Mental Health Occupational Therapist

About the role

Roles available now around South West Sydney!

  • Rewarding and Diverse Adult, Community Caseload
  • Flexible Working Hours to Suit Your Lifestyle
  • Ongoing Training, Development & Personalised CPD
  • Specialised Office Support to Assist with Admin & Scheduling

About Recovery Station

We provide community and clinic based allied health services, with a strong focus on disability and senior health. We proudly offer services nationally via telepractice and in the community across Sydney, the Hunter, Central Coast, Illawarra and Melbourne.

We’ve been in the Allied Health industry for nearly 20 years, and you don’t get that sort of longevity without the best of the best employees. We know that when we support our team, it means that they support our clients, which is what we are all about.

Here are some key traits of Recovery Station:

  • We love what we do because everyone’s role contributes to helping our clients live a more independent, empowered life
  • Collaborating with passionate, likeminded colleagues creates connection and facilitates personal and professional growth
  • Keeping personalised care at the heart of what we do challenges us to seek new and innovative ways to deliver life-changing service

Joining Recovery Station means aligning with a company that believes in empowering you and your future. 

Your day-to-day

A clinical position with us is multi-faceted, to help you work in the way that allows you to be your best, whilst also allowing us to see our clients in the capacity that most appropriately matches their needs.

Therefore, your day could start by working from home or in the clinic to do some reports alongside your colleagues, with the afternoon’s spent visiting clients in their homes, group homes or an aged care facility. Or vice versa, if you have kids to drop at school or afternoon sport to get to! Working in a community role allows you to have flexibility and control over structuring your day.

Our team balance working from our Neutral Bay, Blacktown and Liverpool offices with working from home and this role can be either part-time or full-time. Your admin support team will work with you on scheduling appointments efficiently to ensure you aren’t zigzagging around Sydney and you’ll have clients to see close to home.

Day to day you will support your clients to achieve an optimal state of personal, social and emotional wellbeing, as defined by the individual needs of each person. You will achieve this by working with them to identify barriers to optimal functioning through interventions that focus on enhancing existing skills, creating opportunities, promoting wellness, remediating or restoring skills, modifying or adapting the environment or activity, and preventing relapse.

You will be trained to provide trauma informed, person-centred, evidence-based interventions for people in our community experiencing moderate to severe mental health presentations including: acute and chronic psychotic disorders; schizophrenia; bipolar; generalised anxiety; depression; PTSD; alcohol and drug use disorders; mixed anxiety and depression; dissociative (conversion) disorder; sleep problems and OCD.

With our support you will become extremely competent in writing comprehensive reports based on your clinical understanding, conducting clinical assessments and implementing appropriate interventions to address prioritised needs.

 

Here’s how we support you

We strive to provide an environment that allows you to bring what makes you unique and special to work everyday.

  • We value flexibility so you can fit us in around your personal life eg family, sport, other work
  • You deserve remuneration that matches your experience plus the option to stretch for RDO’s and financial bonuses if you choose
  • We trust you to work from home, or in the office, via telehealth and we give you a laptop and pay a phone/ data allowance to support this + laundry allowance and uniform
  • A member of our administrative team will assist you with scheduling your appointments efficiently to minimise travel, to make calls and take messages for you whilst you’re in sessions and to assist with the maintenance of compliance documentation, such as setting up and adjusting funding plans
  • Travel is reimbursed at $0.99/km + tolls and parking at appointments
  • Novated leasing options
  • Discounted Health Insurance for you and your family
  • An Employee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support
  • To celebrate success and bring us together as a team, we have a fun wellbeing program that involves monthly social events such as our Mental Health Olympic Games, cooking and art classes, trivia nights, wheelchair rugby and barefoot bowls

Your Career Development

From a professional development perspective:

  • Your thorough Orientation will be supported by ongoing one on ones with your Supervisor to discuss goals personal to you via a CPD plan. This is when you can chat about what you’d personally like to achieve
  • These will be complimented with team meetings with your fellow OT’s and Psychologists so you can learn during in-services sessions, share ideas, resources and stay abreast of any industry updates
  • Mental health debrief sessions with your team to discuss your week, celebrate wins and share your ideas and feelings in a safe space
  • We love facilitating development pathways for clinicians seeking career progression and added responsibility via either supervising students/ grads/ junior staff, increased complexity of caseload or involvement in management procedures depending on what avenue you’d like to explore
  • Two paid CPD days per annum to be used towards training of your choice
  • Formal and informal liaison opportunities with other members of our MDT to broaden your clinical knowledge and provide holistic care to our clients
  • All-company training day where we bring the entire business together and invite external presenters for each discipline

The next step

If the above resonates with you, we’d love to hear from you! Please complete the details below, or if we haven’t covered something that’s important to you, contact us today on 0493 469 501 or at careers@recoverystation.com.au.

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