Occupational Therapist - Senior

This position also provides clinical practice and professional supervision to less experienced Occupational Therapists to ensure the maintenance of professional clinical standards within the service, commensurate with experience.

About the role

• Within a case management model, the position delivers high quality, evidence based Occupational Therapy services to adolescents (aged 14-17 years inclusive) with severe and complex mental health disorders requiring hospital-based assessment and treatment. The role works within the multidisciplinary team and care is delivered with a focus on planning and provision of clinical care and therapeutic interventions within a recovery and trauma-informed rehabilitation framework.
• This position also provides clinical practice and professional supervision to less experienced Occupational Therapists to ensure the maintenance of professional clinical standards within the service, commensurate with experience.

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 own talent through ongoing professional development, values differences and recognises importance of teamwork in health service delivery
• Compassion – is completely consumer focussed, demonstrates self-awareness and the effects of behaviour on others, deals with or manages ambiguity and complexity, demonstrates resilience in the delivery of consumer services
• High Performance – cultivates innovation, is action oriented, drives results and supports Metro North's vision and purpose to exceed expectations of our consumers 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

In terms of technical knowledge, skills and experience and within the context of the responsibilities described above under Key Accountabilities, the ideal applicant will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

• Demonstrated experienced level of contemporary knowledge and skill in assessment and acute management of adolescent consumers with severe mental health disorders including high-level knowledge and skill in occupational therapy assessment, formulation, and intervention in an acute environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work co-operatively in a demanding complex multi-disciplinary environment and communicate effectively using well developed oral and written communication skills to enable effective interaction with consumers, carers, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated recognised experience in the identification, development and implementation of quality and service improvement, and research activities to improve consumer care.
• Demonstrated ability to provide clinical practice supervision to less experienced staff members and education to students.
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles, processes and environments that support recovery and an ability to work within Trauma- Informed and Recovery Frameworks.

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: MH548118
Close date: Monday, 11th March 2024

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

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