• Perm 0.8 EFT – Full-time, Grade 2 OT Paediatrics, Doncaster
• Deliver School Readiness Funding, Community Health and NDIS 0-12 yrs
• Highly supportive multi and trans-disciplinary team environment

About Us

Access Health and Community, with a 150-year legacy of compassionate care, is on a mission to build healthier lives together. Our team of over 400 dedicated employees and 200 volunteers, serves across 18 locations. We are thrilled to announce our upcoming merger with Inspiro, a trusted partner in community health. Inspiro, with a skilled team of 100, is dedicated to providing accessible, inclusive, and high-quality care in the Yarra Ranges. This merger strengthens our commitment to delivering exceptional care and opens up new opportunities for our team and the communities we serve.

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated, paediatric experienced Grade 2 clinician to join our growing Child & Family Services Team. The applicant will demonstrate a passion for working within a multi and transdisciplinary supportive team environment in the wonderful world of paediatrics. AccessHC has an excellent reputation for its highly experienced and dynamic teams of allied health professionals who deliver services to pre-school and school aged children and their families.

SCHOOL READINESS FUNDING

School Readiness Funding provides kindergartens with access to quality programs and support systems that will help children get the most out of their early learning. Alongside a team of allied health professionals, this role will deliver capacity building supports to education staff and families with a focus on the three priority areas of wellbeing, communication and access/inclusion.

Occupational therapy support will be provided through coaching, modelling, consultation and formal/informal learning options focusing on areas such as self-care, self-regulation and fine motor skills.

COMMUNITY HEALTH AND NDIS FUNDING

Within multi and transdisciplinary teams, this role will deliver centre based and outreach services to eligible families in Eastern Melbourne through Community Health and NDIS funding.We offer a highly supportive work environment and value joint assessments, joint interventions and group programs where families receive holistic, strengths-based support, and where clinicians share knowledge and skills with each other.

We offer our team members weekly ongoing learning and development opportunities through regular team meetings, case conferencing and peer support. Our Senior Occupational Therapists conduct fortnightly one-to-one supervision providing a rich learning environment. This is a permanent full-time position reporting to the Manager of Clinical Operations based across our Child and Family sites.

What you will be doing Through the mixed funding sources, this role will:

• Work with the School Readiness Funding team to complete needs assessments with local kindergartens, develop support plans and implement the agreed supports with educators and families
• Operate a paediatric occupational therapy service within multi and transdisciplinary teams to ensure the delivery of centre based and outreach services to all eligible clients
• Assess, plan and provide interventions for a caseload of pre-school and school aged children
• Initiate, plan, implement and evaluate group therapy programs for children as appropriate
• Participate in client care meetings and team meetings for the purposes of care planning, case conferencing and client review
• In collaboration with other team members, review the content of individual and group programs and make service changes based on the outcome of these reviews

What you will bring

• You will bring exceptional child and family centred practice. You will be resilient, compassionate and bring a heart for building family capacity
• Tertiary qualification in occupational therapy and a passion for working with children
• Experience working as an occupational therapist with children and their families
• Demonstrated knowledge of typical and atypical childhood development in order to understand the child’s developmental delay or disability
• Demonstrated skills in occupational therapy assessment and intervention, based on current evidenced-based practice to ensure positive outcomes for the child and family
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Experience in planning and delivering group therapy programs
• A passion to deliver an exceptional customer service

Access Health and Community Culture and Benefits

Join us and experience a career where you truly make a difference.

The position encompasses an extensive range of benefits:

• Supportive and values-based culture and engaged workforce
• Culture of trust and empowerment for people to grow and thrive
• Commitment to a work-life balance with flexible working conditions
• Focus on staff wellbeing and health - Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Commitment to ongoing professional development and career growth
• Paid parental leave and opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Annual leave loading
• Generous salary packaging opportunities (up to $15,990 per annum + $2,650 meals and entertainment expenses)

Read more about our culture and benefits: https://accesshc.org.au/culture-and-benefits

Apply Now

Please reach out to Jo Thorpe, Senior Manager Child & Family Services, 0432184977 for further information and/or the opportunity to discuss this role.

Please refer to the position description on our website for the key selection criteria information: https://accesshc.org.au/careers/

Apply now so you don’t miss this opportunity. We will be assessing applications as they are submitted.

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