Job Description
Agency Department of Health Work unit Occupational Therapy Department,
Alice Springs Hospital
Job title Senior Occupational Therapist Designation Professional 3
Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 16/06/2028
Salary $114,199 - $127,898 Location Alice Springs
Position number 39871 RTF 353088 Closing 20/08/2026
Contact Officer Claire Allan on 08 8951 7777 or [email protected]
About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/
Apply online: https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=353088
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY
QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with
disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss
this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the
OCPE website.
Primary objective
Ensure delivery of high quality, culturally appropriate and effective Occupational Therapy services whilst providing clinical leadership and
supervision to occupational therapists and allied health assistants at Alice Springs Hospital.
Context statement
NT Health provides integrated allied health services in a variety of service settings including acute and sub-acute care, primary health care,
aged care and mental health. We have an opportunity for a Senior Occupational Therapist to join our team at Alice Springs Hospital. This
is an exciting role involving a small acute caseload, service planning in the rehabilitation space and/or hand therapy services while providing
supervision to occupational therapists. For an experienced hand therapist, it is an opportunity to drive the outpatient hand therapy service
treating primarily a varied trauma caseload.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide timely, clinically and culturally appropriate Occupational Therapy services within a multidisciplinary framework.
2. Provide expert advice on program and clinical issues within Occupational Therapy.
3. Provide leadership, supervision, mentorship and education to staff and students.
4. Independently organise and manage a high volume complex workload within a dynamic and evolving work environment to ensure
timelines and health outcomes are met.
5. Initiate, implement and complete research, continuous quality improvement and service development activities at a local or regional
level to ensure delivery of contemporary Occupational Therapy Services.
6. Lead and/or monitor the achievement of work unit goals and key performance indicators
7. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in
order to ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.
8. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Relevant qualifications in Occupational Therapy and current AHPRA registration.
2. Extensive post graduate experience in providing contemporary, high level clinical Occupational Therapy services to patients and
families/carers.
3. Demonstrated awareness and understanding of Aboriginal culture and proven experience in working effectively with patients and
families/carers of diverse cultural and social backgrounds.
4. Proven high level communication and interpersonal skills, including well developed negotiation and conflict management skills, with
significant experience working in a team environment to achieve positive health outcomes.
5. Extensive experience in clinical supervision of students and staff and a commitment to professional development.
6. Proven ability to initiate, implement and complete continuous quality improvement and service development activities.
7. Proven ability to efficiently and effectively organise and manage a high volume complex workload.
8. Demonstrated high level leadership skills with capacity to provide leadership in a team environment.
9. NT drivers’ licence or ability to obtain.
Desirable
1. Post-graduate qualifications in clinical education, leadership/management, or a speciality practice (rehabilitation or hand therapy)
Further information
Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and
criminal history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. For
immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact with blood or
body substances), check with contact person for requirements.
