• Allied Health
• Fixed-term Part-time (12 months, 20 hours per week)

UnitingCare Health is one of the largest not-for-profit private hospital groups in Queensland and is a service group of UnitingCare Queensland. The hospital group is a major provider of healthcare services which operates almost 1000 licensed hospital beds and employs over 4200 people.

Allied Health Metro is an established service, bringing together the Allied Health teams from The Wesley Hospital and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital into one clinical service, with a single management team.  The integration provides opportunities for innovation, efficiencies, growth in services and improved productivity. 

Allied Health Metro provides all Allied Health services (inpatient, ambulatory and outpatient) at both Hospitals.  Allied Health Metro comprises of support staff and health professionals from Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, Nursing and Psychology.

Reporting to the Head of Occupational Therapy, and based at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital, the Occupational Therapist will be responsible for: 

• Delivering high quality Occupational Therapy clinical services across a number of clinical areas in accordance with professional and ethical standards and UCH policies and procedures;
• Managing a routine caseload, seeking assistance for high acuity or complex cases and demonstrating excellent time management and organisational skills;
• Applying clinical judgment, knowledge and skills to Occupational Therapy tasks and decision making, commensurate with the required level of clinical experience;
• Contributing to the development and/or review of clinical practices, procedures and protocols using best evidence and the principles of continuous quality improvement;
• Applying up to date knowledge of the current evidence and contributing to clinical research activities which inform evidence based practice;
• Actively contributing to the Allied Health Clinical Governance Framework by undertaking quality assurance activities as directed by the head of Occupational Therapy. 

Ideally, the successful applicant will demonstrate the following criteria: 

• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy;
• Current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency or appropriate professional body (where required) ;   
• Demonstrated experience in a comparable (acute hospital or ambulatory service)  setting or equivalent;
• Demonstrated  clinical knowledge, experience and skills in Occupational Therapy;
• Demonstrated experience within hand therapy, plastics, neuro and oedema management is desireable;
• Experience in implementing evidence based clinical services;
• Sound knowledge of Workplace Health and Safety and clinical risk management;
• Sound level of computer literacy in Microsoft application. 

UnitingCare Health is committed to being a child safe, child friendly organisation for all children who come into contact with our services. It is our expectation that our employees will share in this commitment.  Therefore, employees and successful candidates in specified roles will be required to hold a valid ’Blue Card’ in line with the ’Working with Children Check’ requirements.

Criminal record checks will be conducted for all successful candidates.

Working as part of the UnitingCare Health team, our staff enjoy a values based organisation with benefits including: 

• Friendly values based environment;
• Generous salary packaging options;
• Exciting career paths in both clinical and leadership streams;
• Exceptional professional development opportunities including Post graduate leaderships programs;
• Flexible working arrangements. 

For more information regarding this opportunity please contact Stacey Johnson, Head of Occupational Therapy on 0439131716 or via email at stacey.johnson@uchealth.com.au.  

To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process and quote the following reference number – 11725.

We look forward to receiving your applications by Friday 16th December 2016.