Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service - Toowoomba QLD

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 qualified 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 thesouth,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.

Whetheryou'rea doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member,or administrator,you'llsee your impact firsthand. Here,you'llfind opportunities that simplydon'texist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, andembraceresponsibilities that would take years toaccessin larger health services.

Darling Downs Healthis 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.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

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.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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📌 Occupational Therapist - Senior (Toowoomba)
🏢 Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service
📍 Toowoomba