Clinical & Quality Occupational Therapy Educator

Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist with significant experience and technical knowledge, love occupational therapy but ready to move away from the day-to-day client work. Do you get excited about helping and developing other clinicians (from graduate to senior) grow and develop? Do you notice where a process could work better, and feel compelled to fix it? This could be the role for you!

We've created the Clinical & Quality Occupational Therapy Educator position to lead the professional development and practice quality of our Occupational Therapy team across ATS. It's a genuine opportunity to shape how Occupational Therapy is delivered across our growing regional organisation, and an opportunity to understand the legislative changes and shifting landscape that is impacting the way our occupational therapists need to work. From working on clinical templates for our report writing, to educating the team on where our focus needs to be and how we need to deliver quality services as occupational therapists through supervision.

About us

Allied Therapeutic Services (ATS) is a multidisciplinary allied health provider with clinics in Cairns, Townsville, Ayr, Mackay and Charters Towers. Our Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Speech Pathologists and Positive Behaviour Support practitioners work with children, adults and older people in our clinics, in homes, schools and daycares, and via telehealth.

We strive to be the allied health service of choice for clients in North Queensland, and the employer of choice for the clinicians who serve them. Our values of Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration sit at the heart of how we work.

About the role

Reporting directly to the Clinical Director, you'll be responsible for the supervision, education and development of tools, templates and resources for our Occupational Therapy team across five clinics. You'll set the standard for quality Occupational Therapy practice, build the capability of every Occupational Therapist in the team, and lead the improvement work that keeps our services strong.

The role is based at our Townsville clinic. You'll supervise Occupational Therapists at other sites via telehealth.

What you'll do

Clinical supervision and professional development

• Provide regular individual and group clinical supervision to all Occupational Therapists across ATS, in person and via telehealth
• Support our Occupational Therapists through structured training & development program, and keep our clinicians current and growing.
• Identify skill gaps across the team and design training that closes them.
• Design and deliver the graduate program for New Graduate Occupational Therapists.
• Join clinicians in client sessions to model, observe and give practical feedback as part of learning.
• Work alongside the hub leads to ensure awareness of clinical level, strengths and vulnerabilities or all occupational therapists in their team.
• Plan and facilitate Occupational Therapy discipline meetings that clinicians find genuinely useful and productive, including evidence updates and peer learning.

• Keep the team current on the evidence, NDIS and aged care requirements, and professional standards.
• Be the go-to person for complex clinical questions and ethical decision-making.

Quality improvement

• Deliver continuous quality improvement across our occupational therapy services and processes.
• Review and strengthen Occupational Therapy assessments, templates, report quality, documentation and procedures.
• Quality check all ATS Occupational Therapy reports prior to release.

What you'll bring

Essential

• Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy and current general registration with AHPRA.

• Confidence working with presentations across the lifespan, from early childhood through to older adults.
• Strong skills and passion in sharing and developing and mentoring other clinicians.
• Strong working knowledge of NDIS, Aged Care and Private practice and reporting requirements.
• Confidence writing and reviewing reports to NDIS Practice Standards and aged care requirements
• A track record of leading or contributing to quality improvement or practice change.
• Strong clinical reasoning under complexity, and the judgement to know when to escalate
• Confident presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to engage a group and keep it on track.
• Warm, clear communication, and the confidence to have honest conversations about practice.
• NDIS Worker Screening Check and a current driver's licence.

Desirable

• Formal training in clinical supervision or leadership

• Experience working in a multi-site or regional service
• Familiarity with clinical governance frameworks

What we offer

• $120,000 to $140,000 base salary (pro-rata, experience dependent), plus superannuation.
• A key role on the ATS Leadership Team

• A position built around leadership, supervision, training and quality, rather than a clinical caseload.
• The chance to influence Occupational Therapy practice across five clinics and a diverse client group.

• A supportive multidisciplinary team that values collaboration and doing things well

How to Apply

Please send your resume and a cover letter (no more than two pages) telling us:

●      Why this role appeals to you, and

●      One quality improvement or practice change you've led, and what difference it made.

We'll review applications as they arrive, so we encourage you to apply early.