Description:
Take your career to the next level as an Advanced Occupational Therapist – Rural Hand Therapy with Darling Downs Health! In this specialist role, you’ll provide expert assessment and treatment, mentor and upskill rural generalist therapists, and lead service improvements in hand therapy. If you’re passionate about clinical leadership, innovation, and making a real impact in rural healthcare, we’d love to hear from you!
What your day will look like….
You'll be at the forefront of delivering advanced hand therapy care, assessing and treating complex cases while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Your expertise will guide and support rural therapists, ensuring high-quality care reaches patients across the region. Beyond hands-on therapy, you'll provide clinical leadership, contribute to service improvements, and play a key role in education and mentoring. Every day brings variety, challenge, and the opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of patients and professionals alike.
Let's talk about you!
Our ideal candidate will be someone who can inspire the following:
- Compassion – you will engage with others and demonstrate empathy, care, kindness, support and understanding.
- Integrity – you are open, honest, approachable, equitable and consistent in everything we do.
- Dignity – you treat others with respect, display reasonableness and take pride in what you do.
- Innovation – you embrace change and strive to know more, learn more and do better.
- Courage – you respectfully question for clarity and have the strength and confidence to Speak Up.
Why Us?
Darling Downs Health's (DDH) region is a large geographic area covering approximately 90,000 square kilometres across Southeast Queensland. We are one of the largest employers in the region, with a diverse team of more than 6,000 staff. We deliver frontline health services across our 30 facilities and care for nearly 300,000 people, support the birth of almost 3,000 babies and perform more than 15,000 breastscreens.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas throughout our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work culture that values and respects diversity in the workplace. We also believe that all our employees should be treated fairly, with dignity and with respect. DDH is committed to providing a safe, secure, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
Benefits!
- Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
- A diverse work culture
- Career development
- Professional development opportunities
- Education opportunities, Study and Research
- Paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Discounted Private Health Insurance
- Fitness Passport
- Work-Life Balance, Variety and Flexibility
- Generous Salary Sacrificing
Next step….
Applicants are to apply online and supply the requested documentation.
Find out more about us!
Work with Us | Rural (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/104741/5550-workforusrural.pdf )
Work with Us | Toowoomba (PDF) ( https://www.darlingdowns.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0024/104739/Team-Darling-Downs-Toowoomba.pdf )
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