Work Type: Part-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Grade not specified
Occupation: Health and allied health
Location: Melbourne - Northern suburbs
Reference: 5481
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Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About Occupational Therapy
Our Occupational Therapy department at Austin Health is a progressive hub of patient-centred care, continuous improvement, professional growth and supportive career structures. Our focus is on wellbeing, evidence-based service improvement, sustainable workforce, growth and development. This role will join our Better at Home Program.
About Better@Home
Better@Home is an inpatient bed substitution service allowing patients to continue their care at home. The program now provides acute and subacute multi-disciplinary care to help patients achieve their goals, prevent re-admission and in certain circumstances, avoid hospital admission altogether. Patients are admitted to the program from any of the three Austin Health sites. The program has a grade 4 allied health team leader as well as a multidisciplinary team comprising nursing, medical and allied health professionals.
About the role
The grade 3 occupational therapist will be recognised as a clinical expert in acute and/or subacute care with consolidated skills in client-centred assessment, intervention and complex discharge. The grade 3 OT provides expert patient care as part of a multidisciplinary team and is expected to act as a leader within the MDT to support the delivery of excellent patient care.
Eligible Occupational Therapists can become credentialled to the perform the advanced scope role of an Allied Health Interdisciplinary Practitioner (AHIP). AHIPs are trained to deliver excellent transdisciplinary allied health (primarily occupational therapy and physiotherapy) services to Better@Home clients who have complex needs.
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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:
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We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
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, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Tegan Bell, Occupational Therapist Grade 4 at [email protected].
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: Monday 6 July 2026