You will be a part of a caring and supportive team, making a real difference to people living with the dual stigma of mental illness and offending.

Key responsibilities

- Facilitation of both group and individual assessment and interventions.
- Participate in the assessment and treatment of patients through group work and individual sessions, making a solid discipline-specific contribution to the clinical team’s understanding of the patient and their situation.
- Assess, interpret and intervene to improve occupational performance through identifying individual needs based on functional deficits and strengths, and through promoting occupational choices.
- Work with individuals to enhance their understanding of mental health issues and promote engagement in meaningful occupations and personal skill development in order to support them in managing their mental health needs.





What you need

- Understanding and commitment to working within the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia’s Australian Occupational Therapy competency standards (2018) and Code of Ethics, Conceptual understanding of the theories of occupational performance and a commitment to understanding and improving patient functioning through assessment and treatment using occupational models of intervention.
- Ability to motivate others and to promote learning and creative problem solving.
- Demonstrated skills in the mental health field, knowledge and understanding of the current occupational therapy approaches in working with mentally ill people.

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📌 Occupational Therapist (Melbourne)
🏢 Forensicare
📍 Melbourne