Description

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.

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.

Requirements

• Appointment to this position requires proof of qualification and/or registration or membership with the 
  appropriate association within Australia. Certified copies of the required information must be provided to the 
  appropriate supervisor/manager, prior to the commencement of clinical duties. 
• Vaccine Preventable Disease (VPD): It is a condition of employment for this role for the employee to be, and 
  remain, vaccinated against the following vaccine preventable diseases during their employment (Health 
  Employment Directive No. 01/16):  
  o measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) 
  o varicella (chicken pox) 
  o pertussis (whooping cough) 
  o hepatitis B 
• Occupational Therapist The possession of a tertiary degree in Occupational Therapy from a recognised 
  tertiary institution and registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of 
  Australia (AHPRA). 
• This position requires the incumbent to operate a class C motor vehicle, and an appropriate licence 
  endorsement to operate this type of vehicle is required. Proof of this endorsement must be provided before 
  commencement of duty.  
• It is requirement that all eligible clinicians obtain Authorised Mental Health Practitioner status; and all non
  eligible clinicians work towards eligibility to be an Authorised Mental Health Practitioner.
• This position may be required to travel and work across the Metro South Addiction and Mental Health 
  Services which includes Logan Hospital, Redland Hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital and various 
  community sites, including Inala.