Early Career Occupational Therapist

We're Hiring: Early Career Occupational Therapist

📍 Location: Hobart, TAS

🕒 Full-time (flexibility for 0.8-0.9 FTE)

Are you an early career Occupational Therapist ready to grow your skills in a genuinely supportive, client-focused environment, all while enjoying one of Australia's most liveable cities? If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

About The Company

Our client is a well-established, multidisciplinary allied health provider with two thriving clinic locations across Hobart, alongside a strong community-based and hybrid workforce. They're known for building their services around the passions and strengths of their clinicians rather than boxing people into a fixed caseload. With a broad and diverse client base spanning paediatrics through to older adults, and across physical, psychosocial and neurological domains, this is a team that genuinely invests in giving early-career OTs room to explore, learn and specialise at their own pace. It's a values-driven, people-first organisation where your growth is treated as just as important as client outcomes.

About The Role

You'll be joining a vibrant, multidisciplinary team with the flexibility to work across clinic-based, community-based, or a hybrid mix, whatever suits your working style best. The majority of the caseload sits within the NDIS space, offering excellent exposure to a fast-growing and rewarding area of OT practice, with plans to diversify further based on your interests. Full-time positions are available, with genuine flexibility around 0.8 to 0.9 FTE for those seeking a bit more balance.

What You'll Do:

Conduct assessments, develop therapy plans, and deliver evidence-based interventionsWork across a caseload tailored to your clinical interests: paediatrics, adults, or a blended mixDeliver NDIS-funded supports as part of a predominantly NDIS caseload, with room to broaden into other funding streams over timeCollaborate with clients, families, carers, and a wider multidisciplinary teamMaintain clear documentation and contribute to goal setting and reviewsParticipate in team meetings, supervision, and ongoing professional development

What We're Looking For:

Qualified Occupational Therapist (AHPRA registered)Early career OTs and new grads warmly welcomed, full supervision and mentoring provided!Exposure to or interest in NDIS service delivery (training and support provided if you're still building this experience)Strong communication and interpersonal skillsA genuine passion for helping people build independence and improve everyday lifeComfortable working both independently and as part of a team

What's on Offer:

Warm, collaborative clinic culture with a supportive leadership teamFlexibility to shape a caseload around your clinical interestsFull-time or part-time hours (0.8 to 0.9 FTE considered)Mix of clinic-based, community-based, and hybrid working optionsCompetitive salary + superOngoing professional development supportThe chance to grow across a huge breadth of clinical areas early in your career

Why Hobart?

Beyond the role itself, you'll be based in one of Australia's most liveable and laid-back capital cities. Hobart sits on the River Derwent, with its fashionable Salamanca Place hosting galleries and cafes in old sandstone warehouses, and nearby Battery Point offering a historic district of narrow lanes and colonial-era cottages, all set against the backdrop of Mount Wellington, with sweeping views and hiking trails right on the doorstep. The city offers a balanced lifestyle with a strong sense of community, stunning natural beauty, and a relatively affordable cost of living compared to Sydney or Melbourne, plus a genuinely creative, close-knit community, home to MONA, one of the world's largest private art collections. Whether it's weekend hikes, harbourside cafes, or a slower pace after work, Hobart offers a lifestyle that's hard to beat.

For more information please reach out to camille@mediix.com.au