Advanced Occupational Therapist (Rehabilitation)

This is an opportunity to define and embed the role of an Advanced Occupational Therapist in the inpatient rehabilitation setting. Our rehabilitation ward treats people with a variety of conditions including stroke, amputations, acquired brain injury and amputations.

The successful post holder will work collaboratively with patients, whānau and the rehabilitation MDT to identify and attain rehabilitation goals through the provision of specialist occupational therapy assessment and intervention.

This role also provides mentorship to two Occupational Therapists working within the rehabilitation team.

We are in an exciting time with a coordinated rehabilitation programme of work being undertaken and this role will have a key part to play in informing and advancing this from on Occupational Therapy perspective.

This is a new role for our team and will initially be for a fixed term of 12 months. During this time we will evaluate the role to assess its imp...