About the Role
Join Acumen Health as an ADF Rehabilitation Consultant, applying clinical reasoning to support ADF personnel with physical and/or psychological injuries. This role offers meaningful rewards and the opportunity to help military personnel achieve full fitness.
Responsibilities
- Taking a holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing.
- Perform a variety of assessments depending on your area of clinical expertise, such as functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments.
- Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including the employee, medical specialists, other treatment providers, and allied health professionals.
- Develop, implement, and monitor rehabilitation plans.
- Focus on genuine person-centred care and goal setting, with KPIs based on service delivery outcomes, not billable hours.
Requirements
- Current unrestricted registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC or AASW).
- Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work.
- Australian Citizenship.
- Minimum of one year clinical work experience, registered in your chosen profession.
- Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal.
- Passion to help people rehabilitate.
- Occupational rehabilitation experience will be highly regarded.
Skills
- Clinical reasoning
- Holistic care approach
- Assessment (functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic, activities of daily living)
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Rehabilitation plan development, implementation, and monitoring
- Person-centred focus
- Goal setting
- Trauma-informed practice
- Validated assessment tools
Location
- HMAS Kuttabul, 18 Wylde St, Potts Point, NSW, 2011
- Various central Sydney bases (HMAS Kuttabul, HMAS Waterhen and HMAS Penguin)
Work Type
- Full Time
- Part Time
Experience Level
- Minimum of one year clinical work experience
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work
Benefits
- Fitness Passport program
- Discounts at hundreds of retail outlets
About the Company
- Acumen Health is part of a national team delivering meaningful outcomes in occupational rehabilitation.
- Acumen Health operates within a national network with strong local teams, offering opportunities to manage diverse and complex cases with support from experienced colleagues and leaders.
- Acumen Health teams are supported by clear clinical governance and practical systems.
- As part of the APM group, Acumen Health is a diverse team of over 16,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose to enable better lives for employees and communities.
- APM's work enables people to realise ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing, and increased social participation.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome all people to join our team, including Veterans, people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity.
