Graduate Occupational Therapist

Are you an upcoming or recent OT graduate? Brightwater is excited to open our Occupational Therapist graduate program to new candidates for an upcoming intake this side of 2025

By understanding and knowing each of our New Graduates, we provide personal and professional development, mentoring with clinical experts, and Graduate led initiatives, to ensure our Program is a customised experience

Being a New Graduate in our unique and supportive program, you'll be engaging with clients to help them pursue the dignity of independence, while building the foundations of your new career.

Our Graduate Program provides you with a bespoke and diverse clinical experience, with supervision, mentorship and peer networking so you will:

• Build your professional skills and confidence
• Manage your own caseload and deliver evidence-based assessments and interventions.
• Develop knowledge translation across varied clinical areas.
• Explore the depth and breadth of your profession within the aged care, disability and Acquired Brain Injury rehabilitation sector.

About you

We are seeking amazing people who genuinely want to improve the lives of their clients. You must be:

• A recent Occupational Therapy graduate
• Looking for an authentic, caring, progressive and collaborative team culture.
• A demonstrated team player who is committed to being part of a multidisciplinary team of Allied Health professionals, nurses, therapy assistants, care workers.
• Eligible for registration with AHPRA upon graduation.
• Able to work 4 or 5 days a week.

What's in it for you?

Brightwater cares about your well-being and career development and is a workplace where you will thrive.

As a valued member of the Brightwater 2024 Allied Health New Graduate Program, you will benefit from:

12 or 24 month program – with a permanent, non-rotating position at the end. Choose after 12 months whether to continue in the program or step out into a work area in Brightwater that you want to expand your experience in.

• Rotations through our diverse clinical areas: community aged care, residential aged care, community disability, acquired brain injury rehabilitation.
• Opportunity to nominate which clinical areas you would like to rotate through.
• Supervision and mentoring with senior clinicians.
• Structured, regular new graduate professional development program and peer networking.
• Conducting a meaningful quality improvement project with support.
• Attendance at a conference in the second year of the program.
• Option of working part time.
• Option of starting prior to your AHPRA registration as a therapy assistant.
• 5 weeks leave per year
• 5 days professional development leave per year
• Generous salary packaging and corporate benefits, including a Fitness Passport.

We also have the capacity to bring you on as a Therapy Assistant while you await AHPRA registration.

If you align with our values and are interested in our program, please reach out and apply

About Brightwater

With a track record that dates back to 1901, care is at our core.  We stand beside our clients during times of personal change, using experience and understanding to be the support they need. We're ready for the complexities that come with ageing and disability, including dementia, Huntington's disease, and acquired brain injury.

If you are passionate about helping people pursue the dignity of independence and have a spirit that is caring, authentic, progressive, and courageous, then please read the attached job description for more information on the role, including the selection criteria to address in your cover letter.

Applications should be submitted through Brightwater's online portal by October 25th at 6.00pm; however, Brightwater reserves the right to close this advert before this date.

For confidential enquiries, please phone Zach Ooi – Talent Acquisition Specialist on or email 

At Brightwater, we welcome people with diverse life experiences, thoughts, and beliefs. We foster a culture of inclusion, collaboration, and innovation where our clients and staff can flourish.

Brightwater. Thrive, Connect, Belong.