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Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan
Job type: Casual
Organisation: Austin Health
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 50633
Grade 3 Occupational Therapist or Grade 3 Allied Health Interdisciplinary Practitioner (Casual)
Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. 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:
The Austin Health OT department is a vibrant and fast paced environment. The department forms part of the Division of Allied Health, which comprises the following services:
About Better@Home
The Better@Home service is an initiative that aims to deliver more healthcare within the patient’s home, the program facilitates home-based interdisciplinary service 7 days a week, that is goal-focused and time-limited. Patients are admitted to the program from any of the three Austin Health sites. The program has a grade 4 allied health team lead as well as a multidisciplinary team comprising nursing, medical and allied health professionals.
About the Role:
The Grade 3 will be recognised as a clinical specialist in a relevant area of practice with consolidated skills in client-centred assessment, intervention and complex discharge. The grade 3 clinician provides expert patient care as part of a multidisciplinary team and is expected to act as a leader for the wider MDT to support the delivery of excellent patient care.? ???
The Grade 3 clinician will support effective service delivery through appropriate resource allocation, the use of workload management tools and collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
About you
You will be someone who is a skilled leader and excels in collaborative problem-solving. You have expertise developing junior staff and students and inspiring others to live the Austin Health values. You are someone who strives for excellence in service delivery and is always growing your knowledge and expertise. You can work flexibly and autonomously in the ever-evolving health setting, and you have a passion for being the best OT you can be.
You’ll further have:
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:
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 or Torres Strait Islander, physically or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, 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, please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager.
Casual
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