Sea Change Health Professionals – Nowra NSW

Occupational Therapist, Aged care community work.

Illawarra | Shellharbour office | Community based role

SEEK highlights

- Build your caseload around aged care clients
- Work locally across the region with a Shellharbour/Nowra office and team around you
- Autonomy, genuine clinical support and meaningful community based work
- Learn and grow alongside experienced OT's, whether you're deepening existing skills or just starting to explore this area

Want to focus your OT career on Aged Home Care?

Sea Change Health Professionals is looking for an Occupational Therapist with an interest or background in Aged Care to join our Illawarra team.

This isn't a generic OT role where you're expected to be everything to everyone.

We want to continue building our OT capability and are looking for someone who enjoys working with people experiencing at home ageing issues, complex needs and challenges with everyday function. Whether you're an experienced OT or a clinician who wants to move into this area and learn from those who are already doing it well, we want to hear from you.

You'll be part of a broader multidisciplinary allied health team, with our Shellharbour office providing a local base for collaboration, report writing, mentoring, meetings and catching up with the team.

What the role looks like

Your caseload will have a strong focus on aged home care and functional capacity, working with people in their own homes and communities.

Depending on your experience and interests, your work may include:

- Functional capacity assessments
- OT assessments




- Understanding the impact of ageing on everyday function
- Establishing routines, structure and meaningful daily activity
- Organisational strategies
- Assessment and intervention
- Independent living and community participation
- Capacity building interventions
- Home and living recommendations
- Working collaboratively with families, support coordinators, support workers and other health professionals
- Preparing clear, practical and evidence based reports and recommendations

Keeping seniors out of hospitals is our main goal!

We want our OTs spending their time doing work that has a genuine impact, not producing recommendations that disappear into a report and are never seen again.

The kind of OT we're looking for

You might already be working predominantly in aged care, or you may be an experienced community OT who wants to move further into this area and build your skills alongside clinicians who know it well.

You will ideally have:

- AHPRA registration as an Occupational Therapist
- Experience or a robust clinical interest in aged care
- Confidence working independently in the community, or a willingness to build this confidence with support
- Strong clinical reasoning and communication skills
- An ability to build rapport with clients who may have complex presentations




- Good written assessment and report writing skills
- A practical, person centred approach to therapy
- A current driver's licence and ability to travel locally

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who enjoys understanding why a person is struggling to function and what can practically be changed to improve their life.

Why Sea Change?

We're a growing allied health organisation, but we still want our clinicians to know the people they work with and feel connected to their local team.

At Sea Change you will have:

- A local Shellharbour office rather than being completely isolated as a mobile clinician
- A multidisciplinary team around you
- Clinical and operational support when you need it, including mentoring from experienced mental health OTs
- Flexibility and autonomy in how you structure your week
- Systems and administration support designed to reduce unnecessary clinician workload
- Opportunities to develop deeper expertise in OT
- The opportunity to help shape and grow our OT service

About Sea Change Health Professionals:

Sea Change Health Professionals provides mobile and community based allied health services across NSW and other parts of Australia.

Our team includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Behaviour Support Practitioners, Dietitians, Speech Pathologists and other allied health professionals working across disability, aged care and community health.

We believe good community healthcare depends on strong clinical work, practical recommendations and exceptional communication.

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