Paediatric Occupational Therapist position available in Narre Warren, Victoria, Australia.

Our Client is an NFP organisation supporting people with disability of all ages and needs in their homes and in the community with quality services. 

They offer:

• The opportunity to support adults with disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.
• Excellent formal and informal professional development opportunities – including opportunities to develop clinical, administration and management/leadership skills; a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave.
• Communities of practice to support professional networking and development – you’ll be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists, with structured ongoing clinical supervision from Senior Clinicians.
• A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). 
• Administration and logistical support – including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing.
• A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer’s leave and 12 week’s primary carer parental leave).

Your working days may involve:

• delivering therapy in people’s homes, educational settings or in the community; aimed at maximising a person’s functional skills and participation as well as promoting physical health and wellbeing
• working part of an interdisciplinary team of Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists and
• providing indirect customer service/family coordination to support client goals.

About You

You’ll be an established and enthusiastic Occupational Therapist with a tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline, good interpersonal skills, and ability to engage people with a disability, motivate them and build their capability. You’ll have an ability to work in partnership with adults and young people with a disability to set and achieve goals, and to work collaboratively with the person’s supports, including their families.

To be successful in this role you’ll have:

• experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model
• the ability to build positive relationships with clients and their families
• a willingness to improve on your clinical practice – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing clinical skills in areas you’re not familiar with
• care for the work you do and for the people you work with
• competency in a variety of IT platforms, particularly client management systems
• good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
• AHPRA Registration (Occupational Therapy), and
• an Australian driver’s licence and own vehicle, and a willingness to travel across Northern Melbourne region, as required

If you are an Occupational Therapist and looking for a new challenge we’d love to discuss this role and other relevant opportunities with you.

About us:

Blue Sky People is a UK & Australia based healthcare recruitment agency, with over 20 years experience recruiting for clients in Australia, UK and UAE. 

With clients nationwide across Australia and ranging from some of Australia’s largest private healthcare businesses to boutique independent practices, we welcome applications from registered Occupational Therapists in Australia as well as those with an interest in moving to Australia from the UK and Ireland. 

Years of experience looking after healthcare careers at home and abroad has provided us with a network of specialist advisors to support you with relocation assistance, visa advice, currency and banking, insurance, financial and tax advisory services. We have a wealth of practical knowledge to help you with your move and if we don’t know it, we know an expert who does. 

Working with hundreds of healthcare businesses throughout Australia gives us access to the whole of market, allowing us to source opportunities to meet your professional, lifestyle and family needs. 

We offer a no-obligation call where you can discuss your plans in detail and we can frame our advice to suit your own specific circumstances. Best of all, our services to candidates are Free of Charge with our fees recovered from the end client.

With a range of visa’s available, we’ll talk you through the pro’s and cons of each, advising you on what options are best suited to your personal and/or family circumstances – introducing you to our partners for further professional advice as required. 

Wherever and whenever you are looking to make the move within or to Australia, we’d love to hear from you. Feel free to ask us about our next UK Trade Show events and Nationwide client roadshows.