Occupational Therapy Team Leader

Ability Action Australia is continuing to grow across Australia!
We deliver localised expertise in over 300 locations across Australia and support thousands of NDIS participants achieve a better life! #AAA

Whether you’re an experienced leader, or you may be looking for the opportunity to step into leadership on a permanent basis, we would love to hear from you! 

This role will require you to put your exceptional clinical skills to use as you make a difference in the lives of the participants on your caseload and foster the development of others as they join the team. 

Your role will include:

• Provide mentorship, training and formal 1:1 supervision to team members
• Run monthly peer group supervision sessions
• Deliver much needed Occupational Therapy services to participants in the community
• Use clinical observations and standardised assessments, and interpret findings, to formulate treatment goals

Your team will:

• Use a combination of standardised and non-standardised assessments, curated to the participants needs to guide our clinical reasoning,
• Deliver much needed Occupational Therapy interventions to participants within the setting best matched to their goals, that could be at school, at home, work or in the community, and
• Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team of Occupational Therapists, Exercise Physiologists, Physiotherapists and Behaviour Support Practitioners.

What's in it for you?

• Benefits – Professional Development allowance, staff referral scheme, Fitness Passport… just to name a few
• Flexibility – You can select the hours and days that you attend the office + more!
• Excellent remuneration

   – Industry leading salary

  • kilometre reimbursement
  • laptop
  • smartphone
  • Performance with Purpose Reward and Recognition Program
  • salary packaging options
• Work-life balance – Combine the convenience of working from home with the social interaction of working in the community and support of office and clinic hours
• Career progression – Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and long-term goals combined with professional development opportunities with Ability Action Australia and our parent company MedHealth
• Passionate and uplifting culture – You will be part of a purpose and values driven team focused on delivering outstanding service to NDIS participants

To be considered suitable you will have:

• Current registration with AHPRA as an Occupational Therapist
• Genuine passion for working in the disability sector, including NDIS experience
• Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage a varied caseload
• Experience supervising clinicians
• Proactive attitude, motivated by improvement and the opportunity to test and learn from new ideas
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills

Click on the Apply button OR call me - Renee Sinclair - on 0429 293 *** OR email me via  *********@abilityactionaustralia.com.au 

If your resume is not quite up-to-date, you can add me on LinkedIn for a more informal conversation - https://www.linkedin.com/in/renee-sinclair-84200a243/ 

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.