Mental Health Occupational Therapist, Ot | Work From Home

Are you a Mental Health Occupational Therapist? Concerned about the lack of access to this service for people in rural Australia? Want to Work from the comfort of your own home?

About Us

Umbo is a social enterprise created to solve a huge problem – the lack of speech and occupational therapy across Australia. At Umbo, we believe that despite where you live, no one should be forced to wait 18 months to access vital health care.

As a social enterprise, Umbo is committed to reinvesting 50% of its profit back into the company to reach more vulnerable communities.

About You

• Bachelor or Masters degree in occupational therapy
• Experience working as an Occupational Therapist, ideally at least 3 years or relevant prior working experience
• Knowledge and experience working with people with complex Mental Health conditions
• Provision of evidence-based assessment and treatment interventions for clients with major and complex Mental Health conditions
• Develop and implement individualised interventions following identification of treatment goals with clients
• Preparation of Psychosocial functional capacity assessments for NDIS participants
• Current Working with Children Check (renewed every 3 years) and National Police Clearance (renewed every 5 years)
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Current AHPRA registration

How the role works from a day to day perspective

• Work from 15 hours a week upwards (we would consider 10 hours as a minimum for the right candidate)
• Be paid for direct, indirect and internal time
• Appointment bookings all handled by our admin staff, invoicing is automated
• We provide both professional and clinical supervision, both one on one and in peer groups
• We pay your super, and provide logins to all of your tech platforms to do the role
• Our hourly rates range from $55 to $88 (plus super) per hour. This translates to $107,250 - $171,600 FTE per annum.

To work out the exact rates, please see: https://www.thecalculatorsite.com/finance/calculators/hourly-to-salary.php

Key benefits of this role

• Work from home anywhere in the world, including overseas
• Help people in rural communities access occupational therapy
• Join a growing team supported in a compassionate and caring manner.

We're looking for speech pathologists to deliver services online, via video link, all from the comfort of your own home. We don't need you to be overly experienced with telehealth. We need you to be as passionate about this issue as we are. We need you to want to learn, and maintain high quality services.

How to apply

Simply click 'Quick Apply' and send your resume through. We look forward to hearing from you!

For more information, please see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). https://umbo.com.au/therapist-faq/