About the role

It is the purpose of this role to provide:

• Day to day operational and professional leadership and management for the Occupational Therapy Surgery team at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) delivering clinical services including: provision of clinical practice supervision for clinical assistants and pre entry / graduate and developing clinicians, responsibility for performance management, leadership of continuous service improvement and research activities, and provision of strategic planning for the implementation of HHS and State wide priorities.
• Advanced level occupational therapy clinical services to achieve excellence in patient care, education, and research.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

• Respect – demonstrates interpersonal savvy, manages conflict appropriately, communicates effectively and balances the needs of all stakeholders with utmost respect to all people at all times.
• Teamwork – collaborates effectively, develops talent, values difference and builds effective teams to bring about best use of resources to deliver healthcare services
• Compassion – is patient / client focussed, demonstrates self-awareness and the effects of behaviour on others, deals with or manages ambiguity and complexity, demonstrates resilience in the delivery of patient services or support in the delivery of services to patients.
• High Performance – cultivates innovation, is action oriented, drives results and supports Metro North Health's vision and purpose to exceed expectations of our patients and stakeholders.
• Integrity – demonstrates sound decision quality, ensures accountability, demonstrates courage in the face of adversity and works effectively / manages complexity to ensure work output and decisions are ethical and invariably of a high standard.

Knowledge, skills and expertise

• Clinical Expertise: Demonstrated advanced level knowledge, expertise and skill in contemporary clinical practice standards for occupational therapy services relevant to Surgery, Orthopaedics, Plastics and Hand Therapy in an acute, tertiary referral hospital.
• Communication/Team participation: Demonstrated application of a high standard of communication skills and advice to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams, with consumers and with other internal and external agencies in order to provide high quality, culturally responsive services.
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to provide operational, clinical, and strategic leadership to a team of Occupational Therapists and Clinical Assistants, students and trainees.
• Quality improvement: Demonstrated ability to lead innovative quality/service improvement and research projects of significant scope and clinical importance to Occupational Therapy and/or Queensland Health

Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health

• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging ( https://www.health.qld.gov.au/employment/conditions/salary/sacrifice )
• Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
• 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance

Job ad reference number: RBH560597
Close date: Thursday, 9th May 2024

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED