Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist

17 hours ago

South West Coast VIC, Australia Joyful Journey OT Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist – Step into Leadership + Flexibility + Growth

Corio, Geelong | Full-Time | Senior Role or Pathway | Bonus Pay Structure | Work-from-Home Options


Feel like you've hit a ceiling in your current OT role?

Maybe you love your clients, but there's no room to grow. You're mentoring others unofficially, taking initiative, thinking big—but there's no space for your next step.

At Joyful Journey OT, we see you. And we've created space for someone exactly like you.

We're offering an opportunity for an experienced paediatric OT (5+ years) who's ready to step into more leadership, more autonomy, more earning potential—and a whole lot more joy in their work.


About Us

Joyful Journey OT is a purpose-driven paediatric occupational therapy clinic in Geelong. We provide neurodiversity-affirming, child-led, and family-focused therapy to incredible kids, teens and adults - and we also work hard to take great care of our team.

We're not growing for the sake of it. We're growing with intention, creating space for clinicians who want meaningful leadership opportunities, flexible work-life balance, and support to thrive in their careers long-term.


About the Role

We're currently hiring for a Senior OT position (or an experienced OT ready to transition into senior practice within 6 months). This role includes:

  • Supporting a varied caseload of neurodivergent children, teens and/or adults
  • Leading, mentoring and coaching early-career clinicians
  • Contributing to clinical systems, culture projects and service development
  • Collaborating closely with the Director to shape practice-wide initiatives
  • Working flexibly - including a dedicated weekly admin day that's fully remote

You'll have the option to shape this role to your strengths and goals—whether that's purely clinical senior OT work, or branching into special projects, program development or supervision.


We Might Be a Match If You…

· Have 5+ years of paediatric OT experience

· Are passionate about neurodiversity-affirming, family-centred practice

· Feel ready for a senior OT role—but your current workplace has no space for you to grow

· Love mentoring and building up others

· Want to contribute to a practice's strategic development and leadership

· Want to earn more without having to sacrifice wellbeing

· Crave autonomy, flexibility and meaningful connection with your team

· Thrive on projects and ideas—especially if you've been told you're "too driven" or "too visionary" elsewhere


Why Joyful Journey OT?

We've built our benefits around what experienced clinicians actually need:

· Bonus pay structure that rewards impact and initiative

· Above award salary—transparent, fair and reviewed regularly

· True flexibility, including self-managed schedules and admin days worked from home

· Hybrid options for WFH when not seeing clients

· Clear career progression, including a supported Senior OT onboarding path

· $1200+ annual PD budget, plus in-house development opportunities

· Regular supervision and mentoring always prioritised

· Culture that values your voice, ideas and leadership

· Wellbeing perks—team building days, birthday leave, no after-hours


Ready for a Change?

We're hiring now for the right fit. This could be your opportunity to stop waiting and step into the next phase of your career—with the support, flexibility and recognition you deserve.

Apply via Seek with your CV and a short cover letter, or email Hannah Lees (Director) at

We're reviewing applications as they come in—so don't wait too long.

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