job number 02: OCCUPATIONal THERAPIST NEEDED!
LISTING CLOSES 24TH OCTOBER 2025
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On this page, you can dive deep into the details about our legend in need. Explore their diagnoses, important risk considerations, and get the full picture of their key needs. You’ll also discover what they’re really fishing for in the perfect provider.
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ABOUT OUR LEGEND
We are seeking an experienced Occupational Therapist to join a multidisciplinary team supporting a young adult male participant with complex autism (Level 3), intellectual disability, and epilepsy, who is preparing to transition into a Robust SDA environment in November 2025.
Primary Diagnoses:
Autism Spectrum Disorder (Level 3) – requiring very high support across all areas of daily living
Severe Intellectual Disability
Epilepsy
support needs:
Full assistance required for most activities of daily living (except completely independent mobility).
Strengths and engagement:
Highly active, sensory-seeking, benefits from structured community-based activities.
Responds best to consistent routines and familiar staff.
RISK CONSIDERATIONS:
Behaviours of concern: Aggression, property damage, escalation during transitions and routines
Requires low-arousal, trauma-informed approaches
Routine Entrenchment: Once habits are formed, they are extremely difficult to break.
Epilepsy management: workers must be comfortable following an Epilepsy Management Plan.
Staff safety: OT must be confident in low-arousal practice, and capable of managing situations where redirection may be ineffective.
Transition risk: the upcoming move is a high-stress period and requires proactive strategies to prevent placement breakdown.
Communication risk: strategies must be consistent, practical, and easily implemented by a rotating support team.
location
Location: Carnegie (family home) & Dandenong (SDA site).
service format & frequency
Weekly ongoing
Format: Face-to-face therapy essential, with more frequent sessions during the transition phase (Oct–Nov), then tapering once routines are embedded.
whAT YOU’LL BE DOING:
Lead the establishment of structured daily routines across home and community environments to be implemented by the SIL team.
Provide practical environmental recommendations for Robust SDA suitability.
Support functional skill development (personal care sequencing, hygiene prompts, tolerating transitions).
Deliver support worker education and training to embed routines and strategies.
Attend care team meetings (BSP, SIL provider, family, Support Coordination) as needed.
Provide clear, usable documentation (progress notes, strategy sheets, reports to inform Roster of Care and NDIA review).
Collaborate: To work closely with current Behaviour Support Practitioner, SIL provider, and Support Coordination.
WHAT OUR LEGEND REQUIRES FROM YOU:
Immediate commencement with intensive involvement during transition period.
Development of structured daily routines (morning, community access, evening) that can be embedded by support workers.
Practical strategies for ADLs, hygiene, mealtime, and transitions.
Environmental recommendations specific to a Robust SDA setting.
Collaboration with BSP, SIL provider, family, and support coordinator.
Capacity to deliver staff coaching and training in simple, transferable strategies.
Clear, concise documentation that can be used for training, progress monitoring, and NDIA reporting.
pREFERRED PROVIDER TRAITS:
Male OT: Preference for male OT due to family considerations, but female OTs are welcome to apply if confident and experienced with BoC.
Strong experience with Behaviours of Concern (BoC) and complex autism
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