AddressEmpower consumer independence through innovative living skill development in a unique bushland and waterfront campus environment, offering a grassroots opportunity to implement core OT interventions.
Join our dynamic team as an Occupational Therapist specializing in complex mental health cases, including severe and enduring Mental Illness accompanied by co-morbidities such as Substance Use, Intellectual Disability, aging issues, Metabolic Syndrome, Forensic, and Involuntary legal status. These individuals often face challenges with communication, understanding mental illness and symptoms, mobility, motivation, and cognition. Your role will primarily focus on a designated caseload within our Comprehensive Rehabilitation Unit (CRU), with opportunities to extend services to other units on campus, ensuring continuity of care. You will assess and develop skills with consumers transitioning from higher support settings to our Cottages, emphasizing discharge planning into the community and conducting interventions individually and in group settings. Additionally, you'll provide detailed Functional Reports, collaborate with key stakeholders including NDIS/HASI Plus for discharge planning, and play a crucial role in reducing consumer length of stay by delivering Occupational Therapy services within the Statewide Pathways to Community Living Initiative framework, collaborating with the Community Transition Team.
- As an employee of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Service, this role is primarily based in the Clinical Rehabilitation Unit (CRU). CRU provides inpatient rehabilitation in the format of 9 “Cottages” each with 5-6 consumers.
- You will be in a team of OTs providing functional assessment and interventions in the Cottages as part of the Multidisciplinary Team of the unit. You will also be part of the Allied Health co-located hub; there is a great collaborative culture of sharing caseloads, ideas and resources for fantastic team spirit and consumer focus. Collaborating with the CRU Nursing team is essential to providing quality care in the unit.
- You will have opportunities to facilitate interventions that are Cottage based, campus based and community based with a focus on both Rehabilitation and Recovery.
How you will be supported:
- You will be line managed by the OT Team Leader who will engage in regular leader rounding, PDR process as well as regular clinical and program planning support.
- Morisset Hospital has a thorough In-service and training program available to all staff for learning and development, this includes opportunities for staff to facilitate in-services in their area of expertise or share external training they have completed
- The HNEMH OT Network has a strong team of senior staff across the different clinical streams and exchange skills and support during scheduled network meetings throughout the year all under the leadership of the HNE Head of Discipline for Occupational Therapy who provides support to each team. The HNEMH OT Network has a strong culture of clinical supervision in which you will be supported to participate.
Benefits:
- Work in a unique bushland and waterfront campus environment.
- Inservice and training program available
- Four weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part-time employees)
Requirements and additional information:
- Occupational Therapist with current Authority to Practice with AHPRA
- An eligibility list will be created for future temporary full or part time vacancies.
- This position is full time; however, job share and/or part time arrangements will be considered.
- We are unable to accommodate visa sponsorship for applicants requiring a visa for this position.
Need more information?
- Find out more about applying for this position
- For role related queries or questions contact Emily Price on ***********@health.nsw.gov.au
Information for Applicants:
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This is a Category A position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive PD2023_022: Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for Category A positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
To be eligible for employment in this position you must be an Australian Citizen, or permanent resident of Australia, or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand Passport, or hold an appropriate visa that allows you to live and work in Australia. Employment of a temporary visa holder will only be offered in line with the conditions and expiry date of your visa.
HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of benefits such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
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