Occupational Therapist

• Full time (1 FTE) Fixed Term for 16 months (March 2024 - June 2025)
• Grade 2 (Year 1 - 4) between $86,699 - $99,700 per annun. Classification commensurate with skills and experience as per Victorian Stand-Alone Community Health Centres Allied Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
• Enjoy a tax break with generous salary packaging
• Location Western Suburbs, Melbourne
• Regular clinical supervision provided
• Work within a large and supportive Allied Health team with realistic clinical expectations
• Internal networking and professional development program

IPC Health is proud to ‘make a difference’ to the health outcomes of our clients across Brimbank, Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay. We are a not-for-profit community health service who deliver innovative, quality services in a client-centred, collaborative and coordinated manner.

Our recent awards recognise our outstanding initiatives and programs that create a culture of creativity in the workforce and harnesses innovation to achieve outstanding client outcomes.  99% of employees partaking in the 2022 People Matter Survey said they ‘felt they can make a worthwhile contribution at work’.

We have an opportunity for You!

We invite you to be a part of the passionate, creative, and innovative team at IPC Heath. We are looking to recruit a Grade 2 Occupational Therapist to provide services in our Allied Health Service.

We provide occupational therapy to clients across the life span, with adults making up most of your caseload. Occupational Therapists are part of a broader multi-disciplinary team comprising of Dieticians, Exercise Physiologists, Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Speech Pathologists and Allied Health Assistants. There are opportunities to work collaboratively to provide assessment, intervention and referral services. Service provision embodies client-centred care within a social model of health. Services are mainly outreach appointments to clients in their homes.

You will make a difference by

• Working collaboratively with the Occupational therapy (OT) teams to plan service delivery within services across the Wyndham, Brimbank and Hobsons Bay communities.
• Completing assessments at the client’s home and working with them towards their functional goals.
• Providing interventions including assistive technology and home modification prescription, and delivering education to our clients, their families, and their carers, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Being involved in group based multi-disciplinary interventions such as falls prevention, social connectedness and carer support
• Reflecting, evaluating, and modifying services to enhance client and service outcomes
• Providing supervision to grade 1 Occupational Therapists, allied health assistants and occupational therapy students.

To succeed, you will need:

• Bachelor or post-graduate degree (Grade 2) in Occupational Therapy.
• Minimum 1-2 years’ experience working in community-based Occupational Therapy
• Experience or interest in working in assistive technology and home modification assessment and prescription
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team to develop and implement evidence-based programs that meet the needs of our client base
• Strong commitment to teamwork and willingness to learn, be supported by colleagues and senior clinicians.
• Strong communication, networking, and interpersonal skills. An ability to actively engage clients and their nominated supports in service provision.
• Current and valid Victorian Working with Children’s Check, driver’s licence and AHPRA registration.

What next?

Read the relevant program success profile for Allied Health Professional at the following link: IPC Health Careers

To find out more about the role, please contact Melita Harding, Senior Allied Health Manager on 0409 818 ***

Submit your resume, cover letter and a document addressing the ‘to succeed’ criteria found on the success profile

Applications open until role is filled

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health. We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other. We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements. We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email *******@ipchealth.com.au with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.