Lead Your Career Forward - Senior OT Mental Health Role | Southern Adelaide

As a Senior Occupational Therapist with the Outer South Community Mental Health multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver specialised occupational therapy services to enhance mental health outcomes and functional independence for consumers with complex needs. This experienced clinician role involves providing discipline-specific assessments, interventions and consultancy services while working collaboratively with consumers, families, carers and various government and non-government organisations to support community functioning and tenure. You will take on clinical leadership responsibilities, providing professional supervision to staff and students while contributing to the continuous improvement of quality clinical services within the team and disciplinary group.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Team Manager for Outer South Community Health Mental Health Service and the Principal Occupational Therapist for SALHN Mental Health Services, some of your duties as an AHP3 Senior OT may involve: 

• Undertaking care coordination of an allocated caseload within evidence-based frameworks.
• Developing and regularly reviewing care plans in collaboration with consumers and carers, including consumers with complex presentation.
• Identifying consumer's occupational barriers  to occupational performance and promoting the provision of strengths-based recovery approaches in the delivery of services.

About you:

• Must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board of Australia.
• Extensive experience working with people with complex mental health needs. 
• Clinical experience in the provision of evidence-based mental health Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions.
• Experience in the supervision of other Occupational Therapists.
• Advanced skills in undertaking a comprehensive bio-psychosocial assessment, including mental state and risk assessments of consumers presenting with high or complex needs. 

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Leanne Rootsey, Team Manager, (08) 8384 9599, Leanne.Rootsey@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 13th November 2025

Attachments:

• 920373 AHP3 Senior Occupational Therapist - Role Description.pdf
• 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: 920373