Job Description

As our #AAA team continues to grow, we're looking for a Psychosocial/Mental Health Occupational Therapist to support participants across the Newcastle, Hunter & Central Coast region, with the flexibility to work close to home.

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In this role, you'll empower and advocate for people living with psychosocial disability and mental health challenges. Using a recovery-oriented, strengths-based, and trauma-informed approach, you'll support participants to achieve their goals, build independence, and enhance their wellbeing. You will:

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- Manage an allocated caseload (based on your negotiated hours) and deliver timely therapeutic services
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- Assess participants' developmental, cognitive, emotional, psychological and physical function and capacity through clinical observations and standardised assessments
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- Interpret findings to formulate treatment goals unique to each participant
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- Provide evidence-based therapeutic interventions to help participants enhance their quality of life and meet their goals
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- Maintain awareness of current legislation to ensure compliance
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Qualifications

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To be successful in this role you will have:

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- Current Occupational Therapy membership with AHPRA
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- Passionate about community-based support for people with disability
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- Thrives in a collaborative, multidisciplinary team workplace
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- Time management & organisational skills to manage varied caseload
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As you support many, we support you. You'll enjoy:

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- Exceptional benefits including salary packaging, referral incentives, additional leave purchase options and exclusive corporate discounts
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- Real flexibility to design your work hours and days around your lifestyle
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- A competitive package featuring an industry-leading salary, kilometre reimbursement, laptop, smartphone, PD allowance and performance incentives
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- A balanced way of working with a mix of home, community visits and access to office and clinic spaces
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- Meaningful clinical support through weekly 1:1 supervision, dedicated mentors and guidance from senior clinicians
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- Clear career development with tailored training, ongoing professional development and career pathways across Ability Action Australia & MedHealth
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You are welcome here.

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Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

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We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.

📌 Psychosocial Occupational Therapist (Central Coast Council)
🏢 Ability Action Australia
📍 Central Coast Council