Occupational Therapist - Toowoomba

About the role:

This is a great opportunity to join the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba (SVPHT) as an Occupational Therapist – Level 2 on a permanent full-time basis (38 hours per week).

In this role you’ll play a pivotal part in providing high-quality, patient centred care across a diverse inpatient caseload. You’ll be working a team of highly skilled clinicians to support our patients on the journey through their assessment, rehabilitation and right through to their hospital discharge.

Things that work for you: 

• Retail and Travel Discounts; Blue light card a discounted service for frontline workers (available for over 350 brands inc. Big W, The Good Guys, Samsung), JB Hi-Fi corporate benefits, airport lounge membership discounts
• Financial Wellbeing: Salary packaging options up to $15,990, novated leasing, plus an optional Meals and Entertainment card up to $2,650 per annum, competitive hourly rates and paid approved overtime
• Health and Wellbeing: Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families, fitness passport, free uniforms & annual flu vaccination, ability to purchase annual leave, discounted hospital admissions at any St Vincent’s Private Hospital, discounted private health insurance through Bupa or Medibank
• Join Australia’s largest not-for-profit provider of health and aged care services

Things that work for us:

• A current registration with AHPRA
• Relevant qualifications within the Allied Health sector
• Experience working within a private hospital or acute facility, desirable but not essential
• Strong commitment and professionalism to patient centred care
• Demonstrated ability to perform tasks and duties with a high degree of independence, including caseload management
• Demonstrated sound understanding of the health care continuum
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills

About our hospital:

St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba is the largest acute private hospital on the Darling Downs. We are a 197-bed facility with highly experienced and skilled staff that work as a team to deliver the highest standard of healthcare to all our patients. Our occupational therapy team works with a broader multidisciplinary allied health team across the following areas: general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, rehabilitation, cancer care intensive care, palliative care, maternity and paediatrics, cardiac and neurology.

Mission and Values:

As both a provider of care and as an employer, St Vincent’s aspires to create an environment that is truly inclusive for all people, always. St Vincent’s is constantly striving for inclusivity and to create and cherish a diverse place of care and work.

Part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit Mission and Values - Reconciliation

Respectfully, no agencies please.  APPLY NOW! to join our hospital team that is committed to exceptional patient care, or if you have any questions, please reach out please reach out to Allied Health Manager, Wendy Callcott on 0436 622 270 or email wendy.callcott@svha.org.au

Pre-Employment Checks:

Employment is subject to the successful completion of all pre-employment checks which may include a Working with Children check (i.e. a Blue Card).  For further information about St Vincent’s commitment to Child Safety, visit St Vincent's Code of Conduct.

St Vincent's has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings and evidence may be required for proof of immunity.