• Occupational Therapist – Grade 2 permanent full time (80hrs/fortnight).
• Are you looking for a Grade 2 opportunity to develop your clinical expertise, leadership and skills in an OT team that values team work and encourages innovative positive service development
• Work full time in a subacute (inpatient and community) rehabilitation setting.
• Work with a variety of caseloads including Neuro, GEM, Orthopaedics/Amputees, Trauma, pulmonary/cardio group programs, and palliative care
• This is the job for you as a Grade 2 at Barwon Health working in our Subacute Rehabilitation Team!
• 80 hours per fortnight, including entitlements of weekend remuneration, ADO, professional development leave and 5 weeks Annual leave for >10 Sat shifts pa.

About the role

We have an opportunity for a passionate and experienced Grade 2 Occupational Therapist to join our subacute rehabilitation team at McKellar Centre. This role requires you to possess excellent communication skills, flexibility, accountability and the capacity to work well within a variety of teams. Leadership skills are also valued from the unique perspective of provided by a leave relief role crossing all areas of the service. This role also involves a supervision of grade 1 ‘s, AHA’s and students at times.

The successful applicant will be able to work across Neurological, GEM, Orthopaedic, Amputee, Trauma, and palliative care caseloads in both inpatient and community rehabilitation settings, to help meet service gaps as required resulting from annual leave, extended personal leave and maternity leave. Alternate Saturday shifts is required for a full time contract. Reduced Saturday requirement and part time contract is negotiable.

The Barwon Health Subacute Occupational Therapy team is a committed, dynamic, innovative team with a passion for consumer centred clinical care, service improvement and research.  We have:

• Specialist senior clinicians in a variety of areas available for mentoring.
• Strong partnerships with Deakin University for student education, projects, and research,
• Successful grant applications for developing a library of assistive technology resources and use of innovative assessment and treatment modalities including SAEBO splint, TAPIT and X-Sensor pressure mapping resources which have led to a number of conference presentations, publications and external presentations.
• Engage in multicentre Research trials such as the SENSe Implementation with the Florey Institute investigating knowledge translation for evidence based somatosensory rehabilitation post stroke

You will be part of a large community of over 100 Occupational Therapy staff. Comprehensive orientation will be provided, access to professional development is available and you will supervise junior staff and Occupational Therapy students. 

About the facility

Barwon Health’s McKellar Centre offers a range of client centred rehabilitation services that enable people to make a dynamic recovery.  Located only minutes from the centre of Geelong, it is situated on a vibrant community asset with parkland surrounds. The 100 bed inpatient rehabilitation facility and Community Rehabilitation Service both offer comprehensive neurological, trauma, amputee and orthopaedic rehabilitation, geriatric evaluation and management, and palliative care services. We have state-of-the-art facilities in regard to assistive technology and education facilities.

About the culture

You will work with an innovative multidisciplinary team who maintain extensive knowledge and experience. You will have support and guidance from fellow team members and management who exhibit our Barwon Health values, respect, compassion, commitment, accountability and innovation.

“Our people caring for the community is what makes us great”

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club
• Our Commitment to Child Safety

• At Barwon Health we harness a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We will embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of our staff and consumers including children and have appropriate recruitment resources in place to ensure background checks and reference checks are completed.
• At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
• We Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.