Job Description
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- Grade 3 Occupational Therapist
- Part time (0.2 FTE), ongoing
- Weekend penalty rates, salary packaging available
- Influence best practice clinical care for the patients in your stream and work within highly specialised service models
- Join a department that is committed to growing your career through robust supervision and a supportive leadership team
- Join a team that values your wellbeing and has flexible work options that support a work/life balance
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 statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About Occupational Therapy
Our Occupational Therapy department at Austin Health is a progressive hub of patient-centred care, continuous improvement, professional growth and supportive career structures. Our focus is on wellbeing, evidence-based service improvement, sustainable workforce, growth and development. This role will join our Better at Home Program.
- Large acute senior leadership team
- Dynamic subacute stream
- Specialist hand therapy service
- Rehabilitation stream with an ABI, spinal, ortho amps specialities
- Expanding Better@Home Program
About Better@Home
Better@Home is an inpatient bed substitution service allowing patients to continue their care at home. The program now provides acute and subacute multi-disciplinary care to help patients achieve their goals, prevent re-admission and in certain circumstances, avoid hospital admission altogether. Patients are admitted to the program from any of the three Austin Health sites. The program has a grade 4 allied health team leader as well as a multidisciplinary team comprising nursing, medical and allied health professionals.
About the role
The grade 3 occupational therapist will be recognised as a clinical expert in acute and/or subacute care with consolidated skills in client-centred assessment, intervention and complex discharge. The grade 3 OT provides expert patient care as part of a multidisciplinary team and is expected to act as a leader within the MDT to support the delivery of excellent patient care.
Eligible Occupational Therapists can become credentialled to the perform the advanced scope role of an Allied Health Interdisciplinary Practitioner (AHIP). AHIPs are trained to deliver excellent transdisciplinary allied health (primarily occupational therapy and physiotherapy) services to Better@Home clients who have complex needs.
About you
You’ll thrive if you have
- Extensive clinical experience in assessment, treatment and goal setting of complex client groups.
- Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, mentor, and inspire others.
- A collaborative spirit and an ability to build networks and strong relationships with peers and leaders.
- Excellent communication and decision-making skills
- Demonstrated passion for research and best practices.
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:
- 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:
- We offer a range of flexible working options that will enhance your work/life balance
- We invest in you, our staff are supported to grow their career and skills through a suite of learning and development opportunities and mentoring
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
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. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. 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: Tegan Bell, Occupational Therapist Grade 4 at [email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Monday 6 July 2026