Senior Clinician Occupational Therapy

• 1 FTE Fixed Term opportunity to 30th June 2025 + Salary under Allied Health Professional Award plus 11.5% super + Salary packaging benefits
• Western Melbourne location + Flexible hybrid working model
• Build your clinical skills differently through our Innovation Framework and creative thinking principles!

We are One Team IPC Health, we are passionate, creative and we make a difference.

We are leaders and changemakers in community health; a team of innovative and passionate health and wellbeing professionals, delivering holistic services through personalised care and empowerment. We support healthy and empowered communities through innovative prevention and care.

The Opportunity

This opportunity is a 1 FTE Fixed Term position to 30th June 2025. The role is classified an Allied Health Professional Award Grade 3 offering $107,181.88 to $122,499.52pa commensurate with skills and experience plus 11.5% super under the Allied Health Professionals Victorian Community Health Sector Multi-Employer Agreement 2022-2026.

In the Senior Clinician Occupational Therapy role, you will apply your adaptive leadership skills and provide supervision, mentoring and support to the team to achieve their goals.

With your sound understanding of the community’s needs, you will work closely with the Senior Clinician team and the Senior Manager Allied Health to oversee planning and assist with team purpose for the Occupational Therapy service, and the wider Allied Health team. You will provide clinical oversight and budget management for our Assistive Technology and Home Modifications program and actively seek and participate in business development opportunities that support IPC Health strategic objectives.

You will make a difference by

• Providing clinical expertise and oversight within IPC Health’s Occupational Therapy team.
• Lead the implementation of evidence-based practice and service development.
• Contribute to managing risk at a clinical level, including operating a continuous quality improvement mindset.
• Provide Occupational therapy assessment and management services to adult clients within one of IPC Health LGAs.
• Demonstrate leadership and inspire teams to think strategically to resolve complex issues within an agile mindset
• Actively participate in meetings with stakeholders, other health services and funding bodies, that fosters engagement and professional working relationships.
• Maximise capacity for and support student placements.
• Monitor staffing profiles in conjunction with the Senior Allied Health Manager

To succeed, you will need

• Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy and experience managing a caseload within the multidisciplinary team cohort.
• Demonstrated experience leading people and or teams to enhance culture by demonstrating professionalism in managing priorities and achieving key strategic deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to provide clinical and operational leadership within a multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently.
• Strong analytical skills that can identify operational drivers for innovation and the ability to implement improvements to mitigate operational/financial risk or exposure.
• Experience in Assistive Technology and Home Modification prescription, and working across multiple funding streams (i.e. HACC, CHSP, NDIS, Home Care Packages)
• High level communication (verbal and written), negotiation, organisational and time management skills.
• Current and valid Victorian driver’s licence and Working with Children’s Check.

Why work with us

• Access to options to flex your work and life commitments through our Flexing with IPC Health program.
• Generous salary packaging and paid parental leave benefits
• Award winning supportive organisation that values growth through our professional development and innovation framework.
• Be well supported through our clinical supervision framework.
• Access to Accrued Days Off to enjoy long weekends and greater work life balance.
• Free onsite car parking.

What next?

Read the relevant program success profile for Allied Health Professional at the following link: IPC Health Careers

To find out more about the role, please contact Melita Harding, Senior Allied Health Manager on 0409 818 097

Submit your resume and a covering letter.

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health. We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other. We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements. We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email [email protected] with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.

Success Profile