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About Soaring Health
Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 6 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Heath care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.
Benefits
Flexible working hours
Complete autonomy with calendar and bookings
Working within a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated front-end team
Work-life balance
What You Will Do
In addition to the general OT roles & responsibilities:
Therapeutic use of occupations, and activities, including therapeutic use of self (including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process)
Skill development in self-care, self-management, home management, and community/work/school reintegration
Education and support of individuals, including family members, caregivers, and others, through collaborative and consultative partnerships and family-centered approaches
Care coordination, case management, transition services including discharge planning, client advocacy and onward referral to relevant services
Modification of environments (e.g., home, work, school, community) and adaptation of processes, including the application of ergonomic principles
Assessment, customization, and oversight of equipment provision including orthotic devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices
Driver rehabilitation and community mobility
Use of natural contexts for assessment and intervention (i.e. home, school classrooms, work settings, community)
Use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures to enhance performance such as wound care management, techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processing, and manual therapy technique skills
Taking on more clients of a greater variety
Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently
Be able to effectively supervise AHA students in clinic
Give opportunity to new grads to observe
Be a buddy for new grad OTs
Participate in MDT training and workshops
Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas
You Will Also Be Responsible For
Taking on more COMPLEX clients
Seeing a greater variety of clients of all types
Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently for specialized AT
Be able to effectively supervise PT and AHA students in clinic
Give chance to new grads to observe
Be a buddy for new grad OTs
Participate in MDT training and workshops
Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas
Provide mentoring and supervision for OT and new grad OTs
How We Will Support You
Dedicated admin team
Dedicated HR and finance team to look after all admin affairs
Dedicated team leaders and team manager in each department
Fully stocked clinics with resources
Ability to have resource packs made up to travel within the community
Back-end processes in place to make daily work easier
Resource budget per discipline per month
Dedicated internal/external supervision and mentoring as well as PD
Opportunities for observation of more experienced/ specialized staff across disciplines
What's In It For You
Advancement of clinical knowledge
Working with preferred caseload and client types
Ongoing clinical development
Regular mentoring and supervision
Team specific meetings and support
In-house PD at no cost (Over 40 PD hours per year)
More Benefits
Access to a work car for community and remote work
Paid travel for community work
Paid PD leave
PD budget per calendar year
Paid staff meetings and professional development in-house
Access for work vehicle and work-related travel coverage
Access to gym and swim facilities at our sites located inside leisure centres
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📌 Senior Occupational Therapist
🏢 Soaring Health Sport, Wellnessmmunity Centre
📍 City of Kalamunda