Senior Occupational Therapist – Brisbane
BRISBANE | Full-time | Currently taking applicants
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Paediatric Occupational Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary team!
We are an innovative NDIS-registered allied health service provider. We support our community with autism and other neurological challenges, through unique play-based therapies that our clients love. With multi-disciplinary facilities in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and strong demand for additional locations, we are committed to building and nurturing a team of like-minded individuals.
Why work with Brain Train?
Our diverse team of multi-disciplinary therapists have created a culture built on respect and care for our clients and each other. We are a supportive team with a focus on developing our capacity as a whole to ensure our clients receive the best possible care. We are a team that celebrates birthdays and successes, spends lunch breaks together, and truly cares about ensuring that both our team and clients feel safe, respected, and recognised.
Therapists talking to therapists.
We provide a holistic and multidisciplinary approach with a focus on optimising client outcomes. Time is provided in the working day for discipline-specific and multidisciplinary team meetings to upskill and discuss cases with a multidisciplinary focus. There are opportunities to work directly with multidisciplinary therapists in joint sessions, groups, and other flexible therapeutic modalities.
We prioritise work-life balance, which is reflected in our team culture. We can offer you:
Annual professional development allowance
Additional paid professional development days
Flexible working arrangements
Wellness personal leave days
Laptop and private therapy room
Shared resources
Administration team booking appointments, invoicing, and managing NDIS changes
Your role:
With a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach, coach, mentor and develop the OT Cohort within the Centre (and across the Organisation as appropriate) to provide exceptional therapies and supports to Brain Train’s clients in line with the values, mission, and strategy, while factoring in each Therapists professional development/endeavours
Identify the support, upskilling, and therapy needs of the OT Cohort
Maintaining high-quality documentation including written assessments and reports, and case notes for all clients
Support quality innovation, therapy innovation, and development of Brain Train’s Therapy Group Programs
Providing individual therapy sessions as well as group and/or transdisciplinary therapy options
Providing high-quality feedback and education to parents and caregivers
Advocating for the child and family and supporting self-advocacy skills
Contributing to program development and multidisciplinary professional development
Proactively work with your Allied Health Centre Manager to develop appropriate external and internal communications to support an optimal caseload and waitlist
Establishing neurodiversity affirming occupational therapy treatment goals collaboratively with the family incorporating values, interests, and cultural factors.
Provisioning play-based and goal-based interventions to promote sensory processing, regulation, and skill development in daily occupations as well as considering how the environment or activity can be amended to support participation.
Compliance with the NDIS Code of Conduct
Working with families, schools and communities using a holistic developmental approach that is trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming and family-centred.
This position will suit you if you:
Love interacting with special needs children in a play-based way and want to make a very real and tangible difference in their lives
Are an intuitive person with high levels of energy, engagement, and enthusiasm
Share our core purpose of helping children with neurodevelopmental differences, and their families, to thrive
Have an appreciation for a wide range of therapeutic approaches
Are a neurodiversity-affirming practitioner who can advocate for clients from a strengths-based perspective.
The successful applicant will require:
A tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy (registration with AHPRA)
First Aid and CPR qualifications
Working with Children and NDIS Workers Clearance check
Minimum 4 years’ experience as a paediatric occupational therapist.
Experience delivering services under the NDIS
Experience working with early intervention, children, and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders, including Intellectual Disability, Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, and GDD.
High level knowledge, skills and experience in assessment, diagnosis, therapy, case management and discharge planning of children with developmental disorders.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team.
Experience working and communicating with culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Brain Train’s commitment to creating an enjoyable and healthy workplace, life balance, and career development ensures a career path exists for high achievers. Brain Train is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all persons.
To Apply
Please send your resume and cover letter addressing the selection criteria to katerina.cau@thebraintrainco.com