ADF Rehabilitation Consultant

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen Health (part of the APM Group) 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.

This is a unique opportunity! Acumen is the only rehabilitation service provider to ADF personnel. Your rewards are truly meaningful and purposeful. Be part of a team that gets our military fully fit and ready to defend and protect Australia.

• Taking a more holistic care approach, work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing
• Perform a variety of assessments depending on your area of clinical expertise. This could include functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or activities of daily living assessments
• Collaborate with a variety of stakeholders including the employee who has suffered injury, illness, or trauma, medical specialists, and other treatment providers
• Work across ADF and DVA portfolios, supporting our Veterans and current ADF members.

Based at HMAS Stirling in Garden Island, you will enjoy a unique and exciting work environment.

What will make you successful:

• Current unrestricted registration with AHPRA, ESSA (as an EP), ASORC or AASW
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Osteopathy, Rehabilitation Counselling, Nursing, Psychology or Social Work
• Clinical reasoning
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
• Passion to help people rehabilitate
• 12 months registered work experience in your tertiary qualified health profession 
• Occupational Rehabilitation experience will be highly regarded
• Ability to work on base between the hours of 07:30 - 15:30 Monday to Friday

Joining the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of almost 15,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. Enjoy all the perks of a global conglomerate including reductions in gym and health insurance plus discounts at hundreds of retail outlets.

But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services.  

Ready to join?

Click APPLY now and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 or connect at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandawhinney

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.