Apply now Job no: 494546
Work type: Full - Time (Auto), Part - Time (Auto)
Location: Western Melbourne
Categories: Occupational Therapist
Location: West (Sunshine, Newport)
Vacancy Type: Permanent - Part-time/Full-Time
Job reference: 494546
Salary Range: $82,894.01 - $101,506.63 (depends on experience) + superannuation + salary packaging
Are you an established Occupational Therapist seeking a fulfilling, flexible new role? Could you provide exceptional support for Yooralla’s clients to achieve their goals? Do you like working as part of a team and do you share our values? Then, why not join the passionate Yooralla Allied Health team?
A therapy role with Yooralla offers:
* The opportunity to support adults with disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.
* Excellent formal and informal professional development opportunities – including opportunities to develop clinical, administration and management/leadership skills; a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave.
* Communities of practice to support professional networking and development – you’ll be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists, with structured ongoing clinical supervision from Senior Clinicians.
* A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). Our allied health positions can be undertaken full-time or part-time, and we will support you to balance your lifestyle goals with providing excellent care to our clients.
* Administration and logistical support - including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing.
* A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer’s leave and 12 week’s primary carer parental leave).
About the role
Yooralla has a vacancy in the West (Sunshine, Newport) for a passionate, positive relationship builder, with experience working with a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model to join our team as a permanent full-time or part-time Occupational Therapist. This fulfilling role will provide best practice, evidence-based occupational therapy services across the scope of practice to adults and young people with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.
Your working days may involve:
* delivering therapy in people's homes, educational settings or in the community; aimed at maximising a person’s functional skills and participation as well as promoting physical health and wellbeing
* working part of an multidisciplinary team including Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists and
* providing indirect customer service/family coordination to support client goals.
About You
You’ll be an established and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, good interpersonal skills, and ability to engage people with a disability, motivate them and build their capability. You’ll have an ability to work in partnership with adults and young people with a disability to set and achieve goals, and to work collaboratively with the person’s supports, including their families.
* experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model
* the ability to build positive relationships with clients and their families
* a willingness to improve on your clinical practice – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing clinical skills in areas you’re not familiar with
* care for the work you do and for the people you work with
* competency in a variety of IT platforms, particularly client management systems
* good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
* AHPRA Registration (Occupational Therapy), and
* an Australian driver’s licence and own vehicle, and a willingness to travel across Western Melbourne region, as required
Appointment is subject to pre-employment checks including the NDIS Worker Screening Check, Inherent Position Requirements Employee Declaration, Working with Children’s Check, Reference Checks, AHPRA Registration Check, etc.
Sound like you? Apply Now!
Advertised: 04 Jun 2024 AUS Eastern Standard Time
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