Occupational Therapist - Rustenburg at Anglo American

Job Description:

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Act as a role model and reinforce a workplace culture where safety and health for the site is paramount.
• Provide an environment for team to challenge and act on unsafe behaviors without repercussions.
• Identify specific risks within working area and adhere to discipline-specific plans/system to avoid these risks.
• Conduct tests to assess functional, emotional, psychological, and physical capabilities.
• Plan and direct specific therapeutic programs for individuals using vocational (jobs or careers), recreational, remedial, social, and educational activities.
• Assist patients to gain, or regain, skills in work environment through recommendations on graded individual / group therapy.
• Monitor progress of patients and adjust the treatment program where required.
• Assess the ability of injured workers to return to their usual employment or to perform alternative duties.
• Assess the ability of injured employee/s to return to their usual work. Treat individuals whose ability to function in a work environment has been impaired and arrange alternative employment if required. Plans work activities and evaluates the patient's progress.
• Conduct functional job analyses according to RFA procedures and revised every third year or when required.
• Conduct work visits as part of investigations and or on the job assessments for proper placement of workers.
• Ensure that standard operating procedures and necessary protocols are in place.
• Communicate new or revised standards or protocols to the RFA operators and measures the level of compliance to standards and protocols by conducting quality control surveys and reviewing client feedback.
• Ensure that patients activities and progress are recorded in relevant system.
• Compiles monthly and quarterly stats reports on RFA test outcomes.
• Execute delivery of sustainability activities as relevant to discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time.
• Act in line and support a purpose-led, high performing culture, applying the company values and principles of inclusion and diversity.
• Implement management processes for employee & contractor management within work area.
• This role is at the Safety, Health, and Environment department at a Band 7 level reporting to the Senior Occupational Medical Practitioner.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy (NQF level 7)
• Registered with the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as an Occupational Therapist

Experience

• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in physical / vocational rehabilitation would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of process and mining operations would be advantageous.