Occupational Therapy Hand Therapist G3 or G2

1 month ago


Heidelberg, Australia Austin Health Full time
  • Join our outpatient stream with this flexible hand therapy role
  • Casual pay rate $54.86 -$72.34 / hour depending on grade and classification level
  • Up to $12,000 tax free earnings with salary packaging options
  • Join a department that values employee development and offers great career opportunities
  • Grow your career by gaining experience in a leading tertiary health setting

About Occupational Therapy:

Our Occupational Therapy department at Austin Health is a bustling hub of patient-centered care, continuous improvement, professional growth and supportive career structures. Our focus is on wellbeing, evidence-based service improvement, sustainable workforce, and growth and development.

About the role:

The Grade 2 or 3 Occupational Therapist will work in the hand therapy stream to ensure safe and effective evidence based clinical care for patients and their families. This position is based in the out-patient hand therapy service that provides evidence-based therapy to patients with traumatic, chronic and post-operative conditions affecting their hand function.    

The OT will support, teach and train Grade 1 OT staff members, assistants and students. They will support the grade 3 and 4 in managing the clinical steam and assist in managing the workload allocation.

You’ll thrive if you have

  • Extensive clinical experience in assessment, treatment and goal setting of highly complex client groups.  
  • Leadership skills with the ability to motivate, mentor, and inspire others.
  • Highly developed teaching and supervision skills with a commitment to growing the skills of your team
  • A collaborative spirit and an ability to build networks and strong relationships with peers and leaders.
  • Excellent communication and decision-making skills  
  • Demonstrated passion for research and best practices.

Our benefits:

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day.  Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

  • Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day.  Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits:  
  • We offer a range of flexible working options that will enhance your work/life balance 
  • We invest in you; our staff are supported to grow their career and skills through a suite of learning and development opportunities and mentoring
  • Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging  
  • A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program 
  • Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists 

Inclusion at Austin:

We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities.  We welcome and support applications from anyone identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, physically or culturally diverse, LGBTQI+, and people of any age.

Work with us

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application.  All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to the hiring manager.

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Click here for Grade 2 or here for Grade 3 position description for further details.



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