ADF Rehabilitation Consultant

Advanced Personnel Management; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fitness Passport program

Job summary

Acumen Health is seeking an ADF Rehabilitation Consultant to support personnel with physical or psychological injuries, using clinical reasoning to promote recovery and return to full function. This role focuses on holistic rehab within a multidisciplinary team, located at HMAS Watson.

You will conduct functional capacity and worksite assessments, develop rehabilitation plans, collaborate with medical specialists and other providers, and monitor outcomes with a person-centred approach.

Qualifications

• Current unrestricted registration with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC or AASW).
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work.
• Australian Citizenship.
• Minimum of one year clinical work experience in your chosen profession.
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams.
• Passion to help people rehabilitate.
• Occupational rehabilitation experience.

Responsibilities

• Take a holistic care approach within a multidisciplinary team to support rehab to healing.
• Perform assessments such as functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments.
• Collaborate with employees, medical specialists, other treatment providers and allied health professionals.
• Develop, implement and monitor rehabilitation plans.
• KPI-based service delivery with a genuine person-centred focus.
• Set working hours 7:30am–3:30pm, located at HMAS Watson.
• Onboarding and mentoring support to build clinical knowledge and expertise.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Team collaboration

Rehabilitation focus

Education

Tertiary qualifications in OT/PT/EP/Psychology/Rehabilitation Counselling/Nursing/Osteopathy or Social Work

Job description

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen Health delivers the highest standard in services across personal injury and occupational health. The team at Acumen Health focus on recovery and function to get clients back to work and back to life whatever their age, stage, or situation. Our personal injury division provides services through federal and state-based Workers Compensations, Motor Accident Schemes and Life Insurance. Acumen Health is Australia’s exclusive provider of Occupational Rehabilitation services to the Australian Defence Force.

As an ADF Rehabilitation Consultant, you will apply your clinical reasoning skills to support ADF personnel who have sustained a physical and/or psychological injury. A unique role where your rewards are truly meaningful and purposeful. Be part of the team that gets our military fully fit and ready to defend and protect Australia.

• Taking a holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing
• Perform a variety of assessments depending on your area of clinical expertise. This could include functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including the employee who has suffered injury, illness, or trauma, medical specialists, other treatment providers and allied health professionals
• Develop, implement and monitor rehabilitation plans.

KPI’s based on service delivery outcomes, NOT billable hours. Genuine person-centred focus and goal setting.

Set working hours means you can truly have WORK / LIFE balance – no overtime, no outside of work hours work. Enjoy early starts and early finishes: 7:30am - 3:30pm Monday to Friday. You will be located at HMAS Watson.

Joining a high-quality service provider, you will be SUPPORTED and MENTORED through direct interaction and an extensive onboarding process (incl. ongoing shadowing) to build your technical knowledge and expertise setting you up for success.

As part of the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of over 16,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

Enjoy all the perks of a global conglomerate including access to the Fitness Passport program plus discounts at hundreds of retail outlets.

What will make you successful:

• Current unrestricted registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC or AASW)
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work
• Australian Citizenship
• Minimum of one year clinical work experience, registered in your chosen profession
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
• Passion to help people rehabilitate
• Occupational rehabilitation experience

We welcome all people to join our team, including Veterans, people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity. We believe each person’s uniqueness makes us even better at the work we do.

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