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Soaring Health
Craigieburn VIC•Remote
$100,000 - $130,000 a year - Part-time, Full-time
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Job details

Pay

  • $100,000 - $130,000 a year

Job type

  • Part-time
  • Full-time

Shift and schedule

  • Monday to Friday

Full job description

CLOSING DATE:
31-07-2026
DEPARTMENT:
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
SALARY RANGE:
$100,000
    $130,000

    Location

    Flexibility to work across various sites:
    • Craigieburn
    • Reservoir
    • Thomastown
    • Templestowe Lower
    • Telehealth-based
    • Community-based
    • Sydenham

    Qualifications

    AHPRA registration
    Membership with professional body
    Working with Children Check
    Victorian Police Check
    Australian driver's license
    Experience in your field (preferred but not essential)

    Working Hours

    • Full time OR Part time options available.
    • We are open from 8AM to 8PM Monday to Friday & 8AM to 6PM on Saturday
    • You are able to select the working hours that suit you best


    Contact Officer

    Nav Ahmad-Khan - Head of Allied Health

    Office: 03-9013 5987

    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 GENERAL OT ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
    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-centered 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, customzation, 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
    YOU WILL ALSO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:
    Taking on more COMPLEX clients
    Seeing a greater variety of clients of all types
    Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently for specialized AT
    Be able to effectively supervise PT and 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
    Provide mentoring and supervision for OT and new grad OTs

    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
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