Adf Rehabilitation Consultant (Edinburgh)

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen Health 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. Acumen Health is Australia’s exclusive provider of Occupational Rehabilitation services to the ADF.

**The role**: Based in either Adelaide or the Darwin area, this role will see you work across a number of ADF bases across Adelaide and/or the Northern Territory. You will enjoy diversity and the unique work setting that each Defence Force base has to offer. With all your travel and accommodation expenses covered, consider this a working holiday with purpose! Depending on your availability/preference for travel, choose to work across both States or just one.

Whichever base you’re working on, you can be sure that your role is truly meaningful and rewarding. Using your highly developed case management skills you will support our ADF members to return to a deployable status after injury or illness to defend and protect Australia by:

- Conducting clinical assessments to determine member and ADF Unit needs including consultation with key stakeholders to determine the most appropriate rehabilitation direction for the member
- Developing plans to guide and implement rehabilitation programs in collaboration with relevant parties.
- Seeking endorsement, implementing progressive work upgrades, and monitoring rehabilitation progress to achieve agreed rehabilitation goals
- Providing quality insights / training opportunities as a result of diverse caseload exposure
- Supporting upskilling, supervising and onboarding new and existing ADF consultants across the region
- Working with Team Managers on quality activities for on-base and off-base consultants.

KPI’s based on service delivery outcomes, NOT billable hours. Genuine person-centred focus and goal setting. This role will expose you to high level stakeholder engagement fast-tracking your career development pathways.

**What will make you successful**:

- Current unrestricted registration or membership with the relevant industry body (AHPRA, ESSA, ASORC/RCAA or AASW)
- Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Osteopathy or Social Work
- Strong clinical reasoning & passion to help people rehabilitate
- Ability to work the hours 07:30
- 15:30 across various ADF bases (NT and/or SA)
- Flexibility to travel across the Defence sites (sometimes at short notice)
- Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
- 12 months occupational rehabilitation experience
- Experience with the ADF or Veterans will be highly regarded
- Australian Citizenship

**Ready to join?**
- 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._ Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3qmfiz