Senior Rehabilitation Consultant

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen (part of the APM Group) delivers the highest standard in services across personal injury and occupational health. The team at Acumen focus on recovery and function to get clients back to work and back to life whatever their age, stage or situation. Our personal injury division provides services through federal and state-based Workers Compensations, Motor Accident Schemes and Life Insurance. There is also an opportunity to provide injury prevention initiatives for various employers by way of manual handling training and creating suitable duties registers to enable meaningful work for injured or unwell employees returning to work.

- Apply your clinical reasoning skills to support people who have sustained a physical and/or psychological injury at work
- Taking a more holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing
- Perform a variety of assessments depending on your area of clinical expertise. This could include functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments
- Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders, including injured employees and employers, medical specialists and other allied health professionals
- Develop, implement and monitor rehabilitation plans. Develop and broaden your skills as you work across a range of schemes ie. Work Cover or Department of Veterans Affairs

A unique opportunity, Acumen is the only rehabilitation service provider to ADF personnel, which will enable you to support our Defence Force personnel who have suffered injury, illness, or trauma. Be part of the team that gets them fully fit and military ready to defend and protect Australia.

Our client base is diverse. You will be exposed to transport, agriculture, government, construction, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and professional services industries.

Enjoy meaningful and purposeful work as you support your client return to the same job or to find a new employment opportunity.

What’s in it for you:

We’ll work with you to TAILOR a career pathway that meets your career goals. We have a variety of working options to fit your needs and will match you to what works best for you.

Joining a high-quality service provider, you will be SUPPORTED and MENTORED through direct interaction and an extensive onboarding process (incl. ongoing shadowing) to build your technical knowledge and expertise and enable your success.

As part of the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of almost 15,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

Enjoy a combination of work from home, office and client sites. Thrive with all the perks of a global conglomerate including discount gym and health insurance plus discounts at hundreds of retail outlets.

What will make you successful:

- Current unrestricted (or eligibility for) registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC)
- Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology or Rehabilitation Counselling
- Strong clinical reasoning
- Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
- Passion to help people rehabilitate
- Experience in occupational rehabilitation will be highly regarded as would experience performing Vocational Assessments

Ready to join?

ClickAPPLYnow and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 or connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawhinney

We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. We welcome all people to join our team, including people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity. We believe each person’s uniqueness makes us even better at the work we do.

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