Occupational Therapist

Soaring Health Sport, Wellness & Community Centre; Thomastown; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Autonomy with calendar & bookings

Modern facility

Job summary

Soaring Health in Melbourne is seeking new graduate Occupational Therapists to evaluate patient history, assess movement and functional abilities, and develop tailored treatment plans. You will mobilize joints, apply OT rehabilitation techniques, and guide patients through exercise programs.

You will also maintain detailed therapy records and collaborate with MDT teams, with opportunities to work in community settings and travel between clinics.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or new graduate in Occupational Therapy.
• Ability to assess movement and functional abilities of patients.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on diagnoses.
• Experience with rehabilitation equipment and manual therapy techniques.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating medical history and movement/functional abilities of new patients.
• Developing treatment plans based on medical diagnoses.
• Mobilizing and manipulating muscles and joints.
• Providing treatment using OT and rehabilitation equipment.
• Giving patients exercises to strengthen motor abilities.
• Maintaining updated patient records of therapy provided.
• Adjusting plans and prescribing new treatment when needed.
• Community-based work with travel to varied client types across ages.

Skills

Occupational Therapy

Assessment

Treatment planning

Manual therapy

MDT collaboration

Education

OT degree

Tools

Orthotic devices

Job description

About Soaring Health

Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 6 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Heath care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.

About Soaring Health

Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 6 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Heath care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Complete autonomy with calendar and bookings
• Working within a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated front-end team
• Work-life balance

What You Will Do

In addition to the new graduate roles & responsibilities:

• Evaluating the medical history and the movement and functional abilities of new patients
• Developing treatment plans based on medical diagnoses
• Mobilizing and manipulating muscles and joints
• Providing treatment using OT and rehabilitation equipment
• Giving patients exercises designed to strengthen and increase their motor abilities
• Keeping updated patient records detailing all therapy provided (i.e. treatment and results)
• Adjusting plans and prescribing new treatment, where necessary
• Community based work with travel and seeing various client types across all ages

You Will Also Be Responsible For

• Therapeutic use of occupations, and activities, including therapeutic use of self (including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process)
• Skill development in self-care, self-management, home management, and community/work/school reintegration
• Education and support of individuals, including family members, caregivers, and others, through collaborative and consultative partnerships and family-centred approaches
• Care coordination, case management, transition services including discharge planning, client advocacy and onward referral to relevant services
• Modification of environments (e.g., home, work, school, community) and adaptation of processes, including the application of ergonomic principles
• Assessment, customisation, and oversight of equipment provision including orthotic devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices
• Driver rehabilitation and community mobility
• Use of natural contexts for assessment and intervention (i.e. home, school classrooms, work settings, community)
• Use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures to enhance performance such as wound care management, techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processing, and manual therapy technique skills
• Taking on more clients of a greater variety
• Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently
• Be able to effectively supervise AHA students in clinic
• Give opportunity to new grads to observe
• Be a buddy for new grad OTs
• Participate in MDT training and workshops
• Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas

How We Will Support You

• Dedicated admin team
• Dedicated HR and finance team to look after all admin affairs
• Dedicated team leaders and team manager in each department
• Fully stocked clinics with resources
• Ability to have resource packs made up to travel within the community
• Back-end processes in place to make daily work easier
• Resource budget per discipline per month
• Dedicated internal/external supervision and mentoring as well as PD
• Opportunities for observation of more experienced/ specialized staff across disciplines

What's In It For You

• Advancement of clinical knowledge
• Working with preferred caseload and client types
• Ongoing clinical development
• Regular mentoring and supervision
• Team specific meetings and support
• In-house PD at no cost (Over 40 PD hours per year)

More Benefits

• Access to a work car for community and remote work
• Paid travel for community work
• Paid PD leave
• PD budget per calendar year
• Paid staff meetings and professional development in-house
• Access for work vehicle and work-related travel coverage
• Access to gym and swim facilities at our sites located inside leisure centres
• Let your career soar at Soaring Health