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    Senior Occupational Therapist - Melbourne, United States - Austin Health

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    State-wide Child and Family Centre | Senior Occupational Therapist - OT3

    Opportunity to play a vital role in a new vibrant, innovative, therapeutic team who work together to improve outcomes for children and families/carers.

  • Permanent Full time, part time/job share considered
  • Flexible hours
  • $99,606 - $113796 base + salary packaging + super (pro-rata for part time)
  • 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 purpose, which is to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

    About the State-wide Child and Family Centre. (SCFC)

    The SCFC is part of the Mental Health Division within Austin Health and is a newly established Service situated offsite from Austin Health in a purpose-built facility. The SCFC is one of many programs within Infant, Child, and Youth Mental Health Service (ICYMHS) and provides a specialised therapeutic residential service for children aged up to 12 years who have experienced adverse life events.

    About the role:

    The Senior Occupational Therapist will integrate occupational therapy knowledge of and experience in how mental health, social, emotional, behavioural, systemic, and environmental factors impact children's and families' motivation, roles, routines and occupational performance within the developmental context of childhood and family life

    The Senior OT is an integral part of the team, collaborating on groups, formulations, treatment. discharge planning, capacity building, program planning, quality improvement and service development.

    A regular day will see you:

  • Contribute to the understanding of the child's strengths and difficulties from an occupational performance perspective and support the understanding of sensory processing and the role of sensory interventions in the treatment of trauma related behaviours, providing recommendations to support co-and-self-regulation awareness and self-regulation strategies at an individual / group / family / staff / school level.
  • Assist in the coordination of the Centre's group therapy program.
  • Provide psychotherapeutic and psychosocial interventions to children and families residing at the Centre
  • Provide discipline specific and / or clinical specialist expertise and assessments that both contributes to excellent clinical outcomes for children and their families as well as the parents/carers and within care systems.
  • Coordinate referrals and admissions of children and families to the Centre
  • Liaise with relevant community agencies, provide secondary consultation, training and promote the service to wider community
  • About you

    If you are passionate about working with children and families and have knowledge and experience in the use of current theoretical approaches and best practice and enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team and contribute to the development of shaping the future of an innovative child and family mental health team, we are keen for you to join us

    To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

  • Display a high level of knowledge and practice in, the principles of recovery-orientated, trauma-informed, family-centred, and collaborative care and expertise in engaging children and their families within a range of settings.
  • Provide high quality, evidence-based clinical assessment, risk formulation and treatment at an individual or systems level as indicated by clinical need. Treatment modalities may include individual, parent, family, and group therapy.
  • Support the leadership team in providing direction and leadership, based on expert clinical knowledge and experience, in a multidisciplinary team environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide secondary consultation to families, and to primary and other specialist service providers on behalf of the team (at a senior clinician level).
  • Willingness and ability to work flexibly outside business hours.
  • 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:

  • $11,660 in salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
  • A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
  • Mentoring, learning and career development opportunities
  • Purchased leave options
  • Flexible working arrangements

  • Inclusion at Austin

    We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies and abilities. We welcome and support applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, physically or culturally diverse, LGBTQIA+, and people of any age.

    Work with us

    If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. 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.



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