Podiatrist - Melbourne

Opportunity Overview

As a mobile Podiatrist across the Melbourne region, you'll enjoy the benefits of working for a leading healthcare organization that values its people, health & well-being and has a flexible approach to work life balance. Working as a Podiatrist, you'll be joining a team focused on delivering high-quality podiatry services to clients in aged care facilities and communities, providing comprehensive podiatry assessments and treatments.

We currently have opportunities within the VIC metro area and Point Cook/Tarneit area, as well as QLD Brisbane Metro Area (North, South, East, West Brisbane). This is a locum role with the potential for a full-time role if suitable. We understand that Melbourne/Brisbane are large locations, and we will work with you on locations that suit you and where you are based.

We limit the number of consultations per day to ensure you have the time to provide quality foot care, education, and assessments to your patients and build long-lasting relationships.

In this role, you will provide high-quality podiatric care to residents across a range of aged care facilities and client's homes with regular treatments, building relationships to maximize foot care and overall providing better healthcare outcomes for all our patients in a way that best suits their needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Assessing, diagnosing, treating, and evaluating abnormalities and diseases related to the foot and lower limb
• Diabetic foot health assessments
• Contributing towards the patient's chronic disease management plan
• Providing treatment for high-risk patient groups
• Offering footwear and foot care advice and education to patients, family members, staff, and carers
• Making referrals to other healthcare professionals as appropriate
• Biomechanical assessments
• Maintaining quality documentation and treatment planning procedures
• Undertaking a range of administrative tasks such as ensuring your stock levels are maintained, and that equipment is kept in good working order, daily reports, and handovers to all staff.

About You

We are looking for clinicians who share our vision to deliver high-quality healthcare services in Australia. As an experienced or new graduate clinician, you love to make a difference in the lives of Australians by working with them to improve their foot function and mobility, and adding value by establishing and coordinating patients' treatment plans.

This role suits a qualified, fully AHPRA-registered Podiatrist. Ideally, you will have a minimum 1 year's experience in a community or Aged Care setting. As a mobile Podiatrist, you will need to be comfortable traveling to our clients located as mentioned above and as such, provide your own vehicle.