Occupational Therapist

PartTime Position

The successful candidate will be required to work three days per week.

About the Location

Aegis Murdoch is the latest Residence in the Aegis Group providing exceptional care including Permanent Transitional as well as Respite Care in a stateoftheart safe and comfortable environment. Located adjacent to Fiona Stanley Hospital in the new Murdoch Health and Knowledge Precinct the Residential Aged Care Facility is due to open in May 2024. Developed with an innovative multistorey design Aegis Murdoch incorporates seven floors of accommodation. Each of these floors offers 26 single rooms with their own private ensuite and access to their balcony allowing residents to take advantage of the expansive views. For residents with Dementia Aegis Murdoch offers a Memory Support Floor with a specifically designed care environment and access to a large secure ground floor garden courtyard.

About the Role

The role offers an opportunity to provide highquality evidencebased Occupational Therapy services founded on our philosophy of residentcentred wholistic care. In your daytoday role you will be responsible for assessing the physical and psychosocial functioning of residents informing their occupational performance capacity in all aspects of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). You will work alongside residents and those that are important to them to identify their occupational goals needs and preferences to inform residentled goaldirected care planning within a multiskilled environment that is focused on the occupational strengths and reablement of our residents.

Occupational Therapists understand the importance of occupational roles routines and structure. Using activity analysis and in consultation with the wider multidisciplinary team you will plan implement and deliver wholistic and dynamic therapy and lifestyle programs that promote residents sense of self autonomy wellbeing and overall quality of life by enabling their participation in meaningful and purposeful activity.

As an Occupational Therapist within Aegis no day will look the same! You will benefit from a diverse caseload that allows you to apply a broad range of your core skills including but not limited to :

• Seating and postural management
• Pressure management
• Fine and gross motor function
• Dementia care
• Cultural diversity
• Equipment provision
• Environmental redesign
• Health promotion
• Advocate for residents through supporting choice and mitigating risk processes
• Leadership
• Training and education
• Quality Monitoring practices and Continuous improvement.

To excel at this role you will be supported by a team of Senior Clinicians with the opportunity to participate in peer support activities ensuring opportunities for personal and professional growth.

About Aegis

The Aegis Aged Care Group has been providing quality care services to West Australians for nearly 40 years. We are committed to excellence through imagination and innovation providing a quality life for those who live in one of our 29 Care Facilities in WA. Aegis is our States largest Residential Aged Care Provider employing over 4600 staff.

Our culture of coaching and continuous improvement means not only will you get to work in a challenging and rewarding environment but also within a company that fosters the growth of all employees.

While working at Aegis we will provide you with a range of benefits including :

About You

Whether you are a new graduate or an experienced clinician with a foundation in disability paediatrics or hospital work and are curious about making the move to residential aged care we have a supportive team that is happy to help you make the transition.

Essential Requirements

Please click the Apply button if you meet the criteria and see a future with Aegis as a valuable member of our diverse team of staff dedicated to the care of our elderly.

Key Skills

Body Mechanics,Early Intervention,Acute Care,Communication skills,HIPAA,Autism Experience,Computer Literacy,Pediatrics Experience,Home Care,Heavy Lifting,Patient Service Experience,Medicare

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Hourly Salary Salary : 44 - 55