When you partner with Career Shift, you are partnering with presence and deep understanding for acceleration of mutual possibilities, and sustainable client results. Our team of Rehabilitation & Vocational consultants draws from over 60 years’ experience to achieve high success rates of perceived ‘difficult cases’.
Career Shift believes in removing barriers, focusing on a person’s abilities and possibilities instead. We then work to apply holistic practices to achieve sustainable results.
We understand the interplay of emotional support with practical strategies to fuel confidence building.
Career Shift brings a new perspective.
We hold it up and examine it from another light. We offer new aspects to the client, claims manager, and employer.
Our Values
We are courageous enough to name what’s real, define strategies and encourage evidence-based decisions. Functional and focussed on holistic, sustainable results, we understand the interplay of emotional support, practical strategies and how it fuels confidence building.
We base our process on innovative systems support to provide a structured approach and accessible knowledge. Relatability to all stakeholders and impartial advice fosters collaborative communication, Career Shift customisable solutions, and plans to ensure enduring results.
Our Team
Career Shift’s Team has over 60 years of accumulated experience in Vocational Rehabilitation.
We enjoy a cohesive and long-standing team of consultants. Their dedicated reflection of Self-evaluations and internal auditing and third-party auditing sees results. Our mentoring framework and managerial support provide long-term sustainability to clients and case managers.
Our team includes:
Occupational Therapists, Registered and Provisional Psychologists, Exercise Physiologists, Rehabilitation Counsellors, and Employment Consultants.
Guided by expertise.
Driven by passion.
Beginning in 2010 as a career transition provider, 4 years later Career Shift had achieved Comcare accreditation and grown to become a full vocational rehabilitation provider. We have achieved exceptional service provider results with the highest percentage of 87% Return to Work status rates in their field.
Rachael Buckland
Director / Business Owner
Specialising: Business Management and Ownership for over 12 years, RTW employment coaching for over 20 years.
With over 20 years experience in RTW career coaching, and 12 years business owner and strategic management Rachael enjoys endless success stories reshaping clients’ futures in the workspace.
Her success is founded on skills honed while coaching return servicemen and women that have deployed internationally to war zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Timor, and to disaster zones such as Tsunami recovery, flood rescue, and bushfire rescue.
Experienced in coaching WCQ, IP, and CTP clients post significant injury to consider alternative employment, Rachael provides intuitive and dedicated solutions. Rachael’s innate ability to balance key stakeholders while maintaining a focus on whole-person wellness is the foundation of her consistent achievements.
Thomas Wood
Rehabilitation Manager / Occupational Therapist
Specialising: Orthopaedic and Mental Health, Acute and Complex Case Management
Thomas has a 3-year background in Clinical Occupational Therapy in aged care until he transitioned to Career Shift. Thomas approaches his work through the philosophy of deliberate practice. This methodical and detail-driven approach creates continual improvement in the lives of the clients. Career Shift has formally recognised these attributes and leadership skills through promoting Thomas to Senior Rehabilitation Consultant and later to Rehabilitation Manager.
Thomas enjoys working with clients with a wide range of orthopaedic and mental health conditions, and who may have previously failed to engage in rehabilitation. He enjoys working with like-minded people at Career Shift. The honest, transparent collaboration and aligned values facilitate getting his clients back into meaningful work, be it paid employment, volunteering, or leisure activities.
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