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Strive Occupational Rehabilitation

Occupational Rehabilitation Services

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Strive is a military informed care organisation and has been delivering services to Veteran’s for over 10 years. Strive assists with the transition from Defence to living in the civilian world, identifying new career pathways and helping to set up meaningful support networks for Veteran’s and their families.

Where does Strive service?

Strive services all of Queensland and Northern NSW and has physical office locations in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Townsville and Cairns. As an organisation Strive has been in operation for over 20 years.

What can you expect from a Strive Consultant?

Once a referral has been received, your Strive Consultant will be in contact with you to introduce themselves and book in a time to meet with you for your initial assessment. We understand that each person’s journey is unique and so are their goals and needs. The initial assessment is to help the Consultant to understand you and your journey and for you to identify what your goals might be for the next 3 to 12 months.

Your Strive Consultant will help you develop your goals, and from there help you begin taking the steps to achieve these goals. Your Strive Consultant will also help communicate with your Treating Team to ensure all goals set are suitable and appropriate based on your health conditions.

Along the way your Strive Consultant will be your primary point of contact to discuss any of your rehabilitation needs, and your Strive Consultant will keep in regular contact with you based on your requirements.

Your Strive Consultant will have an Allied Health background and will be skilled in working with Veteran’s. Your Strive Consultant will be helpful, compassionate, responsive, professional and knowledgeable to help guide you on your rehabilitation journey.

What support may I be able to access?

After leaving the Defence Force it can be very difficult to find the right Treating Practitioner’s to help you manage your health conditions and injuries. Knowing where to start and how to get referrals can be overwhelming. At Strive we can assist you in linking in with a range of health and medical professionals throughout Queensland to help get you the right support at the right time for your needs.

This can involve a Strive Consultant attending your Doctor’s appointment with you to help talk about the referrals you may need, and helping to get the relevant referral paperwork and appointments scheduled in so you can continue your recovery.

Our goal is to help you find the right people to be able to manage your health conditions independently, but knowing where to start is often overwhelming.

After having the discipline of a structured routine in Defence, it can feel overwhelming with having a lot of spare time after discharge. Learning to navigate the daily routine outside of Defence and linking with new activities can be challenging.

As part of the support Strive offer your Consultant will spend time understanding your individual interests and needs and may assist with linking you to activities in your local area which can increase social connectedness, well being and belonging. This could include support with activities such as:

  • Gym or health club memberships
  • Short health and wellbeing courses
  • Yoga or meditation courses
  • Linking in with Veteran specific organisations like Mates 4 Mates, Young Veterans, RSL
  • Life skills courses
  • Finance courses
  • Learning a new language
  • Learning a musical instrument

For Veteran’s who are wanting to re-enter the workforce and have the medical capacity to do so, your Strive Consultant can help with you identifying what type of work you may be best suited for and to help you identify your future career goals.

Support to return to work can involve things like vocational counselling, which is exploring different career pathways, resume development, assistance with job applications, identifying your transferrable skills or Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) from your service, as well as assistance with cover letter writing and interview coaching.

It may also involve a Vocational Assessment which may help to determine if a tertiary pathway may be most appropriate to look at TAFE of University courses.

We can assist you to find full-time, part-time or casual work based on your medical capacity.

Why work with Strive?

Don’t just take our word for it. Here is some of the feedback we’ve had from our Veteran community:

“Your check in’s and check-ups and updates made me feel safe and supported. Your professional yet caring support has helped me immensely with my recovery.”

“Thank you very much for your kind words, I am also very pleased with the positive progress in all aspects going forward. I would also like to thank you for your efforts assisting me in this part of the journey. I greatly appreciate it.”

“To be honest after dealing with (another Strive Consultant) I thought no one could replace her, but you did an awesome job and I am very grateful for your hard work. Thanking you.”

“You did your work so well, but mostly you made me feel safe and comfortable in a time of darkness. Thank you for caring and looking after me and other Vets.”

“Thank you for the support I have received from yourself and Strive. You supported my attempts to keep working after suffering severe health issues. After being classed Totally and Permanently Impaired (TPI) and ceasing work you then assisted my health rehabilitation plan. Your support setting up Government assistance packages was invaluable.”