Occupational Therapist Team Leader

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MedHealth is seeking an Occupational Therapist Team Leader in Tamworth for a full-time onsite role with Ability Action Australia. You will lead a team, provide 1:1 supervision to graduates, and manage your own caseload across home and community settings while delivering timely therapy and maintaining NDIS compliance. The role blends leadership with delivery and offers benefits, flexible hours (part-time min 30.4 hours or full-time), competitive salary with kilometre reimbursement, PD allowance and career growth opportunities. To apply, highlight your leadership and supervision, organisational strengths, and disability sector experience; tailor your CV to outcomes; use the apply button. No cover letter required; for questions contact Amie at 0491 388 893 or LinkedIn.

Company Description

Ability Action Australia!

We are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Help us help others with life changing support that can improve their independence, access, development, health and wellbeing, and function.

Job Description

We are seeking an Occupational Therapist with proven leadership experience to join our #AAA Tamworth team, supporting OT clinicians and participants across the region.

In this role you will:

• Build a collaborative, supportive team environment that drives high-quality clinical outcomes
• Provide 1:1 clinical supervision, mentoring, and professional development to graduate and early career OTs, alongside operational support.
• Manage your own caseload while delivering timely, high-quality therapy services to NDIS participants across home, school, and community settings.
• Assessing participants with complex emotional, cognitive, developmental, and physical needs
• Using clinical observation and standardised assessments to develop evidence-based therapy goals
• Supporting team operations, referral allocation, and NDIS compliance

What's in it for you?

• Great benefits including salary packaging, referral bonuses, extra leave purchase options and corporate discounts
• True flexibility to choose the hours and days that suit your lifestyle - Part-time (min. 30.4hours/week) or Full time.
• Competitive package with industry-leading salary, kilometre reimbursement, laptop, smartphone, PD allowance and performance rewards
• Balanced work style combining clinic-based leadership, work from home and community visits
• Genuine support with dedicated mentors and executive leadership guidance
• Career growth through tailored training, professional development and pathways across Ability Action Australia and MedHealth

Qualifications

• Current Certified Practising Membership with AHPRA
• Proven leadership capability with experience guiding and supervising clinicians
• Strong organisational skills to balance leadership duties with a varied caseload
• Proactive approach with a focus on improvement and trying new ideas
• Experience delivering high-quality services within the disability sector

Additional Information

If this sounds like you click on the Apply button, no cover letter required!

Not ready to apply? You can get in touch with Amie, Talent Acquisition Advisor on 0491 388 893

Or click here to add me on LinkedIn or send me a message #LI-ALG

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.