procedures.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

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Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

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