Senior Occupational Therapist Level 3 – Cancer Services

Employment Type: Temporary Part Time (Until 25/05/2025)
Position Classification: Senior Occupational Therapist Level 3Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $54.76 – $56.54 per hour
Hours Per Week: 14
Requisition ID: REQ486036Applications Close: 30/05/2024With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.About UsNepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean and Blue Mountains and Lithgow Region.Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.Our Nepean Cancer Care Centre is seeking to recruit a Senior Occupational Therapist who is keen to take a Part time assignment. This role will assist in Occupational Therapy cover of the Oncology and palliative care caseload during Mondays and Tuesdays as part of the larger Allied Health team within Cancer Services. The position will ensure the provision of high quality occupational therapy service to to cancer services clients and carers in order to achieve optimal health outcomes. A key function of the role is to provide senior clinical leadership to Occupational Therapists as a mentor and supporting the development of staff.Key to your success is working with a multi-disciplinary team to provide client centred care to the target population.We invite you to take the next step in your career with us. Apply Today!Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees· Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging· Novated Leasing· Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year· Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members· Fitness PassportNBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.What you will bring to the role * Current Registration to practice as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA) and Current Registration to practice as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA) and Current drivers licence (P2 Licence Acceptable). Willingness to use for work purposes and may include driving long distances across the LHD.

• Demonstrated high level skills in verbal and non-verbal communication with consumers, teams and other stakeholders, including excellence in negotiation, decision making, advocacy and collaborative consultation. Demonstrated experience in documentation and formal reporting.
• Demonstrated well developed clinical knowledge and problem solving skills in an acute hospital or ambulatory setting within a multidisciplinary team, with ability to provide clinical services to client groups of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills.
• Demonstrated experience and skill in staff and student supervision
• Demonstrated high level organisational and time management skills in an environment of competing clinical / administrative demands.
• Demonstrated ability to advise, lead and participate in service development, change management and quality improvement initiatives within the OT environment and more broadly across a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of relevant evidence based practice resources to guide decision making and commitment to ongoing education /professional development.

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