Rehabilitation Consultant - Occupational Therapist

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IPAR’s Rehabilitation Consultant role in Perth seeks an Occupational Therapist with full AHPRA registration or eligibility, ideally with occupational rehabilitation experience or experience supporting neurodivergent clients. You’ll manage a varied caseload with Rehabilitation Assistants, collaborate with employers and clinicians across workers compensation, CTP, life insurance, Comcare and DVA, and conduct Functional Capacity Evaluations, Worksite, Ergonomic and Activities of Daily Living assessments to craft tailored return-to-work plans. The role offers autonomy, a warm, multidisciplinary team, mentorship, and opportunities for professional growth, plus competitive remuneration and wellbeing benefits. To apply, demonstrate measurable return-to-work outcomes, injury prevention work, and neurodivergent support on your CV, and quote REF9931I when you contact Grant Devlin at 0476 740 466.

Company Description

IPAR is a national occupational rehabilitation provider supporting thousands of people who may be living with an illness, disability, or injury. Whether it's through workplace rehabilitation, counselling, injury prevention or finding new employment, our care is tailored to each and every individual. We work with our clients to identify their goals and provide psychological or physical supports to help them live life to its fullest potential.

Why joins us?

• Competitive remuneration with innovative incentive and bonus schemes 
• Corporate benefits including Fitness Passport, Retail & Travel Perks, Novated Leasing, Salary Packaging, EAP, Parental & Purchased Leave.
• Access to IPAR’s health and wellness program with fun team monthly activities to support your overall well-being and to connect with your peers
• IPAR’s Star Award reward and recognition program for top achievers
• A "promote from within" culture where every team member is supported to build a career.  
• Employee Referral Program - Monetary incentives for successfully recommending great talent!
• Be part of a diverse and multidisciplinary team who are knowledgeable, collaborative, supportive & fun!
• A comprehensive onboarding program to ensure a great start and ongoing support to excel.
• Opportunity to join our Diversity & Inclusion committees, including the IPAR Pride Group, i-parent, Reconciliation Action Plan committee.

Job Description

We are seeking individuals with a professional background in Occupational Therapist interested in working in the Occupational Rehabilitation sector in Perth.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity to join our Perth team, a close knit group of passionate allied health professionals who genuinely care about each other and the community we serve. Whether it’s morning coffees or collaborating on complex cases the Perth team is known for its warm, supportive culture and strong multidisciplinary expertise. As a Rehabilitation Consultant here, you’ll be surrounded by colleagues who lift each other up, and you’ll be equipped with tailored training, tools and mentorship to help you thrive both professionally and personally.

In this dynamic and rewarding role, you'll enjoy the flexibility and autonomy to structure your day while making a meaningful impact in helping people return to health, work and life. Working with a diverse client group, including individuals with neurodivergent conditions, you'll support clients through their rehabilitation journey following workplace injury or illness, delivering tailored occupational rehabilitation services across a range of physical and psychological presentations. Using your clinical expertise, you'll help clients achieve sustainable recovery and return-to-work outcomes while enjoying variety, flexibility and the opportunity to make a genuine difference every day. Experience in Occupational Rehabilitation and/or supporting neurodivergent clients will be highly regarded.

Some of your day to day includes:

• Manage a varied caseload, supported by Rehabilitation Assistants to help reduce administrative workload

• Apply your clinical expertise to improve return to work outcomes and collaborate with employers and employees to deliver injury prevention initiatives and workplace education programs

• Work closely with injured workers, employers, medical and allied health professionals across a range of schemes, including workers compensation, CTP, life insurance, Comcare and DVA

• Conduct a variety of assessments using your discipline-specific skills, including Functional Capacity Evaluations, Worksite Assessments, Ergonomic Assessments and Activities of Daily Living Assessments

• Support individuals with injury or health conditions to achieve sustainable return-to-health and return-to-work outcomes

• Develop and implement tailored Return to Work plans

Check out our company video if you want to see what IPAR is all about!

Qualifications

Our new team member will have:

• A qualification in Occupational Therapy with Full Professional Registration with AHPRA or eligibility to obtain

• Experience in Occupational Rehabilitation and/or clinical experience supporting individuals with neurodivergent conditions is highly desirable

• Strong communication skills to build and develop relationships

• Excellent time management skills - be able to work autonomously as well as within a team environment

• A desire to problem solve with the confidence to be innovative, use their initiative and achieve results

• A passion for injury prevention, return to work, and the associated health benefits 

• A current drivers' license and access to their own vehicle

Additional Information

Every day, we seek better together, for our clients, our customers, our community and each other.

Here at IPAR, we have three simple but powerful values that drive every decision we make as a business and as a team. Our values have been created by our people and reflect the incredible team that work here, and what is important to them.

Great People - To be an IPARian means being caring, collaborative and inclusive. We’re accountable, approachable and authentic, lifting ourselves and others to be the best we can be each and every day.

Big Hearts - We’re here to make a positive difference for our clients, our customers, our team and our community. We believe in making meaningful connections as we support people in their time of need.

Bold Ideas - Is there a better way? Let’s find it. We show curiosity and courage in the face of challenge or change and draw on experts, insights and evidence to continually deliver the highest quality solutions.

If you would like to have a confidential discussion about the role [quoting REF9931I] or if you want to express of interest for a career with IPAR, please contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Grant Devlin on 0476 740 466.

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 LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

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