Leisure & Lifestyle Therapist

• Award winning and innovative Aged Care Provider, including recipient of Xref's "Best Workplace Award 2023" and "Engage Change Champion Award 2023"

• Supportive and dynamic multi-disciplinary team
• Regular employee themed appreciation lunches and wellbeing events and an end-of-year party
• Robust employee recognition program
• Daily staff lunches
• Opportunities for mentoring and further career progression

A new year, new opportunities!

Fantastic opportunities are available for experienced and professional Diversional or Recreational Therapists to join our organisation in Sydney as a Leisure and Lifestyle Therapist. These are permanent full-time position based at our Hunters Hill and Randwick Campuses.

The Role

Reporting to the Leisure & Lifestyle Group Senior this exciting and unique role supports our residents to engage in meaningful occupations through the development and coordination of therapeutic activity and wellness programs. 

Using a holistic approach, our therapists aim to empower and engage residents living in a residential aged care setting to have purposeful engagement. The therapist achieves this by tailoring activities and tasks to meet residents cognitive and physical abilities. Activity programs are individualised and based on residents’ current interests and values and their preferences.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist the progression and coordination of services towards a therapeutic model by integrating the Occupational Therapy and Recreational Therapy models of practise and enablement.
• Assist with assessing residents’ cognitive abilities using Allen's Cognitive Levels.
• Prescribing non-pharmacological interventions for residents who require behavioural support to meet their cognitive or mental health needs.
• Actively contributing to the behaviour support pathway for residents with special behaviour needs, as part of a strong in-house interdisciplinary team.
• Creating a holistic approach to the development and maintenance of ‘better practise’ leisure and lifestyle programs specifically designed for our residents. This involves keeping up to date with recent literature published and current best practice.
• To ensure that your departments’ accreditation status is maintained, as well as compliance with all legislative requirements.
• Provide supervision to assistant support level staff while maintaining a clinical caseload of minimum 70%.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree trained Occupational Therapist with eligibility for registration with AHPRA and comply with the professional standards and code of ethics of Occupational Therapy Australia OR
• Experienced Diversional therapist or other therapist with a strong Leisure & Lifestyle/ Therapeutic Recreation related curriculum content
•  Eligibility for full membership of the Diversional & Recreation Therapy Australia and comply with the professional standards of the Diversional Therapy profession.

Essential Criteria

• Previous experience in an aged care or mental health care environment, specifically working with residents who are living with dementia.
• Previous experience in the supervision of support level staff.
• Ability to complete activity analysis and a good knowledge of the meaning and diverse use of occupation.
• Proven ability to plan, implement and evaluate programs for group and individual therapy.
• Willingness and ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• High level organisational and time management skills.
• Intermediate level of computer competency across a range of programs including Microsoft Word & Excel.

About Us:

Montefiore is an award-winning, Sydney-based aged care provider, with a proud 135-year history as a non-profit organisation founded on Jewish values. We support older members of the community to live with choice, dignity and wellbeing through trusted residential care, flexible home care and luxury retirement living. 

What we offer:

We offer a competitive remuneration package that includes NFP salary packaging, generous leave entitlements and a highly supportive workplace culture with a genuine passion for continuous improvement and excellence.

To find out more about what we do and to apply online, please visit our website: http://www.montefiore.org.au

All offers of employment are dependent upon successful completion of the organisation’s pre-employment check process. This includes (but is not limited to) the requirement to be willing to obtain a Criminal Police Check.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Loren Woolf, Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor on 8345 9158.

Please note that applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. As such, the closing date is subject to change without notice.