At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and deliver high-quality Occupational Therapy services to improve clients' lives.
- Company: Join Right at Home, Australia's leading home care provider.
- Benefits: Flexible hours, competitive pay, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Be part of an exciting new Allied Health team focused on wellness.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the community while growing your career.
- Qualifications: AHPRA registration and 3+ years clinical experience required.
The predicted salary is between 72000 - 88000 $ per year.
Welcome to Right at Home’s Job Opportunities. Right at Home has a mission to ‘improve the quality of life for those we serve’. We do this by choosing the Right People™, to deliver the Right Services™ with the Right Approach™. To continue this unwavering standard of quality care, we look for people who build our culture, who are sensitive and adaptable to clients’ different personalities, cultural backgrounds, and home dynamics, and who align with our values of flexibility, approachability, accountability, collaboration and integrity.
Benefits of Becoming a Right at Home Caregiver, Nurse, or Allied Health Practitioner include:
- Flexibility and work security
- A sense of belonging to a local office
- Support from a national team, meaning less travel and more client interaction
- Focus on career development with mentoring by experienced professionals
- Competitive pay and a reward and recognition program
Right About You!™ is our employee recognition, wellbeing, and discounts program that recognises and supports Right at Home employees. It helps our workforce save money every day, with discounts at over 400 Australian and international retailers. Employees can also access a wellbeing portal for tips and tricks on maintaining a healthy balance in their life.
Right at Home is Australia’s leading quality home care provider, caring for seniors, adults living with a disability and adults recovering from a hospital stay. We offer careers for Certificate III Companion Care Level Caregivers right through to Registered Nurses and Allied Health Professionals including physiotherapists and OTs who provide complex medical and wellbeing support to clients.
As a Right at Home caregiver, nurse, or allied health practitioner, our mission of ‘improving the quality of life for those we serve’ becomes your mission, too.
We’re launching our brand-new Allied Health and Day Respite Services, bringing together a passionate team focused on wellness, reablement, independence and helping older Australians live their best lives at home and in their community. We’re looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and people-focused Senior Occupational Therapist to join us.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead and grow the development and delivery of Occupational Therapy services within the community
- Help establish and build a high-performing, passionate Allied Health team
- Deliver evidence-based, person-centred therapy in clients’ homes and community settings
- Champion wellness and reablement, helping clients maintain independence, confidence and quality of life
- Conduct functional, mobility and home safety assessments
- Recommend and facilitate assistive equipment, home modifications and practical strategies to support safe and independent living
- Collaborate with nurses, care partners and other health professionals to achieve great outcomes for our clients
- Bring your ideas and contribute to service innovation, quality improvement and best-practice care
- Travel across our service regions as required
Why Work with Us?
- Make a real difference in the community
- Help build something new
- Grow your career
- Flexibility that fits your life
Qualifications:
- Current AHPRA registration as an Occupational Therapist
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Minimum 3 years clinical experience (community, rehabilitation or aged care experience highly regarded)
- Demonstrated passion for wellness, restorative care and reablement
- Strong leadership, mentoring and team development skills
- Commitment to delivering person-centred, high-quality care
- Current driver’s licence and willingness to travel
- Current national police check (completed in the last 12 months)
- Current first aid and CPR
- Relevant aged care healthcare compliance documentation
Preferred Skills:
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities
- Relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills
- Sound clinical reasoning, problem-solving and critical thinking
- High attention to detail and documentation accuracy
- Confident using technology and clinical systems
- Understanding of aged care standard, compliance and ethical practice
- Genuine commitment to client-centred care and positive ageing
Occupational Therapist – Rockhampton employer: Right at Home
Right at Home Gold Coast South is an exceptional employer that prioritises community engagement and personal growth. With a strong focus on building relationships and driving meaningful outcomes, employees enjoy a supportive work culture that encourages autonomy and initiative. Located in Bundall, this role offers the unique opportunity to make a tangible difference in the lives of seniors and families while developing a robust professional network across the beautiful Gold Coast region.
