Senior Occupational Therapist

Are you a motivated and experienced Occupational Therapist who would like a key role in leading and supporting occupational therapists to deliver high quality educational supports to children and students in state schooling? This is your opportunity

As a Senior Occupational Therapist (Supervisory), you will be responsible for providing leadership and clinical supervision to school-based occupational therapists in the delivery of safe, effective high-quality services to support children and students to access and fully participate in their learning in an inclusive education system.

This position is being offered in a Permanent Part-Time capacity (0.20FTE), 15.2 hours per fortnight.

Why this Role?

The following vacancy exists for 2026:

• Central Office (State Wide): Permanent - 0.20FTE

This recruitment process will also be used for future temporary and permanent vacancies in MSR, MNR, and SER within 12 months.

The location of the Central Office (State Wide) position will be negotiated with the successful applicant. Future positions in regions are attached to regional offices in the respective regions. Locations may be negotiable for the successful candidates within each region.

Applications will be held for 12 months, and this recruitment process may be used to fill any subsequent permanent or temporary vacancies in the above regions or Central Office (state wide) within 12 months of the advertised closing date.

Responsibilities include:

• Identify and respond to professional, organisational and personal learning needs of school based occupational therapists through leadership and clinical supervision aligned with the HP4 Senior Occupational Therapy (Supervisory) role description and Clinical Governance Framework
• Direct and support school based occupational therapists, school management teams and regional services in assessing occupational therapy needs, responses and interventions to support student outcomes
• Collaborate with occupational therapy and regional leadership teams to identify and respond to common issues impacting occupational therapy services in education in line with regional departmental priorities through innovative and data driven solutions
• Monitor and report on workload management, wellbeing and performance across occupational therapy services within your region.

The statewide role will have a wider focus. In addition to the above responsibilities, this role will comprise statewide supervisory tasks, including (but not limited to) involvement in planning statewide induction and group supervision, and planning for statewide professional development activities.

About You:

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in providing clinical supervision, capability development or mentoring of other health professionals or undergraduate students, or the ability to rapidly acquire these skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and collaborate with supervisees, senior therapy staff, regional, central and school leadership and teams through effective communication skills.

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Please refer to the attached role description for mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply:

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)

• Attach a two page (maximum) response detailing your capabilities and strengths relating to the role and responsibilities:

• Please include relevant examples from current OT practice, formal and informal mentoring, supervision or support experience, other roles, projects. Please detail your roles, your actions and outcomes achieved.

• Attach a copy of your mandatory qualifications/registration outlined in the attached role description

• Responses to the online questionnaire (the questionnaire will open after you have clicked apply and entered your personal details).

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.