Rehabilitation Consultant (Rehabilitation Counsellor)

About Acumen

Experts in workplace health, injury management and safety, Acumen (part of the APM Group) delivers the highest standard in services across personal injury and occupational health. The team at Acumen 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.

• Apply your clinical reasoning skills to support people who have sustained a physical and/or psychological injury at work
• Taking a more holistic care approach, you will work within a multidisciplinary team to support the journey from rehab to healing
• Perform vocational assessments, counselling and a variety of other 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 injured employees and employers, medical specialists and other allied health professionals
• Using a patient centre focus, develop, implement and monitor rehabilitation plans
• Support injured workers in the Brisbane and/or Gold Coast area 

Enjoy meaningful and purpose driven work as you support your client return to the same job or to find a new employment opportunity.

Develop and broaden your skills as you work across a range of schemes. Your portfolio may include clients under Workers Compensation, CTP, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other Comcare schemes. Our industry and client base is diverse. You will be exposed to transport, agriculture, government, construction, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and professional services.

We’ll work with you to TAILOR a career pathway that meets your career goals. We have a variety of working options to fit your needs and will match you to what works best for you.

Joining a high-quality service provider, you will be SUPPORTED and MENTORED through direct interaction and an extensive onboarding process (incl. ongoing shadowing) to build your technical knowledge and expertise and enable your success. Part-time options available and work from home if/when you choose! You will be joining a thriving and high performing team of experienced consultants. Our proof is in our teams extremely low attrition rate, with new vacancies arising as a direct result of our continued growth in the Brisbane / Gold Coast area.

What will make you successful:

• Current unrestricted registration or membership with AHPRA,  ASORC or RCAA
• Tertiary qualifications in Rehabilitation Counselling, Psychology (Provisional is sufficient) or Occupational Therapy
• Strong clinical reasoning
• Ability to engage across multidisciplinary teams to support the achievement of a common goal
• Passion to help people rehabilitate and achieve outcomes

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.