Job Category: Occupational Therapy

• Access to a wealth of best practice resources, equipment and assessments, including being supplied with your own resource bundle worth $250
• A wide range of ongoing support to maintain and increase your knowledge and skills in the best practice provision, including:
  • Weekly supervision and mentoring based on your goals
  • Paid internal professional development worth $2,000 per year
  • Paid external professional development and training package worth $2,500 per year
  • Specialist support across all disciplines, as well as support in and out of work hours from the DST leadership team
• Highly competitive salary packages
  • Vehicle allowance of $13,000 per year with options of salary sacrificing your vehicle
  • 11% Superannuation
  • Access to Salary Packaging providing tax benefits of at least $10,000 per year
  • iPhone or Android Phone package worth $1,200
  • $2,000 Company Laptop package
  • Commission bonuses on a fortnightly basis worth up to $4,000 per year
  • Paid professional indemnity and public liability insurance worth $400 per year
• Flexible working arrangements to create your ideal work-life balance with options including
  • Location-based timetables to limit the travel from your home and throughout the day
  • School-based positions
  • Five weeks of paid annual leave with options for purchasing additional annual leave
  • Additional three days of training/ professional development leave
  • Employee Assistance Program with free counselling sessions each year as well as bonus wellness days leave each year
• Continued recognition
  • Monthly social events organised by our Social Committee
  • Monthly ‘Spirited Award’ recognition and awards. $50 voucher for demonstrating our values.
  • Annual 'Spirited Person of the Year Award' professional development, all expenses paid trip worth up to $5,000. Since 2021, winners have won trips to the Northern Territory and to Queensland.
  • Annual "Discipline of the Year Award"
  • DST Anniversary awards
• Great discounts off your favourite brands:
  • JB HiFi
  • Amazon
  • Myer
  • Kmart
  • Ticketmaster
  • plus many more

As WA’s largest mobile Allied Health Service provider, Down South Therapy makes our families the focus of what we do by going to them. We step into their world to deliver a service that will make a difference to them and help them develop their skills and knowledge to achieve their valued and meaningful goals.

For over 12 years, we have been providing high-quality best-practice Physiotherapy, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy and Psychology services to our expanding clientele across the metro area and into rural and remote areas.

We work with people of all ages through private and government funding, with or without a diagnosis. 

Our continued commitment to providing individualised services to all our families means we need committed and flexible therapists to join our team so we can reach more families across Western Australia.

Becoming a new graduate occupational therapist with Down South Therapy means that you will be starting your career with a supportive, vibrant and passionate team that works together to make a significant impact on the lives of others and those connected to them. 

Our diverse caseload gives you the opportunity to expand your experience and skills in all areas that matter to you the most, working with people of all ages and abilities.

Your first weeks on the graduate program will be focused on professional development. The graded increase in individuals you see daily will ensure you are confident and ready to go with no hesitation.

Targeted career mapping gives you control of where you want to broaden your knowledge.

• Program duration guided by your needs; from 6 months - 1 year
• Extra study programs covering all areas and across disciplines
• Weekly supervision, mentoring and group meetings provide the support you need to achieve your goals
• Shadowing opportunities across the team and different disciplines to gain knowledge, understanding and expand your interest in other areas
• Continuous development opportunities scaffolded to your interests and learning needs.

Our graduate program allows you to connect with other new graduates in the organisation and experienced team members to create your own professional support network.

Our team comes together for regular team meetings 

• Weekly Clinical Supervision to ensure you feel supported and to promote your growth and development
• Weekly discipline-specific and transdisciplinary meetings to learn from and share your knowledge and skills

Apply if you are a Graduate Occupational Therapist that has

• The passion for helping clients to reach their fullest potential and to hit their goals through fun yet functional therapy 
• Ability to work in and contribute to a team
• Desire to work in a client-centred and family-centred practice 
• Effective organisational and time-management skills 
• High levels of communication skills to support advocacy, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution requirements

You will need to have

• AHPRA Registration - Occupational Therapy
• Working With Children Check
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• National Police Check
• Driver’s Licence

So, are you ready for more?

We want you on our team, so apply here today or contact our Clinical Services Manager, Kellie Briggs on 0404 698 218 or email and start the conversation.

If you want more details, check out our website for more information and see what we are all about.

We have multiple positions available for the right people, and Remuneration will be dependent on experience.