Physiotherapist - Hospital Admission Risk Program and Chronic Rehabilitation Specialist

2 days ago


Burwood East, Victoria, Australia Eastern Health Full time
About the Role

This exciting Grade 2 physiotherapy position at Eastern Health offers a unique opportunity to utilize your clinical expertise and relevant experience to support recently discharged patients following admission, as well as apply your self-management and coaching strategies across a variety of patients with chronic disease health burdens.

This highly rewarding role provides the opportunity to extend your acute and/or community physiotherapy skill sets into the provision of physiotherapy services to patients with the intent of reducing their risk of hospital admission.

As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to apply innovative strategies and deliver exceptional support to patients, working closely with highly experienced senior physiotherapists and senior multidisciplinary team members.

You will have excellent communication and advocacy skills, great initiative, and a passion for challenge, growth, and change. You will also possess the proven ability to actively collaborate, lead, and deliver work to improve outcomes and experiences for your patients and teams.

There will also be opportunities for applying and developing your skills as a supervisor with our Allied Health Assistants, pre-registration physiotherapy students, and grade 1 rotational physiotherapists.

In return, you will have access to numerous supports and opportunities to continuously improve yourself and your service, with regular clinical supervision with our Grade 3 senior clinical physiotherapist and operational support and coaching with our Integrated Care Team Leaders.

You will also have access to our large Eastern Health Physiotherapy Aged and Complex Care and Cardiorespiratory Clinical Leadership Groups across our network, led by Grade 4 Physiotherapy Clinical Leads, and have opportunities for involvement in professional development, quality improvement, and research.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will possess:

  • Recognised tertiary qualification in Physiotherapy
  • Current registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia
  • Eligibility for practicing membership of the Australian Physiotherapy Association
  • Demonstrate recent experience in managing a diverse workload in a range of clinical areas, including cardiorespiratory and/or aged and complex care (within bed-based or community environments)
  • Advanced clinical skills in managing a complex caseload and comprehensive discharge planning using a client-centred approach
  • Experienced in or interested in developing skills in the development of treatment strategies using a client-centred, health coaching approach with a focus on self-management
  • High-level communication skills, both written and oral
  • Demonstrated capacity to work and show leadership in a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience in supervision of staff and/or students
  • Demonstrated ability to introduce innovative practice
  • Commitment to improving own practice and undertaking quality and research activities
  • Demonstrated understanding of professional codes of conduct
  • Current Victorian Driver's Licence
Desirable Qualifications

The following qualifications are desirable:

  • Recent experience within acute bed-based services
  • Experience in supervision of students and/or post-graduate clinicians
  • Working towards post-graduate qualification would be highly regarded
  • Member, Australian Physiotherapy Association with current involvement in relevant special interest group


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