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Occupational Therapy jobs in Australia

  • 27-10-2011 9:36pm
    #1
    Young Power
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭


    Hello all, I would really appreciate your help if you can help me out at all! I am a qualified occupational therapist and am from Ireland, and I am moving to Australia this coming December. I really want to work as an OT over there and am currently looking for employment opportunities and wondering the best way to go about this. I have my working holiday visa and have applied to COTRB, but wondering how do I go about specifically finding work?
    Regards
    Catherine


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  • #2
    cat1983
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭cat1983


    seek.com.au is a great site if you are looking for work!


  • #3
    Vorsprung
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Vorsprung


    Have a look on the sites of the health authorities in the states in which you'd like to work eg for QLD search the Queensland Health Work4Us site. Otherwise just contact the hospitals directly and ask for HR.

    I guess if you need your registration to be sorted you'll need to get in touch with AHPRA or the relevant body.


  • #4
    DrIndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    There is a shortage of just about every discipline of health sciences in australia.

    Be cautious with recruitment agencies - they get a higher finders fee from very remote places than they do for city jobs and the more unscrupulous ones will send you to the gulf of carpentaria when you are looking for a city hospital job in melbourne.

    Try contact every head of department in the hospitals you want to work in directly. The community based OT is also run through the health service district so its a one stop contact person.

    There is private work in private hospitals but check T&C's as renumeration is often not as good as in the public system in that they may pay slightly more but not offer Salary Sacrificing which is where you pay less income tax via bizarre system of sending a portion of your gross income to a third party which reimburses you the amount with no tax paid. (this can save you a LOT of money though).

    Make sure you get in touch with AHPRA - OT division as they normally need a bizarre array of documents which are easiest sorted out before leaving the country.

    Finally - OT's and other health care practitioners here work out of hours and on weekends but from what i can gather, the work load is less and support is better.

    You can PM me for more info. I work as a doctor in oz.


  • #5
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Dr Indy, do you know what the demand for Dietitians is like over there?


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