Occupational Therapist - Community Health

Occupational Therapist (Adults)
Grade 2 - Adult Allied Health Team

• Box Hill and Eltham Locations
• Salary Packaging up to $15,900 p/y
• 0.5 FTE Fixed Term Contract

Highly supportive inter-and multidisciplinary team environment, including opportunities for joint consultations to promote holistic and collaborative client care.

Who are we?
healthAbility, as the name suggests, plays a unique and valuable role in the health system. We work to address the root causes of vulnerability, prevent disease and promote lifelong health outcomes, empowering people in our community to live their best life.

Our role is also supporting people to self-manage long-term health conditions, such as diabetes and mental health challenges, with multidisciplinary teams delivering community-based programs in a comfortable setting. We also support people, including older people and people with disability, to stay living at home longer and to live well in their community. 

Our broad range of primary health services, care management and in home and community support services can be tailored to an individual’s needs and with major hubs in Box Hill and Eltham, these services can be delivered locally, in the Eastern and North Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. 

Why work with us?
Although our clients are at the heart of what we do and we strive to positively impact our communities and those who need it most, the wellbeing of our employees is just as important. 

When joining healthAbility’s supportive, kind, caring and ethical culture, you are welcomed by multi-disciplinary teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of clients and communities, from prevention through to specialist care, and passionate about continually learning and building on their areas of expertise. We embrace this passion and are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative and connected. 

healthability is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We promote a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value unique contributions of all people. This means we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+ and from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this job, with age being no barrier.

The Opportunity
We are looking for an Occupational Therapists to join our supportive and professional Adult Allied Health multidisciplinary team in a Part Time Fixed Term Contract capacity.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to;

• Provision of quality Occupational Therapy services to individuals and their support networks; including assessment (initial and ongoing as required), intervention, individual and group-based programs, education and support services.
• In collaboration with the Allied Health Team- identify, organize, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based services.
• Participation in continuous improvement and planning processes.
• Liaison with key stakeholders and local service providers and participate in appropriate networks as required.
• Maintenance of client records in accordance with professional and organisational protocols.
• Participation in regular interdisciplinary team meetings, case reviews and case presentations
• Completion of timely and accurate collection of appropriate data to meet relevant reporting requirements and to ensure compliance with privacy legislation

Skills & Experience

• Bachelor of Occupational Therapy or equivalent.
• Registration with Australian Health Practitioners’ Regulation Authority (AHPRA)
• Minimum green registration with the State-Wide Equipment Program (SWEP)
• Background and interest in Dementia (including young onset Dementia) highly desirable

If you want to work with great people - we'd love to hear from you.

To view the position description, please go to https://healthability.org.au/about-us/careers/ click on “current vacancies”. Any enquiries can be made to Lauren Fielding, Occupational Therapy Team Leader at ***************@healthability.org.au

If you meet the criteria and are looking for a secure role with purpose with our dynamic and growing organisation, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply here by submitting a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria with your CV.  Thank you for your time and interest and please note, only shortlisted applicants will be contacted directly. No agencies please.

Employment with healthAbility is conditional upon being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or medically exempt and providing satisfactory evidence of the same.

See the video below to hear from our employees why this opportunity is much more than a job and how healthAbility offers careers with meaning.