Start Your Career with Aspect Therapy: Make a Real Difference from Day One
Are you an Early Career Occupational Therapist looking for meaningful work, strong clinical support and a clear pathway to grow your skills?
We are currently seeking an Early Career Occupational Therapist to join our Hunter Region team in an itinerant/community-based role. In this position, you will support autistic children, adolescents and adults through community-based therapy services focused on building independence, participation and quality of life.
At Aspect Therapy, you’ll be supported to build confidence in your practice while working collaboratively with autistic people and their families to develop practical, everyday skills that make a genuine difference.
With a structured early careers program, dedicated supervision and strong mentoring, you’ll have everything you need to develop into a confident, capable clinician—while making a meaningful impact from day one.
If you’re passionate about learning, evidence-informed practice and making a difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Salary & Benefits
$81,000 – $120,000 per year FTE (inclusive of super)
Plus additional benefits including:
Early Careers Program & Support
At Aspect, we know that starting your career is a big step—so we’ve built a program to support you every step of the way.
You’ll benefit from:
What You’ll Be Doing
Unlike private practice, you won’t need to source your own clients—we’ll support you to build a sustainable caseload.
What You’ll Bring
Click hereto view the position profile.
Interested? Click “I’m Interested” to submit your details and complete a short candidate questionnaire. Please attach your resume.
Successful candidates will progress through the following stages:
About Aspect
Aspect is Australia’s largest autism-specific service provider, committed to creating a world where Autistic people are recognised, respected and empowered.
We are dedicated to increasing the number of Autistic staff and building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, neurodivergent people, people with disability, LGBTQIA+ individuals and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Learn more about us: www.autismspectrum.org.au
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
