Senior Occupational Therapist (Lvl 3) – Community Transitions Team (CTT) - PFT - Olympic Park

Position Title: Senior Occupational Therapist - Community Transitions Team

Just the place to grow your career and be part of a valued team delivering care where it's needed most!

If you're passionate about delivering healthcare with the greatest impact, then come and join us at Justice Health NSW. Be part of a supportive environment, where you can apply your skills to address complex healthcare needs while broadening your treatment capabilities to maximise patient outcomes.

Justice Health NSW is a challenging yet rewarding place to take your career even further. With industry-leading safety standards, you can focus on doing your best work alongside skilled colleagues while gaining job training to progress your career.

The Role

The Community Transitions Occupational Therapist will support people who experience severe mental illness to access the necessary care and support required to ensure a successful transition from custody to the community. The Community Transitions Occupational Therapist will be part of a multidisciplinary team and works in partnership with the Custodial Mental Health Service, primary health networks, Community Mental Health Services and other government and non-government organisations (NGOs), in a clinical and consultative capacity to ensure continuity of care. By understanding patients’ clinical, psychosocial and behavioural vulnerabilities this role will utilise general case management and discipline specific skills to link patients to relevant services in the community and support their initial reintegration to community care.

The Community Transitions Team is an arm of the Statewide Community Forensic Mental Health Service. The team will be community based, but provide prison in-reach services to support patients’ transitions. Its aim is to develop mental health care plans, establish necessary therapeutic supports for patients, and provide follow-up community care to patients leaving custody. The team will, in turn, promote positive health outcomes and community participation.

Salary & Benefits

Your salary of  $112,396 (Year 1) - $116,038 (Year 2) + super and leave loading is just the beginning. You’ll also have access to:

• Access to salary packaging benefits.
• Fitness passport (if you’re eligible)
• Fantastic training & education opportunities available 

Please note that this is a vaccination category A position, if successful you will need to provide proof of vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, varicella, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and influenza.