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Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Part time
Organisation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 69679
Senior Occupational Therapist
Mental Health Key Clinician Homeless Team
Part-Time OT position - Working 72 hours per fortnight
Based in Melbourne CBD - Mental Health Homeless Team
Fantastic opportunity to provide Community Assertive Outreach services within the Inner West Area Mental Health Service (IWAMHS)
Life With Us:
Our Community team provides care to consumers living in the CBD and Inner Melbourne
We apply an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) model of care, which is characterized by lower caseloads, community-based treatment, a team based approach and high intensity of care.
As an experienced Occupational Therapist, you will provide a strengths-based and personalised model of care to increase consumers well-being and functioning.
Your new role:
Provide support, leadership, oversight from and Occupational Therapy perspective and contribute to the multi-disciplinary team
Support and guide our Entry Level Program Occupational Therapist in the team
Develop and apply Occupational Therapy interventions suitable for our consumer cohort that will assist with their recovery and apply to personalising NDIS supports and thorough assessments
Scope for involvement in facilitating group program interventions relevant to building daily function, capacity and wellbeing through increased levels of personalised participation
About you:
Interested in working with homeless consumers directly in the community via assertive outreach
Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
Hold current registration with AHPRA
Demonstrated expertise relating to Occupational Therapy specific work
Benefit of working with Us
Career progression opportunities to suit your professional development goals
Salary packaging, well serviced by public transport
Rotating roster including weekend and after hours work available
The RMH is proud to be a workplace that champions diversity, inclusion and equality for our staff and our community. Our goal is for our people to feel safe, included and supported so that they can be at their best every single day. We encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies, and will consider adjustments to support such applications.
Interested?
If you are looking for a challenging role and can demonstrate the above capabilities, connect with us via the details below.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children Check. All RMH employees are required to provide evidence of an immunisation assessment including evidence of vaccination against COVID-19 (3 doses) prior to commencement. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health’s Mandatory Vaccination Orders for COVID-19.
Please note: recruitment is ongoing, with interviews commencing as soon as suitable applications are received. Advertising may cease prior to the closing date.
