Your role at St John of God Murdoch Hospital
We are seeking applications from Senior Occupational Therapists to join our SJG Murdoch team on a casual roster. As a Senior Occupational Therapist – Grade 2, depending on your experience, you'll join a collaborative multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality, client-centred occupational therapy services that empower people to achieve their goals and maintain independence.
This senior role offers the opportunity to apply your specialist clinical expertise, work independently, and influence best practice across the service. You'll also play a key role in mentoring and developing junior clinicians, supervising students, and contributing to education, quality improvement, and research initiatives that shape the future of care.
This position will be offered on a casual basis, working as required depending on caseload, Monday to Friday.
The Position
Provide clinical services to client/patient groups and circumstances of a complex nature requiring advanced Occupational Therapy practice skills.
Be responsible for completing appropriate administrative duties. This requires liaison with the administration team, reporting of statistical data and completion of clinical documentation.
Monitor Patient/client plans and outcomes regularly through attendance at, and participation in clinical team meetings as required.
Active participation in the multidisciplinary team.
Initiate referrals to external agencies in a timely manner.
Uses an evidence-based, problem-solving approach to clinical care and service development.
Promote professional values and ethics in clinical practice.
Demonstrate consolidated, current knowledge of research, evidence-based practice in Occupational Therapy and related clinical areas.
Acts as a clinical consultant for the discipline and within the specialty.
You will have demonstrated knowledge and skills in assessment, treatment and evaluation within Occupational Therapy practice. With demonstrated effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills you will also have the ability to communicate using technology.
To succeed you will hold a Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy and registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). Having previously worked in an Acute Hospital care setting you will have demonstrated ability to work independently and within a multi-disciplinary team. A Current C Class Drivers Licence is essential to the role. Those with a relevant post entry Master's Degree and eligible for Medicare Provider number will be highly regarded though not mandatory for the role.
Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.
We can offer you
Casual Rate: $82.55 to $88.02 per hour (inclusive of casual loading) plus 12% superannuation
Casual position working as required, depending on case load, Monday to Friday.
As a casual employee, you can salary package a percentage of your earnings each pay period on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses
A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options & well-being programs
Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance
Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Innovative Professional Development opportunities
All applicants are asked to submit a CV and covering letter (of no more than two (2) pages) demonstrating how you meet the above position requirements.
For enquiries contact Ellen Feeney, Allied Health Manager, on (08) 9438 9000.
Applications will be reviewed throughout the advertising period and interviews conducted regularly. If suitable applicants are identified advertisement may close prior to listed date. Apply today!
If we identify a surplus of suitable candidates for this role, you may also be invited to a candidate talent pool list where you could be offered an alternative position.
At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.
Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.
Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.
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.
