Inpatient Occupational Therapy Manager | Full-time Permanent

Australian Capital Territory; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance up to $12K

Job summary

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is seeking an Inpatient Occupational Therapy Manager to lead an inpatient team delivering rehabilitation and subacute care across Canberra Hospital. The role focuses on strategic and operational leadership, clinical governance, and advancing occupational therapy practice within a dynamic health system.

You will oversee professional development, supervision, and quality improvement while influencing service planning and innovation.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership of an inpatient OT team.
• Strategic and operational leadership with governance oversight.

Responsibilities

• Lead an inpatient OT team delivering rehabilitation and subacute care.
• Oversee professional development, supervision and quality improvement initiatives.
• Drive service planning, innovation and patient-centred care across inpatient and community settings.

Job description

Inpatient Occupational Therapy Manager
Full-time Permanent

• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• Up to $12K reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

Community Health and Integrated Care (CHIC) is at the forefront of delivering integrated healthcare across Canberra, bringing together community, post-acute and subacute services to support people at every stage of their health journey. As Occupational Therapy Manager, you will lead a highly skilled inpatient team delivering rehabilitation and subacute care across the University of Canberra Hospital and Canberra Hospital. Working within a diverse clinical environment, you will help shape services that improve outcomes for people with neurological, orthopaedic, complex medical and age-related conditions.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced occupational therapist and leader to influence service delivery, workforce capability and clinical excellence. You will provide strategic and operational leadership to a dynamic team of occupational therapists and allied health assistants, oversee professional development and supervision, drive clinical governance activities, and contribute to service planning, innovation, research and quality improvement initiatives. As a valued member of the CHIC Allied Health leadership team, you will play a key role in strengthening patient-centred care across inpatient and community settings.

We are seeking a collaborative and forward-thinking professional with exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills. The successful applicant will bring strong organisational ability, sound clinical judgement, a solutions-focused mindset and the confidence to lead change in a complex healthcare environment. If you are passionate about developing high-performing teams, advancing occupational therapy practice and delivering meaningful outcomes for consumers, this role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact across Canberra's health system.

Applicants should note that a Joint Selection Committee (JSC) established in accordance with the enterprise agreement provisions will assess all applications for this position.

Decisions based on the advice of a JSC established under clause B4 of the common core enterprise agreement are non-appealable (clause K1.4).

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community-based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal.