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Rehabilitation Consultant (OT, EP, Physio, Osteo, SW, Counsellor, Rehab Counsellor)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Tertiary qualifications in occupational therapy, physiotherapy or exercise physiology
  • Registration with AHPRA or ESSA as an EP
  • Pass a national criminal check prior to commencing employment
  • A current WWCC (Working with children check)

Responsibilities

  • Assess clients’ rehabilitation needs following injury or illness
  • Support clients to define meaningful recovery or employment goals
  • Manage cases end-to-end, coordinating with workplaces, healthcare providers, or insurers
  • Provide expert advice based on clinical specialism

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Empathy
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork

About the company

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Early Start Australia

Early Start Australia is a national organisation committed to delivering evidence-based best practice early intervention and therapy services to children, young adults and families.Our systems, processes and infrastructure support our therapists across Australia to deliver flexible services that meet the needs of our clients.Headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, Early Start Australia has clinics in every state and territory creating a strong community of allied health professionals with the collective knowledge and expertise to deliver the best outcomes to our clients.

Company details

Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

Job Description

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, you’ll walk alongside clients as they navigate recovery, return to work, and help them to reconnect with what matters most.

What you’ll enjoy...

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 occupational therapy, physiotherapy or exercise physiology
  • Registration with AHPRA or ESSA as an EP
  • 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 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 discussion, please call Hediyeh Mossavat on 0409 412 975

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