• Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
• Position Classification: Occupational Therapist Level 1 / 2
• Location: Katoomba Community Health Centre
• Hours Per Week: 38
• Requisition ID: REQ570011

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region. 

NBMLHD Community Mental Health offers a range of specialised services for children, young people, families and older people, through our community-based services and health centres. Our multidisciplinary health professionals and case managers take a collaborative approach to mental health care by linking with their patients to work together and consult within an environment appropriate to the person's needs.

The successful incumbent will provide appropriate occupational therapy assessments and interventions to encourage and increase functional capacity and independence, drawn from relevant theoretical and clinical frameworks to people with a severe and persistent mental illness that are least intrusive, collaborative, recovery oriented, nominated carer and family responsive.

You will provide service in a manner that is inclusive, rehabilitative, based on evidence-based practice, encourages self-advocacy, facilitates empowerment and the person's capacity for optimal independent function. If this is the kind of working environment for you and the opportunities excite you, please apply now!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO)
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here - Child Safe Standards.

Selection Criteria:

1. Degree in Occupational Therapy and current registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
2. Demonstrated capabilities and experience in recovery-oriented occupational therapy service provision in a mental health setting.
3. Experience working in an Assertive Community Treatment Team and/or knowledge of the principles that guide service delivery within this model of practice.
4. Commitment to the philosophy of recovery and consumer and carer consultation.
5. Demonstrated understanding of the effects of severe and persistent mental illness on people and a willingness to actively engage with consumers to minimise this impact.
6. Ability to work independently and as a part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team that utilises the skills of all team members as well as the resources available in the community.
7. Current Driver's Licence and willingness to use for work purpose travel.

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

Need more information?

• A position description is attached.
• For role related queries or questions contact Yasmin Hudson-Hoyle on [email protected].