Congratulations to Jess, our 2025 National 360 Early Career Excellence Award Winner!
Jess started working at National 360 as an Occupational Therapist in 2024 in our 360 GO Graduate Program, and she is so valued in our WA Team.
Jess is an exceptional clinician whose professionalism, warmth, and consistency make her an absolute standout, and a deserving winner of our Early Career Excellence Award. She brings a friendly, positive, and highly knowledgeable presence to the team and consistently demonstrates strong clinical and operational performance. Jess recently supervised a student with great success and is known for staying calm under pressure while keeping a positive perspective.
Additionally, Jess’ communication is always proactive and reliable, and our Clinical Practice Advisors (CPAs) regularly praise the quality of her reports.
We asked Jess some questions to learn more about highlights from her time working at National 360, the support she has received from across the country, and her goals for 2026. Read her full interview below:
As an early career clinician what has been a highlight of working at National 360?
A highlight has been forming relationships with the amazing Perth team! Also having the opportunity to learn about people’s lives and seeing how we can collaborate with them to achieve their goals. Highlights have included supporting a child to learn how to tie his shoelaces (over telehealth no less!), getting clients the support they need through written reports, and forming rapport and building relationships with clients.
You started with us in our 360 GO Graduate Program! How have you found the supports for clinicians at National 360?
Support has been incredible. Attending weekly supervision is a great opportunity to debrief and provide ongoing check-ins of more complex clients. I book Clinical Mentoring as needed and find this to be very useful when something pops up that I haven’t come across before.
The clinical consultations are really valuable in being able to dissect a complex case and work out how best to approach the situation. I’ve also been enjoying attending some of the interest groups, including mental health and assistive technology, whereby more informal discussions with peers are held and we lean on each other for support.
What are you looking forward to achieving in 2026?
I honestly love learning so much – isn’t it amazing that if you apply yourself you can learn anything? So I’m hoping to learn more about home modifications, assistive technology, and mental health this year – that’s what I’m hoping to achieve!
National 360 Annual Excellence Awards
We are proud to recognise the amazing work of our clinicians and team members each year at our National 360 Annual Excellence Awards. Our Early Career Excellence Award is awarded to the team member with less than 24 months of experience who demonstrates outstanding performance, initiative and clinical excellence with clients, and high performance in their role while representing National 360’s core values.
Congratulations again to Jess for being our 2025 Early Career Excellence Award winner! We can’t wait to see the fantastic things Jess will continue to achieve as an Occupational Therapist at National 360.
Find out more!
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- To see all the 2025 Award winners and the different categories we recognise and celebrate with our national team, click here.
- You can learn more about our End of Year National 360 Excellence Awards, and all the benefits and rewards we offer our team members at National 360 by visiting our Benefits & Rewards page.
- For more insight into our careers and current opportunities, visit our Careers page.
- If you’d like to find out more about our Occupational Therapy services, visit our Occupational Therapy page.