Join Darling Downs Health as a Senior Occupational Therapist with the Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT) in Toowoomba and help people achieve meaningful recovery and improved quality of life through community-based mental health care. This is an chance to combine advanced clinical practice, leadership, and service improvement while working alongside a multidisciplinary team that values connection and positive outcomes.

Job details Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Flexible part-time
Occupational group Health - Mental Health Clinicians
Classification HP4
Workplace Location Toowoomba region
Job ad reference QLD/DD2609692526
Closing date 01-Oct-2026
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Salary Other
Job duration 12 months
Contact person Glenn Healing
Contact details (07) 4616 5325
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What your day could look like

As a Senior Occupational Therapist within the Mobile Intensive Rehabilitation Team (MIRT), you'll play an important role in supporting adults experiencing mental health challenges to build independence, wellbeing, and participation in everyday life. From delivering advanced clinical care to driving recovery-focused outcomes in the community, you'll work with a collaborative multidisciplinary team dedicated to helping people achieve meaningful and lasting change.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

- Delivering high-quality assessments, interventions, and recovery-focused support that help people achieve their goals and improve daily functioning.
- Partnering with consumers, families, colleagues, and community services to create coordinated care pathways and positive long-term outcomes.
- Leading quality improvement initiatives that strengthen clinical practice, service effectiveness, and consumer experience.
- Providing guidance, mentoring, and professional support to colleagues while contributing to a culture of learning and excellence.

Let's talk about you!

You're an experienced occupational therapist who combines clinical expertise with genuine compassion. You build trust quickly, lead with integrity, and remain focused on helping people achieve meaningful change. You enjoy working with complexity, supporting others to grow, and finding innovative ways to improve care.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

- Current registration as an Occupational Therapist and eligibility to practise in Australia.
- Strong experience delivering mental health occupational therapy services for adults with complex needs.




- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead service improvement initiatives, contribute to clinical excellence, and support the development of others.

You'll stand out from the crowd if you have postgraduate study in mental health and/or experience leading practice improvement or service development projects.

Above all, you'll bring the values we live by at Darling Downs Health: Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation, and Courage.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

- Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
- Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
- Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
- Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
- Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

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Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.





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