Employment Type: Permanent Full-Time (job share options may be considered)
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 am to 4 30 pm.
Salary: OT Grade 3 + Super + Salary Packaging
Location: Werribee Mercy Hospital
Upload with Application: Resume, cover letter, and all relevant qualifications
Contact: Umesh Baskaran ( ubaskaran@mercy.com.au)
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For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people when they need it most. Our people feel great pride in this, and they value the security and stability we offer. But it also means so much opportunity - to build on all that’s gone before, to grow your impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.
As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you’ll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that’s hard to find elsewhere.
At Mercy Health, it’s all about taking what we have and making it better.
To do that, we need you.
Join us as at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.
About the opportunity
The Occupational Therapy department at WMH offers a supportive environment that promotes a culture of learning and development, with various opportunities for career progression. The friendly WMH OT teams consists of 28 dedicated clinicians who provide referral based holistic care to the emergency department, short stay unit, acute, subacute, community (Health Independence Program, Commonwealth Home Support Program & Support at Home) and outpatient hand therapy clients.
As a Grade 3 Occupational Therapist (Senior Clinician), you will provide safe, evidence‑based clinical leadership and support across the subacute setting. You will play a key role in the delivery and oversight of therapy programs, functional interventions, and patient‑centred care that promote independence, safety, and overall wellbeing.
A Grade 3 OT will be responsible for ensuring high‑quality service delivery, including assessment, intervention planning, and evaluation of outcomes. In this role, you will also provide supervision, guidance, and support to junior Occupational Therapy staff, fostering professional development and maintaining clinical standards within the team.
In addition to clinical responsibilities, the role will contribute to the effective operation of the department through leadership in quality improvement initiatives, resource development and coordination, and maintaining well‑organised and safe therapy environments.
What you’ll bring
You’re resilient, compassionate and have a whole lot of heart. Most importantly, you are committed to delivering exceptional patient-centred care.
To thrive in this role, you will have:
You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:
Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?
Join us and make a meaningful difference in people’s lives - and your career.
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The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We’re proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.
Mercy Health is a Catholic organisation grounded in a 2,000-year tradition of caring for others. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, Mercy Health now provides acute and sub-acute hospital care, aged care, mental health programs, maternity and specialist women’s health services, early parenting services, home care services and health worker training and development.
Our people are the foundation of Mercy Health. For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every age and every stage of life. With over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we’re offering more services than ever before and ensuring better outcomes for our patients, clients and communities.
At Mercy Health, you’ll work alongside 10,000+ amazing people from many different walks of life. You’ll find we’re united by our shared purpose, but we also value what makes us different. That means whatever your background, religious beliefs or gender identity, you are welcome here.
So, join us, and help us better meet the needs of our diverse clients and patients.
