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Make a Difference: Join SALHN as an Occupational Therapist in Mental Health Services

As an Occupational Therapist within SALHN's Mental Health Services, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting individuals on their journey towards recovery. Leveraging your clinical expertise, you'll conduct comprehensive assessments, develop personalized intervention strategies, and empower clients to regain independence through skill-building activities. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to make a lasting impact by promoting functional rehabilitation and community reintegration for those facing mental health challenges.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Team Manager, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Offering specialist group, or individual interventions according to own knowledge base and individual skill, as determined by service/team requirements
• Developing, implementing and evaluating a range of social, work, recreation, living skills and individual programs, relevant to consumer needs, which assist consumers to develop/maintain skills for independence
• Providing services to consumers which promote and facilitate the use of supports available at the local community level and which take into account social and cultural diversities
• Assisting with developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives, which may involve project coordination

About you:

• Experience in accessing, liaising with, monitoring and evaluating community resources and community projects
• Competent in working collaboratively with all key stake holder to design individual service plans and coordinate comprehensive service provision including rehabilitation programs from a clinical psychosocial perspective, for older people who have complex mental health problems
• Ability to work collaboratively and cohesively with consumers, carers, other agencies, community services and the multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in the provision of Mental Health Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Sharon Brown, Team Manager (OPMHS), (08) 7117 5037, Sharon.Brown@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 23rd June 2025 11.55pm 

Attachments:

• 906812 Occupational Therapist - Role Description
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 906812