We are currently seeking a driven Occupational Therapist for a fulltime secondment contract based in Brightwater Oats Street!

Brightwater Oats Street is a purpose‑built, world‑leading rehabilitation centre in East Victoria Park that supports adults with acquired brain injury through an immersive 12–24 month program focused on rebuilding independence in daily living, mobility, cognition, and community engagement. With a home‑like environment featuring shared houses, independent living units, and facilities such as an education centre and gym, clients work towards personalised goals supported by an interdisciplinary team of allied health professionals, nurses, and support workers.

As an Occupational Therapist, you will assess the client, determine individual capabilities, and set realistic goals, facilitating the achievement of these goals while optimising the client’s functional performance relation to activities of daily living, wellbeing, leisure pursuits and vocation/education, within a residential or rehabilitation setting or in the community.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team the Occupational Therapist (OT) provides quality, appropriate and relevant OT services to meet the needs of Brightwater Care Group’s clients.

Brightwater can offer you:

• The ability to salary package – meaning you can legitimately pay less tax and increase your take-home pay

• 5 extra days of annual leave per year
• Our unique staff benefits program, including access to BrightwaterPlus which gives you discounts with over 370 retailers
• Private health benefits and discounts
• An interesting and rare caseload working as a specialist in ABI in a transitional rehabilitation setting.

The ideal candidate will:

• Registered as an Occupational Therapist with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Strong commitment to providing, and the capability to deliver, safe high-quality care.
• Demonstrated experience and competency as an OT to assess, plan, implement and evaluate client care.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills in various environments with a diverse range of people.
• Strong person-centred skills in communicating and engaging with clients with high support needs including cognitive impairment, brain injury, and dementia.
• Demonstrated ability to organise and prioritise tasks, work effectively under pressure, problem solve and meet deadlines.
• Working knowledge of occupational safety and health legislation; Aged Care Act (1997); and/or Disability Services Commission Standards (1988).
• First Aid Certificate less than 3 years old (desirable; essential if providing services for Brightwater At Home clients).
• Current ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence as defined by the Department of Transport WA (DoTWA)
• A safe, registered, and suitably insured motor vehicle able to be used for work purposes.
• Satisfactory National Police Certificate obtained within the last 12 months.
• Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver’s Licence
• Satisfactory National Police Certificate obtained within the last 12 months.
• Satisfactory NDIS Workers Screening Check

If you are passionate about working at a place where people are caring, authentic, progressive and courageous, and where people who thought they’d no longer be able to grow, are growing in new and different ways – a place where people can pursue the dignity of independence – then submit your application by COB 31 March 2026. Brightwater reserves the right to close this advert before this date. 

For confidential enquiries, please phone Zach Ooi on 0429088113 or email [email protected]

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