- Grade 3 - Senior Physiotherapist opportunity
- Kew and Fairfield location
- Permanent, part time 0.6 FTE (22.8 hours/week); Wednesdays and Fridays essential, other day negotiable
- Direct clinical provision of high quality and evidence-based cardiopulmonary assessment, intervention, education and management
- Provide and co-ordinate education to staff, clients and their families to enhance their understanding and management of their cardiopulmonary disease
- Act as a resource for other departments in clinical matters
- Lead quality initiatives and service development activities across HIP in relation to cardiopulmonary service provision
- Provide supervision and clinical support to staff and physiotherapy students
- Current AHPRA registration as a qualified Physiotherapist
- Current Victorian Driver's License
- Minimum of 7 years' experience as a qualified physiotherapist
- Experience working with clients with cardiopulmonary conditions or willing to undertake training/education and mentoring
- Effective communication skills
- Current National criminal history check, or willing to obtain
- A focus on wellbeing initiatives, with regular events and programs
- Confidential, solutions-focused employee counselling
- Ability to join Fitness Passport - Your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
- Salary Packaging – Increase your take home pay
- Discounts and Promotions always available through our Foundation
- Regular opportunities for professional development to assist you to reach your career goals
- Culture of continuous improvement
Grade 3 Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapist - Melbourne, Australia - St Vincent's Hospital
Description
About the Role
The primary responsibility of the role will be to provide senior clinical care; including assessment, treatment, evaluation and follow-up for cardiopulmonary rehabilitation clients. The role will ensure delivery of an effective, efficient, clinically relevant cardiopulmonary service.
You will also be responsible for supervision/support of other staff, service development and ensuring that the program provides high quality, evidence based clinical services that lead to improved health outcomes for clients.
Classifications for this position will range from VB7 – VC1 ($100,089 - $114,358 per annum, pro rata for part time).
Your Contribution
What we Offer
About Health Independence Program
This position is part of the Health Independence Program (HIP). The intent of HIP is to deliver improved outcomes for clients and to support hospital demand management and flow, through delivering integrated and coordinated care to clients across the hospital and community interface, reducing duplication and fragmentation of services and ensuring client centred care planning.
The position is part of the HIP Community Rehabilitation team. Community rehabilitation is currently provided from our centres at Kew and Fairfield.
The key aim of Community Rehabilitation is to help people who are recovering from traumatic injury or illness, are frail or chronically ill to regain optimal function and to allow people to maximise their independence.
The programs offer a supportive and dynamic team environment which focusses on patient-centred care.
Working at St Vincent's
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) is a leading teaching, research and tertiary health service. SVHM provides a diverse range of adult clinical services and is driven by values of Compassion, Justice, Integrity and Excellence.
Application
Please attach your resume and cover letter to your application.
Shortlisting for this position will commence immediately. We encourage you to apply promptly as the advertisement may close early should a suitable applicant be sourced.
We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is essential to our mission and diversity reflects the community we serve.
Please visit our website, for further information regarding our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Employment at SVHM.
SVHA has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases in healthcare settings. You may therefore be required to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including flu vaccinations).
This position is subject to a Victorian government direction regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Successful applicants must meet these vaccination requirements. Please contact us if you would like to know more.