Occupational Rehabilitation Consultant (OT, EP, Physio)

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Hobart, Tasmania, AUS
Hybrid
Entry level
Healthtech • Professional Services • Social Impact
The Role
Assess clients recovering from injury or illness, develop tailored rehabilitation and return-to-work plans, coordinate with employers, healthcare providers, and insurers, and provide ergonomic, functional capacity, workplace modification, and rehabilitation advice. The role manages cases end-to-end while supporting client independence, recovery, and sustainable employment outcomes.
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Why this role matters

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 relevant field.
  • AHPRA,ASORC professional registration.
  • 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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Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Skills Required

  • Tertiary qualification in a relevant field
  • AHPRA or ASORC professional registration
  • Pass a national criminal check before commencing employment
  • Current Working with Children Check (WWCC)
  • Full Australian working rights
  • Current driver's licence
  • Willingness to work in workplaces, client homes, and remote or onsite assessment settings
  • Collaborative, problem-solving mindset with professionalism and integrity
  • Client-centred care, empathy, strong communication, and adaptability
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The Company
16,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1994

What We Do

APM New Zealand is a health, employment, disability, and workplace-services provider supporting individuals, families, communities, and businesses across Aotearoa. Its services include allied health, physiotherapy, vocational rehabilitation, pain management, psychological intervention, employment support, community rehabilitation, and return-to-work programs. APM works with government agencies and insurers to help people recover from injury or illness, improve wellbeing, find employment, and participate in their communities.

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