Occupational Therapist - Housing Support Program

Make a Real Impact in Community Health.

• Full-Time or Part-Time | Fixed Term until December 2026
• Flexible work arrangements, including WFH options
• High level of administrative and clinical supervision
• Work for a multi-award-winning iconic community health organisation
• Generous salary packaging options to reduce your cohealth taxable income

Are you an Occupational Therapist passionate about equity, inclusion, and meaningful community impact? At cohealth, you'll join a multidisciplinary team that thinks differently, values your voice, and empowers you to bring your whole self to work—while supporting some of Victoria's most marginalised communities.

As a multi-award-winning community health organisation, cohealth was 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. Please click here to find out more.

About the role

Join our Housing Relocation Support Program, supporting public housing residents in North-West Melbourne affected by redevelopment. As an OT, you'll help residents transition safely and confidently into new environments by identifying and addressing the environmental, social, and functional barriers they may face.

You'll work closely with people from culturally diverse backgrounds, those with living disabilities, chronic or mental health conditions, or older adults, to create personalised and meaningful care plans. Trauma informed and culturally safe practice is central to this position.

Your duties include:

• Support the ongoing review and improvement of the Housing Relocation Support Program to be responsive to the changing needs of residents
• Intake as specific assessments, home safety management and complex care case management
• Participate in multidisciplinary coordinated care activities to provide wholistic care

Why you'll love working at cohealth

• Flexible work arrangements, including some work-from-home
• Full-time or part-time options to suit your lifestyle
• Excellent admin and clinical supervision
• Exciting Parental leave benefits
• cohealth offers primary carers 14 weeks 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
• Salary packaging 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) alongside generous reward programs from our salary packaging providers. Find out more on salary packaging here: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Jobs-and-employment-types/Working-as-an-employee/Salary-sacrificing-for-employees/
• Novated Leasing available
• A significantly discounted fitness membership with unlimited access to over 290 facilities for you and your family. To find out more click here
• 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)

About you

• Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy with AHPRA registration
• Experienced in delivering trauma informed and culturally safe care
• Ability to work effectively across a multidisciplinary service and with marginalised clients
• Strong belief and personal alignment in cohealth Values and Mission

Application Process

To download the PD, and to apply for this job go to: https://cohealthcareers.org.au/Current-Jobs & enter ref code: 6834692.

Applications close 05 December 2025 at 10pm

You will be asked to upload your CV/ resume and Cover Letter, please note we will be conducting interviews for this role as applications are received.

If you have any questions regarding this role, please contact Emit Taylor - Emit.Taylor@cohealth.org.au

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.