Senior Occupational Therapist

Habit Health
New Plymouth, Taranaki
Full time
1 day ago
Closing Date: 07/09/2025
Job Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Taranaki - New Plymouth - Gover Street
Job Category: Health, Medical & Pharmaceutical

Job Description

Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider, specialising in the rehabilitation space. We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.

Our bustling New Plymouth clinic on Gover Street is looking for a dedicated and experienced Occupational Therapist who will work with other allied health team members to support people the way they deserve to be taken care of – the Habit Health way. This role is perfect for a Senior clinician who is about 5 years into their professional growth and is looking for a challenging role full of opportunities. This role will focus on Social Rehab and also requires some mentorship of junior staff.

Main responsibilities:

  • Develop / implement in-clinic and community rehabilitation programmes
  • Liaise with allied health team members
  • Create patient reports on client abilities, goals and best practice intervention
  • Utilise diary management software

The benefits of working with us:

  • Annual budget set aside for professional development / study
  • Relocation allowance should you move to New Plymouth for the role
  • Monthly bonus scheme aimed at boosting your earnings!
  • Re-imbursement of professional registration / APC fees (pro-rated for part-times hours)
  • Active manager feedback and clinical mentorship aimed at growth and excellence
  • Clinical supervision provided
  • Opportunities to develop clinical skills in rehabilitation
  • Permanent part-time role with clear career progression
  • Great team culture with regular social events, weekly treats, award schemes
  • Well-being initiatives: annual eye exam, flu vaccination, access to EAP services

Provision of enhanced AI tools aimed at boosting your performance:

Habit is proud to have introduced Heidi notes for all its clinicians to ensure they have access to the best possible tools to help them excel. Heidi is an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation and decreases administrative work. This enables you to focus on clinical care and excellence. In turn, you will be better equipped to make best use of our uncapped incentive programme that enables clinicians to earn an extra performance bonus every single month!

The ideal candidate:

  • Must have NZ OT registration and current APC
  • Ideal to have 5 years' experience as an OT
  • Ability to effectively manage your time and caseload
  • Full NZ Driver’s license for community rehabilitation
  • Excellent communication skills – you will be meeting new and varied people every day!

Please refer to job no 2084 in your cover letter when applying for this role.

If you have any questions, email hrteam@phg.co.nz

Confidentiality is assured.

Habit Health is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity hiring and providing a safe space to people of all cultures, languages, experiences and backgrounds.

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