Welcome to Ability Action Australia!

Join the Adelaide team at Ability Action Australia — a vibrant, multidisciplinary crew of 25 plus Allied Health professionals making a real difference in the community every day. Our team brings together Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners united by one shared purpose: delivering high-quality, meaningful support to NDIS participants across South Australia.

We're not your average allied health team. We combine genuine clinical excellence with a positive workplace culture. 

What Makes Us Different

Our leadership team is deeply invested in three things: your work-life balance, your career growth, and making sure you enjoy coming to work. That's not a line in a brochure — it's reflected in how we show up for each other every day.

✔ Flexible hybrid working arrangements — structured to suit your lifestyle, not just the organisation's.
✔ Supportive, multidisciplinary culture — collaborate with Occupational Therapists, Speech Pathologists, and PBS Practitioners who genuinely want each other to succeed.
✔ Career development pathways — whether you're early in your career or looking to step into a senior or leadership role, we invest in your growth.
✔ Community-based practice — meaningful, varied caseloads that keep your work interesting and impactful.
✔ Pet-friendly office — because great workplaces welcome the whole family (yes, including the four-legged members).
✔ Team social culture — daily coffees, lunches, and celebrations that make the office somewhere you actually want to be.

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We’re looking for a passionate Senior Occupational Therapist to join our multi-disciplinary team, supporting NDIS participants across Adelaide and surrounding areas (depending on where you live). You might find us in childcare centres, schools, aged care facilities, day programs, the community, homes, and/or our clinic space. 

Our seniors empower our clinicians while inspiring the kind of creative thinking that leads to the positive success stories we hear from our participants every day! You will...

• Manage an allocated caseload (based on your negotiated hours) and deliver timely therapeutic services 
• Assess participants' emotional, psychological, cognitive, developmental and physical level of function and capacity to perform ADL’s and IADL’s
• Provide complex therapeutic interventions
• Supervise and mentor junior clinicians
• Collaborate with our wider multidisciplinary team of Speechies, Physio's and BSP's.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Current registration with AHPRA as an Occupational Therapist
• Excellent time management and organisational skills to manage a varied caseload
• A pro-active attitude and interest in continually developing your skills
• Experience in mentoring and supervising other Occupational Therapists
• A genuine passion for working in the disability sector

Interested in finding out more? 

I’m Charlotte, a Talent  Acquisition Consultant at Ability Action Australia who will happily support you in the next step in your OT career!

Phone: 0448 947 019
Email: [email protected]

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.