Occupational Therapy Manager

ORGANISATION INFORMATION
Organisation	Active+ Waikato
Area, City	Waikato (ideally Hamilton)
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact person	[email protected]
Contact website and/or email	Please apply by emailing your CV and cover letter to [email protected] For a copy of the job description or for further enquiries, please contact [email protected]
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VACANCY DETAILS
Permanent/temporary	Permanent
Full/part time	Full time
Closing date for applications	09-12-2020

JOB DESCRIPTION

An Occupational Therapy Manager role is now available in the Active+ Waikato team. We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and experienced Occupational Therapist who is keen to make an exciting career move and step up into a Managers role, to join our large and dynamic multidisciplinary team.

The Occupational Therapy Manager will provide clinical leadership to a team of occupational therapists based in the Waikato/Lakes area and would be working within a large team of highly experienced, post graduate qualified Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists. Active+ Waikato provides a supportive and widely varied environment to grow. You would continue to maintain your OT skills by carrying a caseload, this role is about an 80/20 mix of caseload and leadership.

Your responsibilities will include:

· Providing leadership to the occupational therapy team

· Be the clinical lead with meeting ACC contractual requirements

· Continuing to maintain your occupational therapy skills by carrying a caseload

· Supporting new staff with orientation and development

· Assisting the business with audit requirements, planning and growth

· Overseeing clinical staff, including leave management, training and service standards

· Maintaining relationships with key stakeholders/suppliers/clients

· A strong passion of delivering service excellence

The successful applicant must be able to demonstrate:

· Clinical and people leadership experience

· A strong passion for delivering service excellence

· The ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders

· A warm and friendly manner, enabling you to work well with others and understand multiple perspectives

· The ability to problem solve and use initiative

· A high standard of proficiency using Microsoft suite (Word, Excel, Publisher, PowerPoint, Outlook)

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

· Clean, full driver’s licence

We offer an excellent remuneration package including salary, phone and use of vehicle. A mixed employment model of Contracting and Employee can also be offered for the right candidate. If you are a hard-working team player with a sense of fun and are looking to work for a premier NZ Vocational Rehabilitation service, then this is the role for you!

Posted on: November 9, 2020

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What do you need from an OT?	Explanation of the service.
Home and Community Environment assessment	Assessment of a person’s ability to access and move around their home or community environment and ability to perform everyday tasks in their home. Strategies for independence or safety may be taught. Alterations to the environment or adaptive equipment may be recommended.
Rehabilitation	Enabling a person’s participation in life’s activities and achieving their goals. Rehabilitation of physical or cognitive impairments resulting from brain injury, spinal injury musculoskeletal injury or other medical condition or event.
Technology solutions	Recommendation of equipment and technology that will enable access to and participation in activities. Might include technology for learning, visual impairment or controlling the environment.
Activities of Daily Living – Assessment and Treatment	Assessment of the way everyday tasks are performed. Recommendations about better and safer ways to manage are made. Alterations to the environment or adaptive equipment may be recommended. Recommendations for funders regarding level and type of personal support may be supplied.
Older Person’s Health and wellbeing	Assessment of a person’s ability to manage their everyday activities in their living situation. Recommendations for safe and easy ways to do activities and equipment and home modifications may be provided. May include provision of a treatment plan to support and enable the person to achieve their goals.
Child health, Learning and Development	Assessment and therapy services for children (and their families/whanau) with a variety of diagnoses whose ability to play, learn or perform daily activities is interrupted. Includes assessment and working with clients (usually children) with Autism Spectrum Disorders. May include working with people to develop skills for handwriting and other tasks that required fine motor skills.
Mental health and wellbeing	Assisting participation in chosen activities in people who experience social or emotional distress or mental illness. Supporting wellness, self management, lifestyle changes and recovery. May include support with stress management, life enhancement, family therapy, psychotherapy spirituality and sexuality.
Driver assessment and vehicle modification	Specialised assessment of a person’s fitness to drive and conditions which should be placed on a person’s license. Assessment for modifications required to vehicles to enable driving.
Worker safety, assessment and rehabilitation	Assessment and treatment of the injured worker and advice to insurers regarding the needs of injured workers. Design and support of return to work or work rehabilitation programmes. Can include recommendations for injury prevention. May include ergonomic assessments of workplaces and tasks. May include Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE’s) to determine a person’s general work tolerances and abilities. May include vocational counselling through determining a person’s background, skills and abilities that can be transferred to alternative employment.
Workplace Health, Safety Design and Training	Evaluation of work environments, their design and practices in order to maximize safety, health and welfare of workers. Can include provision of workplace training for the prevention of injury, including moving and handling training. May include working with designers and architects to optimize healthy human-environment interaction.
Participation at home and community	Enabling a person’s participation in their chosen life activities and/or occupations. Includes people who have an age related disability, physical disability, mental health issue or intellectual disability .
Living well with Long Term Conditions	Enabling participation in everyday activities and roles in the presence of persistent challenges. Supporting self management and effective coping strategies. Includes Pain, fatigue, chronic health issues and disability. May include managing the changing needs caused by a palliative condition such as cancer and treatment so that a person can continue to do the everyday tasks that are important to them.
Managing Vision Impairment	Specialists who assess and treat the functional implications of vision problems. Includes managing symptoms (Glare sensitivity or migraine), teaching strategies for safety and independence with everyday activities, recommendations for modifications to home and work and special equipment, tools or aids.
Hand therapy, Splinting and Scar management	Specialists who assist people who have difficulty using their hands as a result of injury, a disease process or deformity.
Community/Organisational Strengthening and Culture Change.	Working with groups in community or organisational settings or policy development to enable participation for all people. May include review of Aged Residential Care or other residential facility to enable occupation for residents.
Mobility, wheelchairs and seating	Assessment of a person’s needs for specialized wheelchair and cushions, seating, and positioning. May include assessment of needs for mobility scooters.

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