Job title: Occupational Therapist - Private Practice/Community - Tasmania
Working Hours: FT/PT
Salary: A generous base salary + super + travel allowance + PD allowance
Location: Hobart
Roles & Responsibilities:
Our client is one of Australia's leading Allied Health Companies. With studios' across Australia, they are able to provide superior service and treatment options with full multi-disciplinary teams.
They are looking for Occupational Therapists to handle a vast variety of patient conditions and patient streams. With a strong NDIS focus, this will be a challenging and rewarding role for the right person, expanding their knowledge and skill set in their area of interest.
As an Occupational Therapist you will be responsible for:
1. The paediatric role involves providing NDIS & Disability assessments and intervention and therapies, both in a clinic and a community/ home setting. You will provide education and make recommendations to parents, carers, educators etc, and provide written reports
2. The adult client-based role involves providing functional needs and capacity and wellbeing assessments, intervention and written reports. You will develop treatment plans, set goals and make recommendations, including home modifications. This role will also involve seeing clients in a clinic and community/home setting
3. Provide therapy to clients in their home environment or local community
4. Observing clients perform their daily tasks in a community setting
5. Working with clients to develop a suitable and realistic treatment plan
6. Skill building, housing modifications, report writing, and many other diverse cases to use all your OT skills
7. Provide education and recommendations to clients and carers
8. Display patience and able to effectively communicate with clients and build rapport
9. New graduates can also apply
Benefits:
10. A generous base salary + Travelling Allowance + Superannuation
11. Flexible working hours
12. Great work-life balance
13. Relocation Assistance
14. Dynamic, positive work environment in a supportive, passionate, committed and professional company
15. Support and mentoring from OT Manager
16. Support and expertise of a much larger Allied Health Company behind you
17. Annual professional development fund to access external professional development opportunities, in addition to regular internal CPD days
Essential Criteria:
18. Full Registration with AHPRA
19. Degree in Occupational Therapy
20. Must provide Working With Children Check & National police Check
21. Ability to work in Australia
22. Ability to build rapport with our clients and team
23. Strong communication skills
24. Current driver's license and own vehicle are essential