Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Transforming Therapy Services opened in 2016 with a mission to create a space and service which provides neuro-affirming and transformative services to clients and their families. We understand development occurs in many ways and within many cultural experiences and seek to provide holistic and family centered occupational therapy, speech pathology and psychotherapy.

As a company we are relationship style and bottom up or inside out based which results in you developing DIR Floor time, Synergetic Play Therapy, Sensory Integration and Neurodevelopmental Therapy skills (just to name a few).  The position available is for an OT who wants to engage with adolescents to young adults primarily within the areas of psychosocial disability and mental health. Your intervention role will enable you to cover:

• The person's mental health, supporting the integration of theory of mind, self awareness, social and emotional capacities
• Self management capacities via addressing underlying cognitive challenges

To address the above you will have access to varied intervention spaces from a library/media room, full kitchen, art spaces and large therapeutic SI Rooms. You will also receive continuous professional development in areas such as cognition, mental health and varied therapeutic frameworks to support your therapeutic capacities.

As an occupational therapy team we value evidence and research informed practice and provide our OTs in training in the entire picture of development including Gestalt and Analytical development, the variations in assessment and intervention practices across processing styles, as well as up to date assessment and intervention across sensory profiles and to fit functional needs such as motor, praxis or cognition focused interventions. Our Team utilizes a range of social and emotional frameworks and is trained in various intervention strategies and supports to suit mixed framework use.

We are looking for an occupational therapist who wants to specialize in working with adolescents to young adults and as a result need a person who can work 10am-7pm or 9am-6pm. We are open to open to a 4 day work but need a person who can work later into the day to suit the times this age range of clients can attend.

All new employees engage with our 100 day success program which includes:

• Initial role training to explain all the processes in place to enable smooth running from admin to clinical roles.
• Professional development to increase your knowledge on formal and informal assessment and intervention.
• Daily check ins
• Weekly supervision for the first full year of employment.
• Weekly Professional development groups with your team where you are provided with a custom course created by the clinical director or chosen by the clinical director to increase the team's knowledge base.
• A managed caseload with ample time to complete reports, support plans and clinical notes scheduled into your daily calendar with never a need to take work home.

As a new employee you will receive training on all aspects of being an OT and complete observations on all roles before starting to complete assessments. We gradually drip feed in clients and ensure you understand and can complete the assessment to intervention process before increasing your client load. We start with 1-2 client a day (depending on your experience), with full support to plan and execute assessments (planning prep, in room supervision and post assessment note completion).

Transforming Kids has a wealth of knowledge from:

• Sensory Integration and the neurobiology of filtering
• Neuro-affirming social and emotional skill development
• Varied frameworks of practice to support mental health development
• Cognition, theory of mind and the impact on mental health
• Dynamic movement systems and how cognition enables coordination
• Oculomotor assessment and integrating the visual processing systems
• Developing executive functioning and enabling active regulation of functional capacities.
• Conquering toileting, feeding, sleeping
• Develop self management of self care and increasing a client's capacity to manage their daily routine.

Our Clinical space is diverse. From large sensory motor rooms, to a fully accessible kitchen, media/library room, art room and basketball court, you have all the equipment and space needed to enable engaging and intrinsically motivating sessions. We have caseload variability as our clinic is custom built to support all ages and all neurotypes. We are an engaging practice who does not use compliance forms of therapy. We are neuro-affirming and function focused.

The roles available are both full time and part time, however being able to work 10am to 7pm is a must to enable you to work with an adolescent to adult caseload.

As a human, we also seek to support you on your journey of development. Our Team understands development is bumpy and self reflection can be emotionally activating. We stay away from 'shoulds' and provide endless support through seniors coming into sessions with you, 1:1 and small group training. As a team we have lunch time tournaments from netball, basketball, handball or soccer and do team lunch orders and coffee runs. We also love escape rooms, lawn bowls and laser tag.

We want you to find the right workplace for you. So feel free to touch base with our clinical director either via email ) or phone , who can arrange for an in person chat or tour