Job Description

ORS are seeking skilled Psychologists who are passionate about helping workers return to work after illness or injury.

Our Workplace Rehabilitation & Health team have experienced tremendous growth in the last 3 months and we have tremendous opportunities available for AHPRA registered Psychologists to join our team in Sydney. You can choose from three office locations - Mew Lambton, Maitland or Gosford with free onsite parking at each. ORS employs over 200 Psychologists across Australia including over 70 Provisional Psychologists receiving full primary & secondary Supervision.

As a member of the Workplace Rehabilitation and Health team you have opportunities to:

• Be responsible for providing specialist psychological recovery and rehabilitation services to workers/employees with psychological illness or injuries.
• Administer evidence-based psychological assessments of workers' strengths as well as their perceived obstacles to returning to work including relevant psychometric and vocational inventory testing and result interpretation.
• Learn to apply all new evidence based practices that increase successful return to work outcomes and understand stakeholder needs and circumstances without bias, low expectations, or implied judgements.
• Establish new interventions such as forming a rehabilitation alliance, motivational interviewing for resolving ambivalence, assessing jobs and workplaces, reviewing and redesigning job demands, mediation, and measuring productivity.
• Support a manageable caseload of workers for whose outcomes you are primarily responsible.
• Provide discipline specific services, i.e. psychological functional assessments, to other workers when appropriate.
• Work within an experienced multidisciplinary and psychological team of similarly passionate professionals facilitating return to work across several contracts utilising psychological skills to maximise return to work goal attainments.
• Oversee and coordinate workers' health treatment to ensure it is evidence-based and supports timely return to work or better productivity.
• Become known as a trusted psychological service provider, highly effective, and always available and willing to communicate appropriately with other key stakeholders.

What We Can Offer:

• Fully funded Primary & Secondary Supervision for Provisional Psychologists.
• Flexible working arrangements aligned to your lifestyle, including options for working from home, 9 day fortnights and part-time roles.
• Autonomy over your calendar with client appointments allocated near your location.
• Suburban office locations with free onsite or local parking.
• A tailored six-month Graduate Program offering mentoring, training, and reduced caseloads for new graduates.

Who You Are:

• Tertiary qualifications in Psychology, with Provisional or General Registration with AHPRA
• Have a vehicle and a current driver’s licence.
• Willing to obtain or already hold a National Police Clearance, Working With Children/Vulnerable People Check, and NDIS Worker Screening Clearance for client-facing roles.

Who We Are:

ORS is one of Australia’s fastest-growing family-owned allied health and workplace rehabilitation providers. For over 30 years, we’ve been committed to offering client-centred services, and the best industry wide practices. We’re proud of the incredible growth and success of our team. The changing environment in Australia now requires even more of us. We need staff members willing to learn and adopt the latest most promising evidence-based practices. Introducing new practices in this industry can be challenging, but must be provider-led. Passionate staff are therefore needed to acquire the knowledge and skills in using those practices to further advocate for, and implement these in every applicable contract.

With our inclusive culture, focus on employee well-being, dedication to professional development, and to the introduction of evidence-based practices, ORS is an ideal place for passionate allied health professionals to thrive.

Join us in transforming working lives and shaping the future of occupational rehabilitation across Australia.

Apply now or contact Chris Galvin for a confidential conversation on 0477 010 235 or Chris.Galvin@orsgroup.com.au

The ORS Group is a multicultural, diverse, supportive and flexible employer, specifically encouraging applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, working parents, LGBTQIA+ and people with disabilities.