Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Occupational Therapist Level 3
Location: Nepean Hospital
Remuneration: $112,396.00 - $116,038.00 per annum
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ581627
Applications Close: 13/07/2025
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment,
working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed
and develop in your chosen career role.

ABOUT US

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.
Are you a skilled and compassionate Occupational Therapist wishing to join a dedicated Palliative Care team located at Nepean Hospital who supporti patients with life-limiting illness to maintain dignity, function and quality of life.
As a senior clinician, you will lead and deliver expert occupational therapy services across inpatient and/or outpatient palliative care settings.
This role willl see you provide complex assessment, care planning and intervention to support patients’ functional independence and comfort, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop holistic, person-centred care plans, offer leadership, clinical supervision and mentoring, contribute to service development, quality improvement and evidence-based practice whilst supporting patients and families through care with empathy and professionalism
Job share may be considered for the right candidate/s. Join a team where your expertise, compassion and leadership can truly change lives.
We invite you to make this next step in your career with us. Apply Today!

• Current Registration to practice as an Occupational Therapist with the Occupational Therapy Board, Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Authority (AHPRA) and Current driver licence (P2 Licence Acceptable) and willingness to use for work purposes that may include driving long distances across the LHD.
• Demonstrated high level skills in verbal and non-verbal communication with consumers, teams and other stakeholders, including excellence in negotiation, decision making, advocacy and collaborative consultation. Demonstrated experience in documentation and formal reporting.
• Demonstrated post graduate clinical experience in palliative care / cancer care in community and hospital settings, within a multidisciplinary team, with ability to provide clinical services to a client group of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills.
• Demonstrated experience and skill in staff and student supervision.
• Demonstrated high level organisational and time management skills in an environment of competing clinical / administrative demands.
• Demonstrated ability to advise, lead and participate in service development, change management and quality improvement initiatives within the occupational therapy environment and more broadly across a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated experience in the use of relevant evidence-based practice resources to guide decision making and commitment to ongoing education /professional development.
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