Occupational Therapist, Casual - All Grades
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- Weekends, public holidays and occasional midweek work
- Casual pay rate $42.91 -$72.34 / hour depending on grade and classification level
- Up to $12,000 tax free earnings with salary packaging options
- Join a social, supportive team where our team runs social and wellbeing activities
- Join a department that values employee development and offers great career opportunities
- Grow your career by gaining experience in a leading tertiary health setting
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
We are searching for passionate Occupational Therapists with well-developed clinical skills, and experience driving best practice patient care in a bustling public health setting. We offer weekend and public holiday roles in acute complex discharge planning, acute stoke/neurology and a short stay surgical ward. Occasional midweek work may become available in any of our three Austin campuses.
About Occupational Therapy:
Our Occupational Therapy department at Austin Health is a bustling hub of patient-centered care, continuous improvement, professional growth and supportive career structures. Our focus is on wellbeing, evidence-based service improvement, sustainable workforce, and growth and development.
A typical day will see you deliver excellent clinical care: You will complete person-centred assessments, intervention and complex discharge planning to achieve positive patient outcomes in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team.
Our five diverse streams - Outpatients, Acute, Aged Care, Rehabilitation, and Better@Home - offer endless opportunities to refine your skills and expand your horizons. You'll find inspiration, growth, and a sense of belonging within our team.
You’ll thrive if you have:
- Developed clinical experience in a public hospital setting
- A passion to become, and develop others to be the best OT you can be
- Effective self-management skills which enable you to flourish in a dynamic environment
- A collaborative spirit and a commitment to building strong relationships
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport and car parking
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Carol Davis at Carol.DAVIS@austin.org.au.
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position descriptions below for further details.
