Occupational Therapy Careers at PCT
Do Meaningful Work. Practise Well. Still Have a Life Outside Work.
People Centred Therapies was created because we believed allied health could be done differently.
We want participants to receive services that create meaningful and lasting change, and clinicians to have the time, autonomy, support, and working conditions required to practise at a high standard.
If you care about good clinical work, meaningful outcomes, and challenging ways of working that no longer make sense, you may fit well at PCT.
A Different Approach to Allied Health Work
PCT exists because we believe people deserve allied health services that genuinely improve their everyday lives.
To achieve that, we also believe clinicians need working conditions that allow them to think critically, practise well, keep developing, and build sustainable careers.
We are building an organisation where participant outcomes and clinician wellbeing are not treated as competing priorities.
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There is no compulsory Christmas shutdown at PCT.
You earn your annual leave, so you should decide when to use it. Work through Christmas if that suits you, take time off at another point in the year, or plan your leave around the things that actually matter in your life.
We do not require you to sacrifice a large portion of your annual leave simply because the business chooses to close.
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Flexibility should mean more than being allowed to work from home one day a week.
Our clinicians have genuine autonomy over how they structure their working week around their caseload, appointments, documentation, and other responsibilities.
Suitable non-face-to-face work can be completed from home, and community-based practice means you are not expected to spend unnecessary time sitting in an office simply to demonstrate that you are working.
We care about whether you are meeting your responsibilities and providing high-quality services, not where your laptop happens to be.
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Our base performance expectations are designed around what the business genuinely needs to operate sustainably, not around extracting the maximum possible number of billable hours from every clinician.
That gives you time to assess properly, think clinically, prepare quality work, complete your documentation, and provide meaningful intervention without maintaining an unnecessarily overloaded caseload.
Just as importantly, we want you to be able to finish work and have a life outside it.
Meeting your ordinary workload should not routinely require evenings, weekends, or sacrificing the things that matter to you outside your career.
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Meeting your base expectations is the job. Going substantially beyond them should be substantially rewarded.
PCT offers a performance-based bonus structure with earning potential well above the small incentive schemes commonly attached to allied health roles.
As your performance increases above the base expectation, your opportunity to share in the additional value you create also increases.
This means high-performing clinicians can meaningfully increase their earnings without giving up the flexibility, autonomy, and work-life balance that attracted them to PCT in the first place.
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Professional development should do more than satisfy registration requirements.
PCT provides a $1,000 annual professional development allowance and supports clinicians to continue developing expertise in areas that strengthen their practice and contribute to the services we can offer participants.
Where a clinician wants to develop a relevant area of specialisation, we are open to supporting that development beyond the standard allowance where it makes sense for both the clinician and PCT.
We want you to become a better clinician while you are here, not simply remain competent enough to keep doing the same work.
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We employ qualified clinicians because we expect them to think like clinicians.
You will have autonomy to organise your work, exercise clinical judgement, and take ownership of your caseload without unnecessary layers of management controlling every decision.
In return, we expect accountability.
We want clinicians who communicate when they need support, meet their responsibilities, reflect on their practice, use evidence to guide decisions, and speak up when they believe something could be done better.
Good clinical work. Genuine flexibility. Sustainable expectations. Exceptional earning potential. A career that still leaves room for the rest of your life.
Occupational Therapist
Full-time or part-time | Community-based NDIS role
As an Occupational Therapist at PCT, your role is not simply to complete assessments or fill appointments.
Our mission is to help participants develop functional skills, overcome barriers to participation, improve quality of life, pursue meaningful goals, and work towards greater independence.
Your clinical work should contribute to those outcomes.
Depending on your experience and caseload, your work may include:
Capacity-building occupational therapy
Functional Capacity Assessments
Home and Living Assessments
Assistive Technology Assessments
Sensory assessment and intervention
Functional skill development
Participant and support-network education
Clinical report writing
Collaboration with other professionals
Measuring outcomes and adapting intervention when required
We expect assessment to inform what happens next and intervention to have a clear purpose. Where something is not producing meaningful change, we want our clinicians to recognise it, question it, and consider what should be done differently.
The Occupational Therapist We’re Looking For
Full-time or part-time | Community-based NDIS role
Qualifications matter, but so does how you think about your work.
We are looking for someone who shares our belief that good allied health should be individualised, evidence-informed, practical, and focused on outcomes that matter to the participant.
Bachelor or Master of Occupational Therapy
Current AHPRA registration
Current driver licence and access to a vehicle
Strong written and verbal communication
Ability to manage a community-based caseload
Commitment to individualised and evidence-informed practice
Willingness to learn, reflect, and develop clinically
Ability to work with autonomy and take responsibility for your clinical work
Interest in measuring whether intervention is creating meaningful change
Willingness to question established approaches when there may be a better way
NDIS experience is useful, but alignment with how we practise and willingness to develop are more important than simply having worked in the sector before.
What You Can Expect From Us
Our vision is for people to receive allied health services that create meaningful and lasting outcomes, while clinicians have the conditions they need to practise at a high standard.
That means our employment model needs to reflect the same values we expect to see in our clinical work.
No compulsory Christmas shutdown
Use your annual leave when you choose
Flexible working arrangements
Work from home for suitable non-face-to-face work
Achievable base performance expectations
Performance-based bonus opportunities
$1,000 annual professional development allowance
Support for relevant clinical specialisation
Travel reimbursement
Laptop and mobile phone
Administrative support
Clinical support
Full-time and part-time opportunities
You’ll Probably Fit PCT If You…
Care about whether your work genuinely improves someone’s everyday life
Want to understand the person rather than simply complete an assessment
Believe functional skills and meaningful participation matter
Value evidence but expect it to translate into practical action
Think critically rather than accepting “that’s how we’ve always done it”
Want autonomy and are prepared to take responsibility for it
Are comfortable recognising when an intervention is not working
Want to continue developing your clinical practice
Believe clinicians should be able to build sustainable careers
Want to contribute to raising the standard of allied health practice
Want to Help Us Build Something Better?
We are trying to build the kind of allied health organisation we wanted to work for ourselves: one where participants receive meaningful, high-quality services and clinicians are given the conditions to do their best work.
If that sounds like the type of organisation you want to be part of, we would like to hear from you.
Send us your CV and a short introduction telling us about your experience, what you want from your next role, and why PCT interests you.