Occupational Therapist – Community Based
Core
Provide client-centred occupational therapy services to older people in their own homes across Southeast Tasmania, focusing on maintaining independence, safety, and engagement in daily activities.
Role type
Community-based Occupational Therapist
Builds
Home safety modifications, assistive equipment prescriptions, and individualized reablement care plans
Domain
Aged care / Community health
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, functional capacity evaluation, care plan development, equipment prescription, environmental modification planning, multidisciplinary collaboration, clinical documentation, risk management
Preferred skills
Reablement and restorative care approaches, aged care or community health background
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Conduct comprehensive in-home assessments (ADLs, mobility, safety), develop and implement goal-based care plans, recommend and prescribe assistive equipment and home modifications, provide education to clients and carers, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, manage a community-based caseload including travel, maintain compliant clinical documentation, identify and manage clinical risks
Seniority
Mid-level, autonomous practitioner