Key Worker

2 days ago


Dandenong, Australia ORS Full time

**The Role**:
**As a Key Worker - Early Childhood Support your duties will include**:

- Working with families and children to develop and prioritise their goals using a routines-based approach
- Providing support to families that reflects a strengths-based and family-centred approach with a focus on improving the child and family quality of life
- Providing evidence-based support to address children’s goals across all areas of development e.g. communication, play, mobility, feeding, self-care activities, sensory processing, relationships with peers, feelings and behaviours, problem-solving and learning
- Working to develop the capacity of the adults supporting the child
- Coordinating support required from other disciplines. This could look like a quick question for another therapist, a joint visit with a consulting therapist, a therapy block with another therapist to address that specialist area or a referral to another division for ongoing support.
- Supporting the inclusion and participation of children within their families and communities
- Providing consultative support to other Key Workers specific to your discipline/ background

**Work Life Balance**:
At ORS we genuinely believe in the importance of a healthy work life balance & the benefits it can provide. Many of us have young families and lead busy lives outside of work so we know how important it is for our staff to maintain a balanced lifestyle. For this reason we:

- Provide the resources for our staff to be able to work from home
- Aim to allocate clients close to your home
- Give you ownership of your own calendar so you can book appointments to suit your schedule
- Provide suburban office locations with free onsite & local parking
- Give you the ability to work part time or reduced hours

**Career Pathways at ORS**:
ORS is an organisation that takes pride in developing our employees into their career pathway of choice. Whether that be regional or interstate secondments, people management, specialisation in a particular interest area such as paediatrics, home modifications or mental health and opportunities to try other clinical disciplines such as Positive Behaviour Support or Rehabilitation Consulting. The opportunities are endless and extensive You will work closely with your Manager and Learning & Development Manager to create a plan achieve these goals.

**Role requirements**:
**Early Childhood Supports Key Workers **must have considerable experience working with paediatric clients, a true passion for delivering paediatric clinical services and must have one of the following qualifications & industry registrations:

- ** Developmental Educator** - A person who has a bachelor’s degree or higher and has current full membership with Developmental Educators Australia Inc.
- ** Early Childhood Teacher or Educator** - A person who has a bachelor’s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education or Special Education, who where applicable has a current registration or accreditation with their state or territory’s relevant professional body.
- ** Occupational Therapist** - A person who has a current Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Registration as an Occupational Therapist.
- ** Social Worker **- A person who is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
- ** Speech Pathologist** - A person who is a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist as approved by Speech Pathology Australia.
- ** Physiotherapist** - A person who has a current AHPRA Registration as a Physiotherapist.
- ** Psychologist** - A person who has a current AHPRA Registration as a Psychologist.
- ** Counsellor** - A person who is either a member of the Australian Counselling Association or an accredited Registrant with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia.
- ** Exercise Physiologist** - A person who is an Accredited Exercise Physiologist with Exercise and Sports Science Australia.
- ** Other Professional** - A person who is not one of the types of professionals listed above but who has a Bachelor’s degree or higher in their relevant area and holds current registration or membership with their relevant registration and or professional body.

**About ORS**:
We are one of the largest and fastest growing family owned and operated national allied health and workplace rehabilitation providers in Australia, with a proven track record and reputation for providing high quality evidence-based, and client-centred services for over 30 years

Due to our incredible culture, passion for excellence, stability, and gratitude for being able to see the potential and recognise the strengths of every individual it’s easy to see why our workforce has grown 1200% in 4 years and why we are the allied health services provider of choice

For further information on ORS Group, we encourage you to visit our website to read more about our extensive services, our detailed employee profiles, video library & company values.

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