▷ (21/10/2025) Occupational Therapist Team Leader

Flexibility to work across various sites:

- Templestowe Lower
- Craigieburn
- Thomastown

Qualifications

AHPRA registration

Membership with professional body

Working with Children Check

Victorian Police Check

Experience in your field (preferred but not essential)

Contact Officer

Nav Ahmad-Khan - Head of Allied Health

Office: 03-9013 5987

Working Hours

- Full time OR Part time options available.
- We are open from 8AM to 8PM Monday to Friday & 8AM to 6PM on Saturday
- You are able to select the working hours that suit you best

About Soaring Health

Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 4 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Health care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.

Complete autonomy with calendar and bookings

Working within a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated front-end team

Work-life balance

What you will do:

In addition to the Senior OT roles & responsibilities:

Therapeutic use of occupations and activities, including therapeutic use of self (including one’s personality, insights, perceptions, and judgments, as part of the therapeutic process)

Skill development in self-care, self-management, home management, and community/work/school reintegration

Education and support of individuals, including family members, caregivers, and others, through collaborative and consultative partnerships and family-centered approaches

Care coordination, case management, transition services including discharge planning, client advocacy and onward referral to relevant services

Modification of environments (e.g., home, work, school, community) and adaptation of processes, including the application of ergonomic principles

Assessment, customisation, and oversight of equipment provision including orthotic devices, and training in the use of prosthetic devices

Use of natural contexts for assessment and intervention (i.e. home, school classrooms, work settings, community)

Use of a range of specific therapeutic procedures to enhance performance such as wound care management, techniques to enhance sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processing, and manual therapy technique skills

Taking on more clients of a greater variety

Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently

Be able to effectively supervise AHA students in clinic

Give opportunity to new grads to observe

Be a buddy for new grad OTs

Participate in MDT training and workshops

Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas

Taking on more COMPLEX clients

Provide mentoring and supervision for OT and new grad OTs

You will also be responsible for:

Implementing and maintaining clinical guidelines with OT team.

Ensure the team is meeting NDIS quality and practice guidelines.

Ensuring early childhood practice guidelines are implemented and being met where necessary.

Management of KPIs for all staff in the team as well as team performance

Reporting to Head of Allied Health with results of KPIs and training

Taking on very complex and serious cases where seniors are unable to

Resource management and budget allocation

Team management - clinical and staff support duties:

How we will support you:

Dedicated admin team

Dedicated HR and finance team to look after all admin affairs

Dedicated team leaders and team manager in each department

Fully stocked clinics with resources

Ability to have resource packs made up to travel within the community

Back-end processes in place to make daily work easier

Dedicated internal/external supervision and mentoring as well as PD

Opportunities for observation of more experienced/ specialized staff across disciplines

What's in it for you:

Advancement of clinical knowledge

Working with preferred caseload and client types

Regular mentoring and supervision

Team specific meetings and support

In-house PD at no cost (Over 40 PD hours per year)

More benefits:

Access to a work car for community and remote work

Paid travel for community work

Paid PD leave

PD budget per calendar year

Paid staff meetings and professional development in-house

Access for work vehicle and work-related travel coverage

Access to gym and swim facilities at our sites located inside leisure centres

Let your career soar at Soaring Health

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Soaring Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which our services are located. We honour the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay our respects to all Elders, past and present.

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