🧠 Lead expert OT care across acute & rehab mental health
📚 Support students & grow through supervision & training
🚀 Drive recovery-focused care & quality improvements

Join the OT team at Cumberland Hospital. Deliver standout mental health care. Learn, grow, make an impact. Apply Now! ⭐

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Occupational Therapist Level 3
Remuneration: $112,396 - $116,038 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Location: Cumberland Hospital, North Parramatta

About Your New Role:

• Cumberland Hospital is excited to offer an opportunity for a Level 3 Occupational Therapist to deliver high-quality clinical services to consumers and their families/carers, ensuring optimal outcomes across our acute and rehabilitation streams.
• Our OT department at Cumberland Hospital strives to be a supportive and nurturing environment. We are looking for individuals who are eager to learn, have a good sense of humour, are friendly, and proactive.
• If you enjoy working in a collaborative and caring setting, you’ll find our team welcoming!
• Our staff is dedicated to supporting each other and genuinely cares about patient outcomes. We strive to provide the highest standard of care, advocating for individual needs in care planning, and leveraging each other’s skills to make a meaningful difference.

Where You'll Be Working:

• In this role, you will provide services across Cumberland Hospital’s acute and rehabilitation streams.
• Our department is composed of committed Occupational Therapists, Diversional Therapists, Art Therapists, and Exercise Physiologists.
• We promote a supportive atmosphere that values seeking assistance and providing professional, respectful feedback. Our team embraces diversity, honours differences, and celebrates collective successes.

What you'll be doing

• This role involves planning, coordinating, and delivering exceptional Occupational Therapy (OT) services across Cumberland Hospital’s acute and rehabilitation streams, adhering to Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) policies and standards. Flexibility is essential, as you will work across various clinical settings based on service needs.
• You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to perform assessments and provide both individual and group interventions within a recovery model, supporting consumers in achieving their optimal level of functioning.
• The role also includes overseeing and coordinating student placements, alongside providing clinical supervision and leadership to level 1 and 2 OTs.

What We Can Offer:

• Under our excellence framework, we offer professional development plans, open leadership communication, and a collaborative, respectful, and empowering work environment (CORE Values).
• WSLHD is embarking on an exciting phase in mental health service delivery, with new facilities and expanded services. This expansion will create numerous new positions and opportunities for career advancement in higher-grade roles.
  
  You will benefit from:
• Free onsite parking and fleet cars for site-to-site travel
• Access to the Continuing Professional Development including a wide range of supervision and professional development opportunities, including ongoing health learning programs and career succession plans.
• We also offer manager capability programs for those interested in leadership roles.
• Generous leave conditions as per NSW Health (State) awards including monthly paid ADO (full time staff only)
• Options for salary packaging, novated leasing which can lower your taxable income
• Access to EAP and Fitness Passport.

Essential Criteria:

• Qualification: Degree or Diploma recognised by Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
• Registration: General registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.

Selection Criteria:

1. Degree or Diploma in Occupational therapy with Full National registration.
2. Demonstrated mental health experience in the use of Standardised Occupational Therapy assessment tools.
3. Demonstrated experience in evidence-based service provision and commitment to recovery based programs, implementation, and evaluation.
4. Demonstrated commitment to consumer participation in their treatment and care plan development, working with families and carers.
5. Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills, and time management skills.
6. Demonstrated experience in student co-ordination and commitment to supervision of students, implementing education programs and liaison with university placement coordinators.
7. Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team, organise work in an effective manner and maintain partnerships.
8. Current Drivers Licence valid within Australia.

Requisition ID: REQ586733
Applications Close: 9th July 2025

Need more information?

• Discover more about the application process.
• Review the detailed Position Description for insights into role requirements and criteria.
• Explore the selection process, employment checks, outcomes and notifications.
• For inquiries about the role, contact Samantha Lo on [email protected]

People with disabilities who meet the selection criteria are encouraged to apply; and where required, WSLHD will implement reasonable adjustment consistent with industry standard.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. Stepping Up aims to assist Aboriginal job applicants by providing information about applying for roles in NSW Health organisations. For more information, please visit https://www.steppingup.health.nsw.gov.au/

Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.