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1 year ago
Occupational Therapist Team Leader
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Company information
- Company
- Gorilla Jobs
- Location
- Australia, New South Wales, Newcastle Region, Newcastle Area Australia
- Posted
- 1 year ago
Job description
Key Highlights:
The role is based in Newcastle with offices in Newcastle or East Maitland. Contact Jem on 0468760842 for more information.
As the Occupational Therapist Team Leader your responsibilities will include:
Apply now or email your resume to Jem Melcher (Allied Health Division) to [email protected] or call +61 468 760 842 to hear more about the role.
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- Lead a fantastic team of 6 Occupational Therapists
- Earn between $105,000 - $120,000 + Super
- Flexibility to WFH and manage your own schedule
The role is based in Newcastle with offices in Newcastle or East Maitland. Contact Jem on 0468760842 for more information.
As the Occupational Therapist Team Leader your responsibilities will include:
- Lead & Mentor: Provide day-to-day service delivery guidance, answer questions, and offer strategies for complex cases.
- Train & Develop: Deliver training, induction programs, and supervision for new and existing team members.
- Quality Assurance: Review clinical reports, offer constructive feedback, and maintain best practice standards.
- On-the-Ground Support: Attend appointments alongside your Occupational Therapists to provide hands-on assistance and training.
- Clinical Excellence: Undertake assessments and interventions for NDIS clients (reduced caseload), writing reports and management plans.
- Holistic Environments: Work across family homes, group homes, day programs, schools, the community, and local offices.
- Resources to support working from home
- Minimisation of excessive travel
- Ownership of your own calendar to schedule appointments in line with your lifestyle
- Suburban office locations with free onsite or local parking
- Part-time, reduced hours, or compressed nine-day fortnights (after probation)
- One additional week of annual leave per year after three years of service
- Expert Support: A dedicated team of discipline-specific specialists, each with 20+ years of clinical Occupational Therapy experience. Get one-on-one and group training sessions plus round-the-clock advice.
- Interdisciplinary Training: Take part in live or recorded internal professional development sessions, including Special Interest Groups, discipline-specific in-services, and multi-disciplinary in-services.
- Career Pathways: Explore clinical specialisations or even step into other areas such as Positive Behaviour Support or Rehabilitation Consulting. Regional or interstate secondments and people-management pathways are also available. Work closely with your Manager and Learning & Development Manager to chart a course for your career ambitions.
- Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy
- Full AHPRA registration
- Unrestricted Australian Working Rights
- 3 years minimum postgraduate experience
Apply now or email your resume to Jem Melcher (Allied Health Division) to [email protected] or call +61 468 760 842 to hear more about the role.
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Required skills
- part-time
- flexibility
- clinical excellence
- quality assurance
- ndis
- team leader
- annual leave
- manager
- positive behaviour support
- professional development
- occupational therapist
- newcastle
- ahpra
- career pathways
- work-life balance
- australian working rights
- ot
- gorilla jobs
- occupational therapy
- super
- tertiary qualification
- learning & development
- probation
- wfh
- resume writing
- negotiation of terms
- resume
- interview preparation
- postgraduate experience
- expert support
- special interest groups
- east maitland
- reduced hours
- rehabilitation consulting
- allied health division
- jem melcher
- career ambitions
- on-the-ground support
- holistic environments
- interdisciplinary training
- career specialisations
- regional secondments
- interstate secondments
- people-management pathways
- discipline-specific in-services
- multi-disciplinary in-services
- round-the-clock advice
- one-on-one training sessions
- group training sessions
- free onsite or local parking
- suburban office locations
- compressed nine-day fortnights
- additional week of annual leave
- three years of service
- learning & development manager
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