Occupational Therapist - Graduate Program 2026

Welcome to Ability Action Australia! We’re a national therapy services provider helping NDIS participants, kids, teens and adults get more out of life every day.

Our teams are supportive, our vibes are friendly, our supervision is actually weekly (shocking, we know), and our Grad Program is designed to turn you from “fresh grad” to “confident clinician” in record time, without the burnout.

Job Description

Where your OT career begins… and boredom ends.

Hey future OT legend!

If you're graduating in 2026 and looking for a workplace where you feel supported, valued, celebrated, mentored and occasionally fed snacks? Congratulations, you’ve found your people.

Welcome to Ability Action Australia.

Where careers grow.

Where grads thrive.

Where “I have no idea what I’m doing” becomes “I’ve SO got this.”

And where OT jokes are not only welcomed but aggressively encouraged.

🌟 ABOUT US

We’re a national therapy services provider helping NDIS participants, kids, teens and adults live their best everyday lives.

We’re supportive, a little silly, very passionate, and big believers in

✔ 1:1 Weekly supervision that actually happens

✔ Growth without burnout

✔ Teams who lift each other up (figuratively, unless you’re into manual handling)

✔ Turning fresh grads into confident clinicians

OTs love working with us because we combine structure + freedom, support + independence, and professionalism + fun.

Basically, it’s the OT version of a perfect balanced meal.

🥳 WHY YOU’LL LOVE OUR 2026 GRAD PROGRAM

Forget “sink or swim.”

We’re more “floaties on, snacks provided, water temperature perfect.”

Here’s what you get

💰 A guaranteed salary of $86,400 including super

🚚 Relocation allowance for OT & Speech grads

🚗 KM travel reimbursement

📚 $1,500 annual PD allowance

🎯 Performance-based incentives (aka treat-yourself bonuses)

💻 Laptop, smartphone & clinical toolkit

🌈 Flexibility Work from home, a café, or our office/clinic

🛡 Professional indemnity insurance

💸 Salary packaging options, including novated leasing

🤝 Weekly supervision, mentoring & a buddy who ACTUALLY replies

Basically: you’re supported, resourced, celebrated and set up to win.

🙌 WHO YOU ARE

You’re a soon-to-be graduated OT who is

• Curious and compassionate
• Excited to learn and try new things
• Keen for a workplace with flexibility, growth and genuine fun
• Ready to make a difference in people’s lives
• Not afraid of a good OT pun (bonus points if you make your own)

You bring the passion.

We bring the support.

Together? Unstoppable.

💙 READY TO LEVEL UP YOUR OT CAREER?

I’m Carla Morris, your Grad Program wing-woman, real-life human contact, and the very enthusiastic recruiter who will happily chat your ear off about all things AAA, grads, OT life, and where to hear the best music in Melbourne.

📞 Phone: 0430 652 332

📧 Email: c.morris@abilityactionaustralia.com.au

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carla-morris-52590138/

Let’s make your first year as an OT the best year yet.

Bring your energy, your curiosity… and your favourite pen.

We’ll handle the rest. 🌟

Additional Information

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.