Senior Occupational Therapist

Closing Date: 06/01/2026

**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Wellington - Petone - Cuba Street

Job Category: Health, Medical & Pharmaceutical

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

Our Wellington team is looking for a dedicated Senior Occupational Therapist to join other allied health team members to support people the way they deserve to be taken care of - the Habit Health way. This role can be based out of our Petone, Paraparaumu or CBD branches - the choice is yours

This is a role open to clinicians who have a minimum of 3-4 years under their belt and can hit the ground running. This is a fantastic role for a clinician looking to move towards that leadership pathway. Our OTs work on a variety of contracts, including Social Rehab, Vocational Rehab, Pain and TI, so there are many streams to grow in and lead from

**Main responsibilities**:

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

**The benefits of working with us**:

- We offer a market competitive salary and ensure that our teams feel valued.
- Monthly performance-based bonus to enable you to earn so much more
- Annual budget set aside for professional development / study
- Re-imbursement of professional registration / APC fees (pro-rated for part-time hours)
- Clinical supervision provided
- Work laptop and mobile phone provided
- Great team culture with regular social events, weekly treats, award schemes
- Well-being initiatives: annual eye exam, flu vaccination, access to EAP services
- Free gym and pool access at any of our Wellington based gyms

**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
- Must have NZ OT registration and current APC
- 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

**For Occupational Therapists based overseas**:

- As an accredited employer we will provide assistance in the AEWV process
- Support in gaining the NZ Occupational Therapy Board license
- Assistance in helping you settle into New Zealand
- Contribution towards relocation costs

_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.