Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Occupational Therapist Level 7 Grade 1
Remuneration: $156,798 - $156,798 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ664995
Application Close: 14 June 2026
REQ664995 - Occupational Therapy Head of Department - St George Hospital
Ready to step into a dynamic and exciting Occupational Therapy Leadership role?
Step into an exciting leadership opportunity as Head of Department - Occupational Therapy at St George Hospital. Join a high performing Allied Health Leadership Team dedicated to shaping the future of person-centred care across the organisation, while guiding a skilled and passionate Occupational Therapy department committed to excellence and delivering meaningful impact for patients every day.
The vision for the Occupational Therapy Department at St George Hospital is empowering you to live the life you want through creativity, collaboration and choice. We are a supportive and forward-thinking department dedicated to person-centred, compassionate care, and strive to provide consistent high-quality occupational therapy services across the campus.
Our department consists of 38 occupational therapists and support staff, working across a diverse range of inpatient, outpatient and community-facing services, including aged care, acute surgical and medical, oncology, trauma, neurology, rehabilitation, palliative care, lymphoedema and hand therapy.
We are passionate about developing our workforce and offer strong clinical and leadership development opportunities, a well-established student program, flexible work practices, and protected time for non clinical tasks (quality improvement, continuing professional education, and leadership development). Our team values collaboration, innovation, and a positive and supportive workplace culture.
The Role
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
This position has operational accountability for the Occupational Therapy service within St George Hospital (SGH) and reports operationally to the SGH General Manager or delegate (Allied Health Manager) and has professional accountability to the SESLHD Occupational Therapy Discipline Advisor.
The Occupational Therapy Head of Department will provide operational direction, lead, guide and manage the Occupational Therapy service across SGH and facilitate the implementation of high levels of clinical expertise in order to provide high quality care to patients/clients and their carers, consistent with NSW Ministry of Health (MoH) and South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) policies, procedures and standards. The position contributes directly to the development of policy, with consideration of the strategic context.
Benefits
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
Selection Criteria
- Evidence of extensive clinical and management experience as an Occupational Therapist.
- Recognised qualification in Occupational Therapy in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Professionals (State) Award, current registration with AHPRA (where applicable) and commitment to own ongoing professional development.
- Proven ability to provide high level of guidance, leadership and management of departmental resources and services.
- Demonstrated high-level written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to initiate, lead, complete and share quality improvement initiatives and service evaluation processes and lead ongoing quality improvement activities with other staff.
- Ability to provide leadership and direction in assisting the flexible utilisation of resources to enhance service delivery.
Need more information?
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For role related queries or questions, please contact Elise Klumpes-Grant via email at [email protected]
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email
[email protected] and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants
- An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination Against Specified Infectious Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support ([email protected]) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website.
