Application Close: 16/12/2024
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working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Hawkesbury District Health Service is a teaching hospital in Windsor NSW, providing acute, community and allied health services for the local community and surrounding districts. The service provides 24-hour emergency, medical, surgical, diagnostic, maternity, neonatal, paediatric, palliative, intensive and coronary care services.
Join our fantastic small team of Occupational Therapists to manage a clinical caseload and drive professional growth in a supportive and multidisciplinary environment. Your role as the Occupational Therapist will provide a high-quality Occupational Therapy (OT) service to clients and carers to ensure optimal health outcomes for the clients of the service.
As the successful incumbent, you will be expected to maintain daily activity reporting in the designated system for the service and work within risk management, safety, infection control and quality frameworks applicable to the organisation. This assignment may require you to work in a variety of Hawkesbury District Hospital clinical areas to meet service demands and/or within a rotation roster pattern within the OT Department.
If this sounds like the next step in your career, we invite you to Apply Today!
Benefits available to eligible NBMLHDemployees
- Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
- Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
NBMLHDis committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.
For assistance with applying through the NSW Health Career Portal pleaseclick here.
What you will bring to the role:
- Current registration to practice as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board AHPRA, and current class C NSW drivers licence or equivalent.
- Demonstrated clinical experience and ability to provide occupational therapy assessment and intervention in a variety of clinical areas including acute inpatient setting (Medical / Surgical / Aged Care) and sub-acute rehabilitation setting.
- Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision, including ability to manage routine clinical matters with minimal supervision
- Demonstrated skills in written and verbal communication with consumers, teams and agencies, with experience in clinical documentation, formal reporting and clinical handover.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Demonstrated high level of effective organisational and time management skills
- Demonstrated experience in the use of relevant evidence based practice resources to guide decision- making and commitment to quality improvement.
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
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For role related queries or questions contact Melanie Calnan on Melanie.Calnan@health.nsw.gov.au
