Rehabilitation Consultant

  • Cairns
  • Generation Health
This is a unique opportunity! Acumen is the only rehabilitation service provider to ADF personnel. Your rewards are truly meaningful and purposeful. Be part of a team that gets our military fully fit and ready to defend and protect Australia. You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services.

Taking a more holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing.
Perform a variety of assessments depending on your area of clinical expertise. This could include functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments
Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including the employee who has suffered injury, illness, or trauma, medical specialists, and other treatment providers
Case management for a varied portfolio.

A unique opportunity to support workers with injuries across a broad range of schemes. This can include clients under Work Cover, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other Comcare portfolios with exposure to industries like transport, agriculture, government, construction, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and professional services. As such, no two days will be the same with such a diverse range of industries and client groups to work across.

In this hybrid role, your work place may vary. The Acumen office is located in the heart of tropical Cairns on the beautiful esplanade. Work amongst your local community including ADF bases with work from home options. Thrive amongst a diverse team of passionate allied health professionals. Enjoy continual professional development a collaborative team environment, regular social activities and access to an extensive suite of employee perks such as retail and gym membership discounts.

Joining a high-quality service provider, you will be SUPPORTED and MENTORED through direct interaction and an extensive onboarding process (incl. ongoing shadowing) to build your technical knowledge and expertise and enable your success.

What will make you successful:

Current unrestricted registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC/RCAA)
Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology or Rehabilitation Counselling
Clinical reasoning
Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
Passion to help people rehabilitate

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen Health (part of the APM Group ASX: APM) delivers the highest standard in services across personal injury and occupational health. The team at Acumen Health focus on recovery and function to get clients back to work and back to life whatever their age, stage, or situation. Our personal injury division provides services through federal and state-based Workers Compensations, Motor Accident Schemes and Life Insurance.

Joining the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of 13,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

Ready to join?

Click APPLY now and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 or connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawhinney

We're committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity. We welcome all people to join our team, including people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, living with disability, all gender identities, LGBTQIA+, people of any socioeconomic status, of any age, race, national origin or ethnicity. We believe each person’s uniqueness makes us even better at the work we do.