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Salary26390 - 2 - Currently taking applications
Located in Churchill, both part time and full time options available
- Join a not-for-profit health care provider who is getting back to what matters.
- Excellent opportunity to advance your career in a community health setting.
- Work with some of the most vulnerable clients in the Latrobe Valley and have an impact on their health outcomes.
We are looking for highly experienced Occupational Therapists who are looking to make a difference in the lives of people in the Latrobe Valley. Someone who is looking to advance their career in a senior clinical role working in a transdisciplinary paediatric service, driving the quality of service provision.
As a Senior Occupational Therapist in the paediatric and youth hub, you will work in one or more of the programs we deliver including Children's Service, School Readiness and Speech Pathology in Schools. You will work with children their families and educators to improve their motor, sensory processing and social and emotional wellbeing skills. You will be integral in developing Grade 1 and Grade 2 Occupational Therapists, Allied Health Assistants and students in the clinical environment. The Occupational Therapist works as part of the multidisciplinary team with Speech Pathologists, Social and Emotional Wellbeing Practitioners, Allied Health Assistants and Nurses to provide evidence based collaborative interventions to children.
To be successful, you will require;
- Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy.
- AHPRA Registration.
- Experience as a Grade 2 Occupational Therapist.
- Minimum seven years post graduate experience.
- Experience in paediatric occupational therapy.
- Experience working in a community health setting.
- Valid Victorian drivers licence.
- Eligible to be a Medicare Benefit Scheme provider.
- Latrobe Community Health Service complies with infectious disease control and immunisation requirements under legislation. This position is classified, as a Health Care Worker B. Evidence of immunisation history must be provided prior to confirmed appointment.
- Employee Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain prior to commencement)
At Latrobe Community Health Service we want to help you get back to what matters. To see the full position description and to apply, click the apply button now!
We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, we will consider all qualified applicants for employment. We are partnered with Job Access and pledged to Soldier On. We are a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and identities, LGBTIQ+ people, people with a lived experience of disability and service personnel and their families to name a few. We will make reasonable adjustments when required. We are a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be required to obtain a satisfactory security clearance and an Employee Working with Children Check before we can make any offer of employment.
