Paediatric Occupational Therapist

OT FOR KIDS; Blacktown; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring program

Professional development

Flexible admin time

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Job summary

OT FOR KIDS is seeking an Occupational Therapist to support children across home, clinic and school visits, delivering outcome-focused reports in families' own words.

You will not work alone; a Senior OT will guide you, and you will join a multidisciplinary team that meets regularly. There is a clear eight-level progression and mentoring to grow into clinical leadership.

Qualifications

• You genuinely believe children's behaviour makes sense in context.
• You can write a report a tired parent can actually understand.
• You want feedback and you are not precious about getting it.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sessions across home, clinic and school visits with clear family-friendly reporting.
• Engage in weekly 1:1 mentoring, team meetings, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Run groups and provide parent coaching alongside other clinicians.

Skills

Team collaboration

Report writing

Clinical mentoring

Neuroaffirming practice

Job description

Most weeks you will see children across home, clinic and maybe a school visit - a genuine mix. Some sessions are hands-on skill-building, some are running a social, interest based group alongside another clinician, while others are parent coaching where the real work is helping a parent reframe their child's behaviour. Whatever the session, you will be able to accurately report on the outcomes, in language the family can actually use because that is how we do reports here.

You will not be doing this alone. You will have a Senior OT who has read your wins and high-value questions before your supervision session, not during it. You will walk into team meetings where someone's stuck case actually gets unstuck, because six to ten people who know your children by name are in the room.

How you grow here

This is not a static job description. You are stepping onto a progression framework built across eight OT levels - one that measures your growth by the impact you are actually having, not just your years in the seat, and one built with sustainable caseloads in mind. If you are 1–2 years in, that means structured mentoring and a clear runway. If you are 4–6 years in, it means a real conversation about what clinical leadership could look like for you here, sooner than "someday."

Twenty-five years of knowing what actually works

We were doing this before NDIS existed - which means the way we treat, write reports and support families is not reverse-engineered from a funding model. It is built on what genuinely helps children thrive, with the funding structure fitted around that. For you, that means the systems you are stepping into - treatment frameworks, mentoring, how a report actually gets used - have been refined over two and a half decades, not assembled in the last few years to keep up.

What you get, in practice

• Weekly 1:1 mentoring - not a box-tick, an actual conversation. Fortnightly team meetings, plus termly team huddles with external speakers - regular space to learn from each other and bring in outside expertise.
• Professional development that is driven by what actually moves the needle for your caseload, not a fixed dollar figure. If a workshop genuinely lifts outcomes for your children, we back it.
• Room to build skills in the areas you are actually curious about.
• A genuinely great team culture. The kind where your win gets noticed on the same day.
• Real multidisciplinary work. You will run groups and work proactively alongside other professionals, not refer-and-forget.
• Protected admin time set aside specifically for planning and reports.
• Some flexibility on where your admin time happens - clinic is not the only place clinical planning and admin get done.
• Full-time or part-time considered.

What we need from you

• You genuinely believe children's behaviour makes sense in context. You do not need convincing on neuroaffirming practice, you are already curious about it.
• You can write a report a tired parent can actually understand.
• You want feedback and you are not precious about getting it.