Team Leader, Occupational Rehabilitation & Return-to-Work

Altius Group; Australia; Remote; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above award salary

Generous bonus scheme

Benefits

Job summary

Altius Group is hiring a Team Leader to guide a dedicated rehabilitation team, ensuring safe and timely return-to-work outcomes for workers. You will influence best practice, manage caseloads, and partner with clients, employers and insurers to achieve durable results.

You will lead with clinical expertise, develop care plans, and drive service excellence across Australia while staying ahead of industry trends through structured professional development.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Physiotherapy, OT, EP, Psychology or Rehab Counselling and appropriate registration.
• Prior experience in Occupational Rehabilitation.
• Prior experience leading and managing a team.
• Full Australian working rights.
• Current driver's license and car.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire your team to drive positive outcomes for customers and facilitate safe, timely return to work.
• Engage regularly with your team to ensure service agreements are satisfied and goals are met.
• Develop personalised rehabilitation plans supporting a whole-of-person approach.
• Complete a range of assessments including Initial Needs, Functional Capacity, Workplace and Vocational.
• Collaborate with clients, families, insurers, employers and other healthcare professionals.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Clinical knowledge

Education

Physiotherapy

Occupational Therapy

Exercise Physiology

Psychology

Rehabilitation Counselling

Job description

GET TO KNOW ALTIUS

Altius was founded in 2001 with a simple aspiration; to drive new heights of workplace health and wellbeing. Since then, we've built a track record of expertise and positive impact in four critical service areas - PeopleSense Psychology & Wellbeing, Rehabilitation Services, Executive Health Solutions, and Workplace Health & Safety - that span the workplace wellbeing spectrum- still driven by a single goal: to elevate the wellbeing of people, workplaces and communities across Australia.

WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING WITH US?

Unleash your potential:

• You will join a market leader with over 20 years' experience of supporting people on their wellbeing journey
• With multiple division and locations across Australia there are opportunities expand your horizons into new areas
• Take control of your career development and progression pathway!
• Support and training to empower you to manage your caseload effectively
• Above award salary, generous bonus scheme, benefits, annual salary review.
• Recognition of our people through national social award events & office-based awards.

YOUR NEW ROLE

We are looking for a Team Leader to join us on a Maternity leave contract, you will lead and inspire your team to drive positive outcomes for our customers in providing exceptional services to facilitate the safe, timely and durable return to work of workers.

You will engage regularly with your team to think strategically, ensure service agreements are satisfied as well as support the team in meeting their goals and objectives

Staying ahead of industry trends through structured professional development, you will also impart your knowledge to others as you influence best practice in workplace rehabilitation.

• Develop personalised rehabilitation plans that support a whole-of-person approach to rehabilitation
• Complete a range of assessments including Initial Needs Assessment, Functional Capacity Evaluations, Workplace Assessments and Vocational Assessments.
• Use lateral thinking and forward planning skills to identify potential return to work pathways in line with likely recovery milestones
• Utilise problem-solving skills, clinical experience, and knowledge of injury management to perform assessments and facilitate the return to work of claimants
• You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders, including clients, their families, insurance companies, employers and other healthcare professionals to evaluate physical, psychological, and social factors
• Present case information to various stakeholders and providing credible recommendations/solutions to drive the desired goal

WHAT YOU NEED TO JOIN US

• You will hold a tertiary qualification in either Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, or Rehabilitation Counselling and appropriate registration
• Prior experience in the field of Occupational Rehabilitation
• Prior experience leading and managing a team
• Full Australian working rights
• Current driver's license and car

HOW TO APPLY

If Altius sounds like a place to be you click 'Apply Now'.

If you would like to have a confidential conversation before applying or if you're interested in a career with Altius but this role is not right for you, please call Monique on0424 804 685

Altius Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and an inclusive workforce. Research has shown that, in Australia, women, people living with disability, LGBTQIA+, First Nations people, and those from minority groups are less likely to apply for a role because they feel they will not be successful. We believe in the strength of diversity and inclusion, and we would like to strongly encourage those who identify with any of these groups to apply for a role with us.