Senior Occupational Therapist, Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic - Surry Hills - PPT 24hpw
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- Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network
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- REQ590366 Requisition #
Position Classification: Occupational Therapist Lvl 5
Remuneration: $130,658 - 133,835 p.a (full time salary) plus superannuation
Location: Surry Hills
Requisition ID: REQ590366
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 Treatment and Rehabilitation Clinic (TRC) is one of three services within the NSW Community Forensic Mental Health Service (CFMHS). The TRC adopts a multi-disciplinary, collaborative model of care focused on recovery, rehabilitation, and community safety. It provides evidence-based biopsychosocial treatment and rehabilitation services to support people in achieving recovery from complex disorders that result in problematic behaviours including offending.
The TRC is a community-based clinic but will also provide initial prison in-reach services to support future clinic patients, to optimise safety and treatment success. The initial focus of the service will be the provision of evidence-based assessment and treatment for problem sexual behaviours. In the longer term, the clinic will also focus on other problem behaviours.
The Senior Occupational Therapist TRC is primarily responsible for delivering specialist forensic mental health care, which considers peoples' clinical, psychosocial, occupational and risk vulnerabilities while applying best practice clinical tools. The Senior Occupational Therapist will provide specialist assessment, formulation and intervention concerning occupational performance and engagement to people presenting with problem behaviours. Interventions will be provided individually, in groups, and via virtual health/telehealth as needed. The Senior Occupational Therapist will assist in the development and evaluation of therapeutic programs and provide supervision, consultation and training to other occupational therapists or allied health staff within the organisation. The Senior Occupational Therapist will work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team and will also engage with other treating teams and key stakeholders to optimise a patient’s occupational functioning, treatment and recovery, and build capacity to manage problem behaviours.
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Demonstrated extensive experience in forensic mental health practice, specifically risk assessment, management and treatment of problematic behaviours.
- Demonstrated extensive experience in providing clinical supervision and/or training.
Salary & Benefits
Your salary $130,658 - 133,835 p.a (full time salary) plus superannuation and leave loading is just the beginning.
You’ll have access to:
· Additional allowances of up to $4 per hour may be applicable
· Eligibility for Fitness Passport, Salary Packaging, and Novated Leasing options.
· Genuine training, education, professional development, and career progression opportunities.
· Support from a passionate & enthusiastic management team.
Diversity & Inclusivity
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We employ all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, and people with disability. Simply put, we put emphasis on your capability and your passion.
READY TO APPLY?
The first step is to submit your resume and answers to the following questions:
- A bachelor degree or post graduate qualification in occupational therapy with full registration with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (AHPRA). Minimum of five years full time equivalent post registration experience, with at least two years full time equivalent experience in the field of forensic mental health.
- Demonstrated specialist skills in forensic mental health care, including experience providing treatment to specifically address problematic behaviours in adults with mental illness, complex risk and clinical needs; and promoting occupational enrichment; and demonstrated experience with administering evidence-based clinical tools to identify and manage clinical risks and protective factors that reduce poor health and criminal justice outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team; provide specialist consultation to and develop and maintain effective partnerships with, a range of key health and corrective services stakeholders.
- Proven experience in effective written and verbal communication (including comprehensive occupational therapy assessment/treatment reports) that demonstrates a capacity for objectivity, therapeutic optimism, cultural sensitivity, and recovery orientation - and the ability to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently with minimum direct clinical supervision, yet proactively seek support; demonstrated ability to provide clinical supervision to less experienced clinicians or students in order to build capacity; mentoring and development of junior staff and students.
- Highly developed self-leadership skills including high degree of motivation; ability to work to tight deadlines and under scrutiny from other agencies; high level of organisational skills; ability to work autonomously but also as a team member; and to show empathy yet encourage others to enhance their practice by providing education and training in forensic mental health practice.
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation including Mental Health Act 2007, Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020, Crimes Act 1900, Crimes (High Risk Offender) Act 2006 as well as other relevant legislation, i.e. Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998, Trustee & Guardianship Act 2009.
- Hold current NSW Driver’s License and willingness to travel for work purposes.
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For role related queries or questions contact Kathleen Harle on kate.harle@health.nsw.gov.au
Applications Close: Thursday 7th August 2025 11:59pm
