Employment Type: Fulltime permanent; part-time and casual applications accepted.
Hours: 80 hours a fortnight with ADO.
Salary: Salary between $76,056 and $104,753 per annum dependent on experience.
Location: Mercy Care Centre, Young, NSW
Upload with Application: Resume and cover letter, unrestricted driver's license.
Contact: Clare Findlay, [email protected], 0263828415. If you require a position description or further information, please get in contact.

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About the opportunity

Join the Occupational Therapy (OT) team at Mercy Care Centre, Young NSW. We provide public hospital OT services to acute & sub-acute inpatients, adult community, and community paediatric clients. Fantastic opportunity to enjoy the beautiful town of Young and utilise and build your clinical skills.

Role is rural generalist and is rotational - opportunity exists to develop skills across rotations including: inpatients & rehabilitation, community adults & Transitional Aged Care Program, and paediatric outpatient caseloads.

You will deliver NSW Heath funded health services and provide essential, evidence based, effective and quality health care to the Hilltops district in NSW.

Regular supervision provided and internal and external professional development supported.

New graduates encouraged to apply.

Be part of a large multi-disciplinary team which provides highly responsive and flexible service to consumers and carers. Our OT team includes a senior OT, two Level 1-2 OTs and two Allied Health Assistants.

Young is a wine and cherry area; 2hrs from Canberra, Wagga or Orange; 4 hours to the snow. Young is a welcoming rural town offering sport, culture, tourist and adventure opportunities. Relocation allowance may apply.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

Excellent clinical, time management, organisational and communication skills, with the ability to adapt and problem solve.

A compassionate, flexible and positive approach to effective patient care.

Be self-motivated, to learn and build variety of skills, and be a positive team member.

You be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

A current Police Record Check

NSW Working with Children Check.

Proof of current influenza vaccination and other vaccination status consistent with public health orders.

Unrestricted driver's license

AHPRA registration

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.