Join Darling Downs Health in Toowoomba as a Senior Occupational Therapist (Cancer Care) and make a meaningful difference in the lives of people navigating cancer treatment and recovery. Use your advanced clinical skills to deliver person-centred care, contribute to service innovation, and work alongside a passionate multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving patient outcomes across the region.

What Your Day Could Look Like

As a Senior Occupational Therapist (Cancer Care), you'll help people maintain independence, wellbeing and quality of life throughout their cancer journey. Delivering advanced clinical care, driving service improvements and supporting colleagues, you'll work with a multidisciplinary team to achieve outcomes that matter for patients, families and the wider community.

Every Day, You'll Contribute By

- Delivering high-quality, evidence-informed care that helps patients achieve meaningful goals and navigate complex health challenges.
- Partnering with patients, families and healthcare teams to create coordinated care experiences and improve outcomes.
- Leading quality improvement initiatives that strengthen services and enhance the patient journey.
- Sharing expertise through mentoring, education and clinical leadership that supports team growth.

Let's talk about you! You're someone who combines clinical expertise with compassion, confidence and a commitment to improving lives. You thrive in complex environments, build trusted relationships, and bring integrity and dignity to every interaction. Whether supporting a patient through a life-changing diagnosis, guiding colleagues, or driving service improvements, you'll take pride in creating positive experiences and outcomes.



You embrace innovation, show courage when leading change, and value working with others committed to exceptional care.

Here's What Will Help You Thrive In This Role

- Current registration as an Occupational Therapist with AHPRA.
- Extensive experience delivering occupational therapy services within complex clinical settings, ideally including cancer care.
- Robust communication and relationship-building skills with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience contributing to service improvement, clinical education, supervision or mentoring activities.

You'll stand out if you have experience in oncology services and/or additional training or professional development in cancer care, rehabilitation or leadership. Most importantly, we're looking for someone passionate about improving quality of life, committed to person-centred care, and ready to make a lasting difference through 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 qualified, 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

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.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

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 (Cancer Care) (Toowoomba)
🏢 Darling Downs Hospital & Health Service
📍 Toowoomba