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Location: ApolloBay, VIC, Australia, 3232

Company: Barwon South West

Employment Type - Temporary Part Time; Casual

Hours per fortnight -24

Job Category -Occupational Therapist

Fixed Term or Casual Occupational Therapist - Parental leave cover

- Work for an organisation that recently won the Premiers Small Healthcare Service or the Year at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards 2024
- Live and work along the beautiful Surf Coast at Lorne
- Chance for suitably qualified candidate to enhance their skills in a varied, busy rural hospital

Great Ocean Road Health serves the communities of Lorne, Apollo Bay, and the Surf Coast, providing high-quality, accessible healthcare close to home. Formed in 2019 through the integration of Lorne Community Hospital and Otway Health, we offer a range of services across our Lorne and Apollo Bay campuses. Our goal is to meet the growing healthcare needs of the community, ensuring sustainable, robust care for the future while maintaining local services and staff levels.

About the Role

We are looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Allied Health Team on a casual or fixed term part-time basis for up to 24-hours per fortnight. The role will focus on supporting our community to maintain independence in their homes through home-based assessments, modifications, equipment prescription, and referring into community social support programs. As required, our occupational therapist will provide services to respite admissions, urgent care, and residential care onsite. While the role is based across both sites in Lorne and Apollo Bay the work is predominately in Apollo Bay.





Working at Great Ocean Road Health gives you the opportunity to assist individuals, families and groups living, working and visiting rural communities with their health care needs, making for a rewarding and satisfying experience. Our team is strong and diverse and is supported and nurtured through continuous improvement programs and opportunities for professional development and growth.

- Work Along the Iconic Great Ocean Road Join Great Ocean Road Health and experience a rewarding career in one of Australia’s most breathtaking coastal destinations, serving vibrant communities along the Surf Coast and Otways
- Excellent working conditions with a high sense of job satisfaction
- A vibrant staff wellbeing program and access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
- Wide range of career development opportunities to enhance your career
- Attractive salary packaging benefits. Living expenses capped at $9,010 and meals and entertainment capped at $2,650
- Community Engagement - our health service encourages you to be actively involved in the community health education imitative and preventative care.

Applications Closing: Tuesday 25th August 5pm

Contact Name: Manager Allied Health, Campbell Craig

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We, Great Ocean Road Health, acknowledge our offices are built on unceded lands of the Gadubanud People of the Mear Nation. We pay our respects to all First Nations Peoples and will continue to strengthen the complex knowledge systems of health and healing that intertwine the landscape and communities we live and work in. Great Ocean Road Heath is committed to improving health outcome and pathways for First Nations People and ensuring a culturally safe environment.

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