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Rehabilitation Consultant - Psych / Social Worker / Rehab Counsellor
Support people to rebuild confidence, independence and hope.
Every day, people recovering from injury or illness need support and guidance to take important steps forward. As a Rehabilitation Consultant with Konekt, you’ll walk alongside clients as they navigate recovery, return to work, and help them to reconnect with what matters most.
Expect your day to be full of variety and real impact where you’ll:
- Assess clients’ rehabilitation needs following injury or illness — physical, ergonomic, psychosocial or functional capacity evaluations.
- Support clients to define meaningful recovery or employment goals, then co-design and deliver tailored rehabilitation plans.
- Manage cases end-to-end: coordinate with workplaces, healthcare providers or insurers, monitor progress, adjust plans, and support sustainable outcomes.
- Provide expert advice — ergonomic, workplace-modification, functional capacity or return-to-work — based on your clinical specialism.
Build relationships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders: clients, their treating practitioners, employers, insurers — helping bring everyone together around a shared goal of recovery and reintegration.
Why you’ll love working at Konekt
- Flexibility and autonomy: Feel trusted and empowered to manage your own diary
- Leaders who get you: Be supported and mentored to achieve your goals by leaders who were once clinicians
- Tools to succeed: mobile, laptop, training and strong clinical frameworks
- Benefits that matter: incentives, salary sacrificing and optional extra leave
What you’ll bring
- Tertiary qualifications in Psychology (Provisional is fine), Social Work or Rehabilitation Counselling
- AHPRA, AASW or ASORC
- Pass a national criminal check, prior to commencing employment
- A current WWCC (Working with children check)
- Full Australian working rights
- A driver’s licence and willingness to work in different settings (workplaces, client homes, remote-onsite assessments and coordinate across stakeholders
- A collaborative, problem-solving mindset, accompanied by professional and integrity
And most importantly, a genuine commitment to client-centred care, empathy, strong communication and adaptability cross diverse client needs
Why Konekt, part of the APM Group
Konekt is one of the largest rehabilitation and workplace health providers in Australia. Each year, we help over 40,000 Australians back into work, recover from injury, and re-engage with their social and community life.
We’re proudly part of the global APM network committed to enabling better lives. Every day, we support people to overcome injury, illness or disability, helping them regain independence, health, work and community participation. When you join us, you’re joining a purpose-driven organisation that values care, growth and positive impact.
We want to hear from you, even if you don’t check every box
Konekt embraces DIVERSITY and places a high priority on the principles of respect, equity, and diversity. We welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
Enabling better lives starts with you. Apply now.
For a confidential chat please contact Amanda Whinney on 0458 379 067 / Amanda.whinney@apm.net.au
Join us as we continue to enable better lives!
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