Rehabilitation Consultant

Advanced Personnel Management; Canberra; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading health service provider as an ADF Rehabilitation Consultant where you will play a pivotal role in the rehabilitation of ADF personnel. Enjoy a supportive work environment, flexible hours, and ample professional development opportunities, all centered around meaningful client outcomes and work-life balance.

Benefits

Discounts at hundreds of retail outlets

Discounted health insurance

Access to the Fitness Passport Program

Qualifications

• Current unrestricted registration or membership with relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC/RCAA or AASW)
• Australian Citizenship
• Occupational rehabilitation experience is highly regarded

Responsibilities

• Apply clinical reasoning to support ADF personnel with injuries.
• Conduct assessments including functional capacity and ergonomic evaluations.
• Develop, implement, and monitor rehabilitation plans.

Skills

Strong clinical reasoning

Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams

Passion to help people rehabilitate

Education

Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, 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 working on base at ACT Health Centre at Duntroon. Part-Time options (from 3 days) may be considered. If you prefer some flexibility in your day, we have options for hybrid work arrangements.

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 almost 15,000 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 discounts at hundreds of retail outlets, discounted health insurance and access to the Fitness Passport Program.

What will make you successful:

• Current unrestricted registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC/RCAA or AASW)
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work
• Australian Citizenship
• Strong clinical reasoning
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
• Passion to help people rehabilitate
• Occupational rehabilitation experience will be highly regarded

Ready to join?

ClickAPPLYnow and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 or connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawhinney

We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. We welcome all people to join our team, including 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.