Occupational Therapist - Rehabilitation Services

at  Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora

DUNEDIN

• Salary - $107,000 - $113,000 and KiwiSaver
• 1.0 FTE (40 hours per week) FTE negotiable
• Permanent position
• Monday to Friday

MŌ MĀTOU - ABOUT US

Te Whatu Ora - Southern has the largest geographical coverage of all the New Zealand regions, providing services to 350,000 people in diverse communities. We take pride in all the services we provide, and our aim is to improve, promote and protect the health of our region. We believe that our dedicated and passionate staff are a significant driving force behind the achievement of these standards, and we need more like-minded people to help us continue providing for our community.

Rehabilitation services across Dunedin cover a range of areas both inpatient and community. Each team is a dynamic and evolving interdisciplinary team and the wider occupational therapy team is a supportive innovative team. We want to start looking at services across the age range and how we can support staff to expand their neurorehabilitation knowledge to plan and provide best-practice rehabilitation to our diverse patients in an inpatient setting or in the patient’s home.
We take pride in supporting our staff to grow and we enable ongoing professional development including regular team in-services, staff mentoring and peer review and access to course and conference funding. We support student education throughout clinical placements.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and expertise in rehabilitation with medical, orthopaedic and neurological conditions including stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI). You will also have the opportunity to support, teach and upskill students and junior staff. There is also an opportunity to look and service development and innovation
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