Description

The purpose of this role is to deliver senior Occupational Therapy services within the CCAWS team, providing mental health and wellbeing support to First Nations youth, their families and stakeholders.

This includes:

• Delivering high quality evidenced based Occupational Therapy clinical services to patients/consumers within a highly functioning interprofessional team.
• Contribution to the advancement of quality Occupational Therapy services and optimal patient care, through provision of service development, quality improvement, and clinical education.
• Monitoring and reporting on work practices and outcomes, including initiating, planning and evaluating relevant quality and research initiatives.
• Providing supervision and training to less experienced (HP3) clinicians, students and to Allied Health Assistants (AHA’s).

Your key responsibilities

Clinical / Technical

• Manage an allocated workload to deliver Occupational Therapy services, including assessment, intervention and evaluation within an interprofessional team in accordance with established clinical & departmental protocols, policies and procedures, utilising evidence-based practice and ethical standards and under clinical practice supervision or professional guidance of more senior staff.
• Acts as a clinical reference point with the Occupational Therapy team and responds to every-day clinical demands.
• Collaborate on and undertake the development of evidence-based clinical practices, policies and protocols within child & youth mental health services for First Nations consumers.
• Apply increasingly independent clinical judgement to Occupational Therapy complex decision making with only occasional clinical/professional supervision.
• Adapt routine clinical practice as required based on clinical evidence with minimal supervision and a high degree of independence.
• Assist in the identification, development, implementation and/or review of clinical practices, procedures and protocols in work areas using the principles of evidence based practice under the guidance of senior staff.

Requirements

How we do things is as important as what we do, therefore within the context of the responsibilities described under ‘Your key responsibilities,’ the ideal applicant will be someone who can demonstrate the following:

Clinical / Technical:
Demonstrated high level of knowledge, expertise and skill in delivering Occupational Therapy clinical services to patients within the CCAWS team.

Collaboration, Teamwork & Consumer Engagement:
Demonstrated ability to communicate and participate effectively in the Occupational Therapy and interdisciplinary teams including the ability to provide high level clinical advice to supervisors, key service managers and stakeholders and with an ability to adequately address and manage conflict

Individual and Work Unit Management:
Demonstrated ability to provide Occupational Therapy clinical services of a complex nature including rapid prioritisation, management and discharge planning of patients in a complex clinical environment.

Leadership:
Demonstrated ability to provide supervision, training and support to less experienced practitioners and students.

Service Improvement:
Demonstrated ability to initiate, plan and evaluate local service improvement initiatives. 

• 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.