Rehabilitation Consultant (Occupational Therapist)

This is a unique opportunity! Acumen is the only rehabilitation service provider to ADF personnel. Your rewards are truly meaningful and purposeful. Be part of a team that gets our military fully fit and ready to defend and protect Australia. Taking a more holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing.

• Taking a more holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support your clients journey from rehab to healing;
• Using a client-centred approach, develop, implement and monitor rehabilitation plans. Provide ongoing care and communication as you support your client return to the same job or obtain new employment;
• Perform a variety of assessments including ADL’s, functional capacity evaluations, worksite, and ergonomic assessments;
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including the employee who has suffered injury, illness, or trauma, medical specialists, and other treatment providers;
• Report writing, reviewing medical files and maintaining case notes through high quality case management;
• Support a dual customer caseload – Mainly current members of our ADF and some DVA.

Work location may vary between the Acumen office and customer worksite (local ADF bases) with some work from home options.

What will make you successful:

• Current unrestricted registration or membership with AHPRA
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy
• Clinical reasoning
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
• Passion to help people rehabilitate
• Experience in occupational rehabilitation and working with military would be highly regarded

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen Health delivers the highest standard in services across personal injury and occupational health. The team at Acumen Health focus on recovery and function to get clients back to work and back to life whatever their age, stage, or situation. Our personal injury division provides services through federal and state-based Workers Compensations, Motor Accident Schemes and Life Insurance.

Joining the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of almost 16,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services.  

Ready to join?

Click APPLY now and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 or connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawhinney

We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. We welcome all people to join our team, including people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, Veterans, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity. We believe each person’s uniqueness makes us even better at the work we do.

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