Mental Health Occupational Therapist

Flexible PT or FT Hours to Suit Your Work-Life Balance + WFH

Ongoing Structured Training & Development with Personalised CPD

Specialised Office Support to Assist with Admin and Scheduling

Community + Clinic Role with Diverse Adult Clients

Our "Why"

Recovery Station exists to empower people to live a quality life. We believe in creating the ideal work environment for you because when you are happy, healthy, well-skilled and fulfilled, you're in the best position to have a positive impact on everyone around you.   

Key Traits of Recovery Station:

• We love what we do because everyone's role contributes to helping our clients live a more independent, empowered life
• Collaborating with passionate, likeminded colleagues creates connection and facilitates personal and professional growth
• Keeping personalised care at the heart of what we do challenges us to seek new and innovative ways to deliver life-changing service

Joining Recovery Station means aligning with a company that believes in empowering you and your future.

How We Make an Impact

Recovery Station provides community and clinic based allied health services, with a strong focus on disability and senior health. For 20 years we have consistently grown and now proudly offer support to people with diverse needs across Greater Hunter, Central Coast, Sydney, Illawarra & Melbourne.

Together, our passionate, multidisciplinary team of OTs, Mental Health OT's, Psychologists, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Dietitians and Allied Health Assistants collaboratively share their knowledge and experience to holistically design an individualised service to help improve the quality of life for people living with a disability or looking to age as independently as possible. 

Your Day to Day

As a community- based team, we predominantly see our clients either in their homes, group homes, aged care facilities or in a public setting that's relevant and appropriate for them. We want to see our clients where they are most comfortable whilst also giving you a diverse role full of variety and learning opportunities. 

Some of our team schedule a full day of seeing clients one day, then balance this by working from home or having an office day to write reports, prepare resources, have supervision / training. Or you can mix things up depending how you like to work

A community role is great as it allows you to have genuine flexibility and control over how you structure your days and therefore you don't miss your afternoon sport or being able to drop the kids to school in the mornings / pick them up in the afternoons.

Depending where you are living, we tailor your caseload to service clients close to home. Your personalised admin support team will work with you to ensure you aren't zigzagging around the Lake Macquarie/ Newcastle or Maitland.

Day to day you will support your clients to achieve an optimal state of personal, social and emotional wellbeing, as defined by the individual needs of each person. You will achieve this by working with them to identify barriers to optimal functioning through interventions that focus on enhancing existing skills, creating opportunities, promoting wellness, remediating or restoring skills, modifying or adapting the environment or activity, and preventing relapse.

You will be trained to provide trauma informed, person-centred, evidence-based interventions for people in our community experiencing moderate to severe mental health presentations including: acute and chronic psychotic disorders; schizophrenia; bipolar; generalised anxiety; depression; PTSD; alcohol and drug use disorders; mixed anxiety and depression; dissociative (conversion) disorder; sleep problems and OCD.

With our support you will become well versed in writing comprehensive reports based on your clinical understanding, conducting clinical assessments and implementing appropriate interventions to address prioritised needs.

Qualifications

• Approved qualification in Occupational Therapy and AHPRA registration
• Current driver's license with use of own vehicle

How We Foster a Positive Team

We strive to provide an environment that allows you to bring what makes you unique and special to work everyday.

• We value flexibility so you can fit us in around your personal life eg family, sport, other work.
• Remuneration that matches your experience plus the option to stretch for RDO's and financial bonuses if you choose
• We trust you to work from home, or in the office, via telehealth and we give you a laptop and pay a phone/ data allowance to support this
• Waterfront Toronto office
• You will be assisted daily by a member of our admin team whose role is centred on ensuring you travel as efficiently between appointments and compliance pieces such as setting up and adjusting funding plans are completed.  Travel is reimbursed at $0.99/km
• Novated leasing options
• Discounted Health Insurance for you and your family
• An Employee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support
• To bring us together as a team we have a wellbeing program that involves monthly social events. Previously we've gone to mini golf, ten pin bowling, wheelchair basketball, made dumplings and candles, gingerbread houses, painted and celebrated important dates such as International Women's Day, mental health month and many others

Professionally speaking:

• Your thorough Orientation will be supported by ongoing one on ones with your Supervisor to discuss goals personal to you via a CPD plan. This is when you can chat about what you'd personally like to achieve
• These will be complimented with team meetings with your fellow OT's and Psychologists so you can learn during in-services sessions, share ideas, resources and stay abreast of any industry updates
• Mental health debrief sessions with your team and one on one to discuss your week, celebrate wins and share your ideas and feelings in a safe space
• We love facilitating development pathways for clinicians seeking career progression and added responsibility via either supervising students/ grads/ junior staff, increased complexity of caseload or involvement in management procedures depending on what avenue you'd like to explore
• Two days paid CPD leave per annum
• Formal and informal liaison opportunities with other members of our MDT to broaden your clinical knowledge and provide holistic care to our clients
• Companywide annual training day for the entire business (circa 130) to come together to learn from a group keynote plus external presenters tailored each discipline

The Next Steps

We hope the above has moved you to want to learn more about us, our mission and how you could add your unique skills and experience to our team.

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