Occupational Therapist

Overview

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 new graduate roles & responsibilities: Evaluating the medical history and the movement and functional abilities of new patients
• Developing treatment plans based on medical diagnoses
• Mobilizing and manipulating muscles and joints
• Providing treatment using OT and rehabilitation equipment
• Giving patients exercises designed to strengthen and increase their motor abilities
• Keeping updated patient records detailing all therapy provided (i.e. treatment and results)
• Adjusting plans and prescribing new treatment, where necessary
• Community based work with travel and seeing various client types across all ages

You Will Also Be Responsible For

• 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-centred 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, customisation, 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
• Completing AT assessment and reports independently
• Supervising AHA students in clinic
• Providing opportunities 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

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

Whats 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
• Let your career soar at Soaring Health

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider

Industries

• Public Health

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