Research Allied Health Clinician

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

• Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50

• Be part of a clinical research project where your work genuinely makes an impact

• Plan for your future with a generous 17% superannuation allowance

• Based at our St Lucia campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times and purchased leave

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• On campus childcare options

• Cheap parking (from just $5.75 a day)

About This Opportunity 

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Research Allied Health Clinician, with a relevant background in occupational therapy, audiology, optometry, psychology, nursing, social work, or a related profession, to join our world-class School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and support our Centre for Hearing Research (CHEAR). CHEAR is a coalition of leading researchers across disciplines including audiology, speech pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and health economics with an interest in prevention, identification and management of hearing loss across the lifespan.

Reporting to Dr Melinda Toomey and Professor Piers Dawes, this role is critical to ensuring the delivery of high-quality clinical research outcomes to evaluate an intervention to help older people with hearing and/or vision difficulties. In this role, you will provide clinical research support by delivering a ‘sensory support intervention’ in people’s homes who are receiving aged care services as part of a research conducted in partnership with Queensland aged care providers.

This position is administratively based at our St Lucia campus but will require travel within the Brisbane metropolitan area.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Undertake delivery of a research intervention which requires the ability to assess the participants’ functional hearing and vision needs, formulate therapy goals in a collaborative manner and plan interventions to address these goals following the research intervention protocol.

• Maintain a high standard of administrative, communication and consultative skills to work independently and effectively with other research team members, research participants, and multi-disciplinary health service staff.

• Adhere to Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and any other regulatory guidelines and requirements including adverse events and serious adverse event reporting. 

• Maintain a high standard of assessment and records including review and scoring of data, data entry, and analysis for reporting on research outcomes.

• Provide clinical advice to the research team regarding service delivery, improvement opportunities and research service enhancement.

• Provide clinical research support to enhance skills, knowledge, confidence and build research capacity and ensure the maintenance of professional standards in data collection.

This is a full-time, fixed-term position through to 1 November 2025 at HEW level 7.

At HEW level 7, the full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $96,649 - $105,244, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $113,080 - $123,136 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases – at least once a year.

About You  

• Completion of a tertiary qualification in a relevant allied health discipline with at least three (3) years subsequent relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training.

• Clinical interest and experience in working with older adults.  

• The ability to apply high level clinical knowledge and skills to deliver the sensory support intervention (e.g. carrying out hearing/vision screening, arranging audiology/optometry referrals, supporting hearing aid use, establishing patient-centred goals for hearing/vision rehabilitation).

• Demonstrated high level interpersonal skills to develop strong working relationships, deal with any clinical research issues sensitively and assertively and the ability to interact with a diverse range of colleagues, research participants and stakeholders.

• A high level of computer literacy including the Microsoft Office Suite.

• Demonstrated excellent administrative and organisational skills, including the ability to set priorities, manage time, plan work to meet deadlines and work effectively under pressure.

• A demonstrated understanding of confidentiality, privacy and information handling.

• Prior experience with clinical research would be advantageous. 

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Mandatory Immunisations: It is a condition of employment for this role that you will be required to provide evidence of immunisation against certain vaccine preventable diseases.

• Driver’s Licence and vehicle access: This position will require regular travel across the Brisbane metro area to deliver the intervention in patients’ homes. Therefore, suitable candidates will hold a current driver’s licence and be able to provide their own transport. 

 
Questions? 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Professor Piers Dawes, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, at [email protected] .

For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line. 
 

Want to Apply? 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected]  

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Monday 1 April 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number: R-35698).