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Work type: Full - Time (Auto), Part - Time (Auto)
Location: Western Melbourne
Categories: Occupational Therapist

Location: West (Sunshine, Newport)
Vacancy Type:  Permanent - Part-time/Full-Time
Job reference:  494456

Are you an established Occupational Therapist seeking a fulfilling, flexible new role? Could you provide exceptional support for Yooralla’s clients to achieve their goals, do you like working as part of a team and do you share our values? Then, why not join the passionate Yooralla allied health team?

A therapy role with Yooralla offers:

• The opportunity to support children and young people with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.
• Excellent formal and informal professional development opportunities – including opportunities to develop clinical, administration and management/leadership skills; a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave.
• Communities of practice to support professional networking and development – you’ll be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists, with structured ongoing clinical supervision from Senior Clinicians.
• A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). Our allied health positions can be undertaken full-time or part-time, and we will support you to balance your lifestyle goals with providing excellent care to our clients.
• Administration and logistical support - including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing.
• A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer’s leave and 12 week’s primary carer parental leave).

About the role

Yooralla has a vacancy in the West (Sunshine, Newport) for a passionate, positive relationship builder, with experience working with a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model to join our team as a permanent full-time or part-time Paediatric Occupational Therapist. This fulfilling role will provide best practice, evidence-based occupational therapy services across the scope of practice to children and young people with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.

Your working days may involve:

• delivering therapy in people's homes, educational settings or in the community; aimed at maximising a person’s functional skills and participation as well as promoting physical health and wellbeing
• working part of an interdisciplinary team of Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists
• providing indirect client service/family coordination to support client goals.

About You

You’ll be an established and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, good interpersonal skills, and ability to engage people with a disability, motivate them and build their capability. You’ll have an ability to work in partnership with children and young people with a disability to set and achieve goals, and to work collaboratively with the person’s supports, including their families.

• experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model
• the ability to build positive relationships with clients and their families
• a willingness to improve on your clinical practice – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing clinical skills in areas you’re not familiar with
• care for the work you do and for the people you work with
• competency in a variety of IT platforms, particularly client management systems
• good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• AHPRA Registration (Occupational Therapy), and
• an Australian driver’s licence and own vehicle, and a willingness to travel across Western Melbourne region, as required

Appointment is subject to pre-employment checks including the NDIS Worker Screening Check, Inherent Position Requirements Employee Declaration, Working with Children’s Check, Reference Checks, AHPRA Registration Check, etc.

Sound like you? Apply Now!

Advertised: 05 Apr 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
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