Occupational Therapist

Salary range: from $65,000 per annum

Duties & Responsibilities:

Providing services to clients in Aged Care facilities, including but not limited to:

  • Attend to onsite referrals in a timely manner, and complete follow-up for referrals as required.
  • Complete evidence-based Functional Allied Health Assessments for all new permanent residents within the required timeframe.
  • Direct pain treatments and input into numerous other areas of a resident’s care, including but not limited to actives of daily living, mobility and transfers, pain management, oedema and arthritic joint management and skin integrity management.
  • Undertake pain management treatment, providing residents with quality hands on time and utilizing treatments techniques such as therapeutic massage, TENs machines, and specific exercises.
  • Conduct ongoing, scheduled and regular reviews of resident’s care, their goals, mobility, pain management and falls risk and safety interventions; and maintaining an up to date record of these resident reviews.
  • Documentation completed with appropriate terminology and understandability to enable utilization for:
    • appropriate care for residents by care staff
    • appropriate care planning for other areas of resident’s care.
  • Maintain organized, easily accessible and accurate documentation of pain treatment records.

Providing services to private clients, including by not limited to:

  • Completing Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assessments for clients in accordance with all applicable professional body.
  • Undertaking home environment assessments, including home modification assessments recommendations and scaled drawings
  • Administering upper limb therapy as required
  • Providing advice and retraining on functional tasks
  • Providing manual handling and education training for carers and family members
  • Consulting with site staff, doctors, client, family and other care professionals to develop client care plans, goals, nature of interventions and plan for review
  • Working collaboratively with site staff, doctors and other care professionals to ensure implementation of the clients care plans
  • Regularly reviewing client outcomes and make any necessary changes to align with client goals
  • Documenting each client treatment and general care in clinical notes as per company guidelines

Essential Skills:

  • Bachelor degree in Occupational Therapy.
  • Relevant overseas registration.
  • Australian Occupational Therapy Council Stage 1 assessment.
  • At least 2 years of post-qualification experience.

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