Discipline Lead - Occupational Therapy

• Full time, ongoing position
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

So why cohealth?

cohealth leads the way in reducing health and social inequity in partnership with people and the communities in which they live. Named Premier's Health Service of the Year (Primary) and the Supporting LGBTIQ+ Health Service at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards, cohealth's 1000 staff demonstrate courage, leadership, innovation, and agility in their commitment to providing inclusive and culturally safe health services that protect the human rights of all people of all gender identities, sexualities, ages, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, faiths, and abilities.

Our inclusive workplace culture enables staff to bring their whole selves to work, where uniqueness is valued, and people experience a feeling of belonging. Our aim is for everyone to thrive in their role. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

The Discipline Lead - Occupational Therapy provides clinical and operational leadership to the Occupational Therapy team with the aim to enhance practice and performance outcomes, ensure best practice, and create service delivery efficiency. The position is pivotal in leading cohealth's Occupational Therapy service redesign work in preparation for industry changes through the Support at Home program. The Disciple Lead - Occupational therapy is a newly created position that sits within the Allied Health leadership team. A portion of this role (0.2) will be apportioned to clinical work. The Discipline Lead will work across multiple sites where Occupational Therapists are based.

For more information, please refer to the Position Description.

Your duties include:

• Facilitating communities of practice, clinical supervision, reflective practice and workplace coaching interventions, in accordance with cohealth's supervision policy
• Supporting evidence-based practice
• Adopting adult learning strategies to support discipline wide development skills and service delivery

What cohealth offers:

• Generous salary packaging options to suit you - tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,650 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation). Salary packaging reduces your cohealth taxable income, meaning you pay less tax on your cohealth income
• A generous rewards program from our salary packaging provider
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
  • cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks of paid parental leave upon completion of only 6 months of continuous service
  • Eligible co-workers will continue to receive superannuation on unpaid parental leave as well
• Novated Leasing available
• Counselling services for you and your immediate family through our EAP-Access provider, and mindfulness, resilience, and wellbeing programs
• We offer inclusion, equality, and opportunity in a workplace where making a difference counts (based on our guiding principles and values)

Our ideal candidate:

• Bachelor of Occupational Therapy degree
• Current AHPRA Registration
• Strong knowledge of the Aged Care Sector and Aged Care Reforms
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience in Occupational Therapy
• Extensive leadership experience of a medium sized team
• Willing to travel across cohealth sites
• Full Victorian Driver's License

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check (NCCHC), a Working with Children Check (WWCC), complete a Pre-Employment Declaration Form, evidence of legal rights to work in Australia, and evidence of vaccination.

Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of immunisation assessment including Influenza within 12 weeks of commencement [B]. This is in accordance with the Victorian Minister of Health Mandatory Vaccination Orders and legislated requirement for influenza vaccination.

Application Process

To download the PD, and apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6742712

You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and answer the Key Selection Criteria. We will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received. This campaign will close on the mentioned date at 10.00 PM. If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Robyn Wilmshurst Robyn.Wilmshurst@cohealth.org.au