Occupational Therapist
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Job Description
We are expanding our multidisciplinary team supporting NDIS participants living in the Wollongong region and would welcome an early career or experienced Occupational Therapist looking to make a meaningful and rewarding impact in their local community.
We hope to empower participants by:
- Using a strengthsbased approach to guide our assessment goals and ultimately our intervention
- We use a combination of standardised and nonstandardised assessment curated to the participants needs to guide our clinical reasoning
- Exploring and navigating complex cases engaging in 1:1 supervision as well as team and national based inservices are just some of the ways you can expect to be supported
Whats in it for you
- Benefits Professional Development allowance staff referral scheme Fitness Passport just to name a few
- Flexibility You can select the hours and days fulltime or parttime which work best for you as an individual
- Excellent remuneration Industry leading salary KMs reimbursement laptop smartphone our Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program salary packaging options
- Work life balance Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community and support of office and clinic hours
- Support You will have a clinical supervisor providing weekly support along with a dedicated team of mentors
- Career progression Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and longterm goals combined with professional development opportunities through Ability Action Australia and our parent company MedHealth
- Passionate and uplifting culture You will be part of a purpose and values driven team focused on delivering outstanding service to our NDIS participants
On a daily basis you will be:
- Managing an allocated caseload and completing therapeutic services in a timely manner
- Assessing participants emotional psychological cognitive developmental and physical level of function and capacity through clinical observations and standardised assessments
- Interpreting findings to formulate treatment goals unique to each participant
- Providing therapeutic interventions that are evidencebased and help participants get more out of life
- Providing support and advice on adaptations to the environment including home school work and residential facilities
- Recommending provision of Assistive Technology to assist participants with their functional limitations and to promote independence
- Maintaining awareness of current legislation to ensure compliance
Qualifications :
To be considered suitable you will have:
- Current registration with AHPRA as an Occupational Therapist
- Excellent written verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage a varied caseload
- Proactive attitude motivated by improvement and the opportunity to test and learn from new ideas
- Looking for a fun collaborative and supportive work environment
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- A genuine passion for working in the disability sector
Additional Information :
Click on the Apply button OR call me Benita KemptonOR email me via email
If your resume is not quite uptodate you can add me on LinkedIn for a more informal conversation ;
You are welcome here.
Our fastgrowing team of more than 3500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds people from the LGBTQI community veterans carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.
We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
