Optimum Healthcare Australia

Essendon, Melbourne VIC

  • Be part of a multidisciplinary team
  • No billable targets!
  • Achieve work-life balance with flexible work hours and options to work from home or at our offices (Laverton and Essendon)
  • Supervision and mentoring from experienced OTs 
  • Pick your own caseload so you can work in the area you’re most passionate about
  • Full admin support – allowing you to just focus on your jam
  • 2 Mental Health days a year, taken whenever needed to recharge, avoid burnout and look after yourself – we believe that you need to care for yourself before you can care for others!

What’s the Deal

To meet ongoing demand, we’re looking for passionate and personable Occupational Therapists to join our amazing team. We have multiple positions going to suit experienced OTs as well as early career OTs.

About You

You are an Occupational Therapist looking for a new and exciting opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge and helping clients to live their best life!

You are passionate and care deeply of everyone’s right to be inclusive, safe and independent.  You seek to knock down functional barriers at every opportunity by providing innovative, evidence-based and patient-focused services to clients in their community setting. Empowering participants and their families with the skills to thrive and live a happier life is what lights your fire.

You have strong interpersonal skills that allow you to develop collaborative relationships with clients, families, and other like-minded professionals. You strive to do the best job possible in order to make extraordinary differences in the lives of the clients you work with!

About the Opportunity

We offer a unique opportunity for an innovative and motivated Occupational Therapist to join our compassionate and experienced team on a full-time or part-time basis. A contractor arrangement is also available, dependant on the candidates skills and experience.

The role will involve providing home based occupational therapy assessment, intervention and consultation services involving tailored solutions to functional barriers. This includes ADL functional assessments, AT assessment and prescription, minor and/or major modifications, in-home education, etc. We are happy to tailor your caseload to suit your interests and area of expertise. You will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with other like-minded allied health professionals to provide a comprehensive and holistic service for your clients.

You will also have the opportunity to create therapy programs for Allied Health Assistants (AHAs) to implement.

We value our team members and look to support them at every opportunity. We offer our team a range of flexible work options such as working from home and flexible hours to suit your needs.

We also offer 2 Mental Health days a year to be taken at any time you need to clear your mind, destress and recharge to avoid burning out.

All of the clients are based in the northern and/or western suburbs of Melbourne to minimise time travelling between clients.

About the Benefits

  • Excellent salary plus super (up to $120k plus super depending on experience).
  • Travel reimbursements are provided.
  • Generous training allowance of $1000 for professional development (PD) courses.
  • Regular supervision and mentoring with a Senior Occupational Therapist to further your clinical knowledge and skillsets.
  • Opportunities to develop into senior roles in your area of clinical expertise and interest.
  • Structured support while you gradually build up your caseload.
  • You will have a high degree of autonomy of your portfolio.
  • We highly value work/life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours and working from the office or home.
  • Two Mental Health days to be taken at any time you need at full pay.
  • Full administrative support so you can concentrate on providing quality care to clients.
  • A fun and friendly team who supports each other as well as get together for regular social events.
  • Be provided with electronic devices (laptops and mobile phone) and access to a variety of clinic resources and assessments.
  • Be a part of a passionate and forward-thinking team and have your say to influence the practice’s service provision strategy.

About Optimum Healthcare Australia

We are a boutique health care practice – made up of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, Osteopaths, Massage Therapists and Therapy Assistants – focused on delivering excellent client outcomes. We exist to empower and support our clients with the skills and resources they need to thrive and live happier lives.

Here at Optimum Healthcare, we recognize that the skill, dedication and enthusiasm of our team is critical to the practice’s success. We work hard to create a positive and supportive team environment where each clinician can grow their clinical skills and enjoy a healthy work life balance.

If this sounds like the position for you, then we would love to hear from you

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