OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST (0.5FTE)

QE Health (formerly Queen Elizabeth Hospital) on the shores of Lake Rotorua, is a centre of excellence for rehabilitation services.

Our approach focuses on facilitating opportunities for a person to increase resilience and self management to attain health / optimal wellbeing.

We are seeking an enthusiastic NZ registered occupational therapist to work in a progressive multidisciplinary rehabilitation service;

- chronic pain programmes

- community rehabilitation programmes for a range of disabilities

- vocational assessment and rehabilitation for injury related conditions

- group education

- injury prevention

Experience is preferred, however training is provided. Clinical supervision and support towards external training is provided.

For application form, position outline or information please contact:

Gail Powell, Allied Health Administrator

Telephone (07) 348 0189 Extn 734

Email : gail.powell@qehealth.co.nz

Click here for a job application form

QE Health provides services for people with musculoskeletal disorders.
We focus on helping people with physical conditions to remain healthy.
We use a combination of therapies in our rehabilitation programmes.

Philosophy of QE Interdisciplinary Approach

Interventions are based on a health philosophy fundamentally different from most. Sixty years ago Dr. Wallis established the style of intervention that has become QE Health's speciality. As Dr. Wallis used to say, 'Now you have treated the body, we will heal the whole person, including the body'. We aim to help people to be healthy as they now exist. Two central assumptions underpin such an approach.

We believe all people have unique potential and are of value, irrespective of any physical limitations.
We believe that people need to take personal responsibility for their own lives and not assume that others can make them healthy. Consequently, we expect people, when provided with the appropriate resources, to be responsible for their own health and to strive to be valuable, contributing members of their community.

These values determine the core characteristics of our interventions, which are:

�All people are unique, therefore.�
Clients are assessed individually and holistically. Previous rehabilitation, medical interventions, family and other relationships, work history, personal skills, interests, dreams and aspirations, perceptions of self and others, health and life are considered to facilitate an intervention which provides a.�
Cohesive, interdisciplinary approach utilising.�
Time and space apart from everyday demands to facilitate. �
The client to reflect and front up to the reality of their life and future in a.�
Safe environment so that they can innovatively explore options that they wouldn't try on their own and.�
Encourage them to accept full responsibility for their health and life then.�
Assist them to begin experimenting and applying this to their real life.�
In a manner that provides the person with the knowledge and experience of the effective change processes that enables them to develop coping skills, self-determination and problem-solving that is consistent with their unique identity, place, purpose, roles and responsibilities in their community.