Graduate Occupational Therapist in Maitland

Receive Daily Supervision & Training from Experienced Clinicians

Learn Alongside Other Graduates In a Fun, Supportive Setting

Service a Diverse Adult Caseload in the Clinic & Community

How Our Grad Program Will Empower Your Future

We believe that when you choose us for your Graduate role, you are entrusting us with teaching you the core skills that will form the foundation for an amazing career to come. With this in mind, we've set out a structured, comprehensive 12-month plan:

• You will start with a classroom style orientation so you can meet your team, play around with your new laptop and our online database and do some pre-reading and training modules.
• We then take you out to ridealong with your supervisor so you can observe and ask questions.
• Your supervisor will then begin shadowing your sessions, letting you take the reins and providing updates so that you'll feel confident when you begin seeing clients independently.
• Throughout your Graduate Program you will receive different forms of daily and weekly supervision and support varying from one on one time to group sessions.
• You can access additional training content anytime via our online resource library.
• You'll attend multi-disciplinary meetings and enjoy opportunities for collaboration as you share clients with other disciplines such as Physio, Psych or Exercise Physiology.
• One of the best days of the year is our companywide annual training day where the entire business comes together to learn from external presenters tailored to each discipline.
• If you find you're particularly passionate about a certain area, we have pathways to clinical specialisation such as home mods, AT or Mental health.

Your first year is all about building a solid broad base of clinical knowledge and then we can set new goals with you once you are settled in. You've worked hard to get to this point so we need to have some fun at work too:

• We have an ongoing wellbeing program that involves monthly social events.
• You will celebrate your milestones in your Grad program with a Graduate celebration at your 12-month mark.

To allow you more time to focus on clinical work, you'll have someone allocated to you in our admin team to assist with booking client appointments for you and assisting with admin tasks.

Your travel is reimbursed at $1.01/km and you also receive phone/data and laundry allowances. Novated leasing options are available. Professional indemnity and public liability insurance covered for you. Ability to transfer between offices if you move one day. Discounted Health Insurance for you and your family plus other everyday savings on your Energy Bill, online shopping, groceries, petrol and more. An Employee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support.

The Role

As a community-based team, we predominantly see our clients in their homes, group homes, aged care facilities or in a public setting that's relevant for them. We want to see our clients where they are most comfortable and that's relevant to their goals. Some of our team schedule a full day of seeing 3 or 4 clients one day, then balance this the next by working from home or having an office day to write reports, prepare resources, have supervision/training. Or you can mix things up and split your day depending on how you like to work!

A community role is great as it allows you to have genuine flexibility and control over how you structure your days and therefore you don't miss your afternoon sport or having the social life you've sacrificed whilst studying!

You will gain lots of variety in this role as you service a predominantly adult, NDIS & DVA caseload (12 yrs old and up) living with:

• Developmental disabilities (autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, Down syndrome)
• Neurological conditions (stroke, acquired brain injury, brain tumour, multiple sclerosis)
• Degenerative diseases (Parkinson’s disease, MS, motor neurone disease, Huntington’s disease, dementia)

In your Grad Program you will:

• Support clients with a range of tasks such as life skills - budgeting/shopping/travel/cooking, pressure care, sensory, cognitive re-training, prescribing equipment and assistive tech, upper limb + fine & gross motor therapy plus home assessments and modifications.
• You'll sharpen your clinical reasoning and get really good at completing comprehensive assessments and reporting.

Along with having the freedom to work from home, we have clinics in Toronto and Maitland so you can have a home base to work from. Depending on where you live we'll ensure you see clients in your area and you can also choose to use the office for appointments, to write reports and spend time with your Supervisor and hang out with other new Grads!

How We Make an Impact

Recovery Station provides community and clinic based allied health services, with a strong focus on disability and senior health. For over 20 years we have grown and now proudly offer services in the community across Sydney, the Hunter, Central Coast, Tamworth and nationally via telepractice. Together, our passionate multidisciplinary team collaboratively share their knowledge and experience to holistically design an individualised service to help improve the quality of life for people living with a disability or looking to age as independently as possible.

Be Part of Something Bigger

We have limited positions still remaining for our 2027 graduate program working from either our Maitland, Toronto or Erina Hubs. If we haven't covered something that’s important to you, reach out via our website and we'll be happy to tell you more!