Allied Health Assistant

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: $30 - $33

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 2168

**_Are you a current Austin Health employee?_**
- Grade 2 or 3 Allied Health Assistant
- Permanent full time
- Great staff benefits

Austin Health is a major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

**About the Physiotherapy Department**:
The Physiotherapy Department is committed to promoting the highest levels of care for our patients. In realising this goal, the department will lead and excel in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. The department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health, from the Emergency Department through to bed-based services and ongoing ambulatory care.

**About the role**:
As an Allied Health Assistant working in the Austin Health Physiotherapy department you will work collaboratively with the treating clinicians and wider physiotherapy department to provide safe, effective, patient centred care.

A regular day will see you:

- Assist in physiotherapy activities, as instructed by the physiotherapist including group classes, performing exercises, moving, transferring and ambulation of patients
- Independently provide clinical care to patients within a safe and appropriate framework as determined by the instructing physiotherapist.
- Set up equipment and store it away at the end of treatment sessions.
- Assist with maintaining a safe, clean, and tidy treatment area.
- Document patient treatment attendances on computer and/or in patient’s medical record in line with Austin Health medical record policies.
- Monitor equipment supplies and re-order as required.

You’ll join a friendly and supportive team who genuinely enjoys their work and the contribution they make.

**About you**:
Someone who is compassionate and dedicated to providing excellent patient centred care. Someone who works hard to improve patient centred outcomes related to their physical activity or function in a hospital or community setting/ Highly developed communication skills and an ability to interact with people from vast cultural/ linguistically diverse backgrounds.

This role requires you to have:

- Suitable qualification Certificate III or equivalent.
- Demonstrate initiative, problem solving skills and flexibility.
- Effective time management skills.
- Computer skills.
- A commitment to Austin Health values: Our actions show we care, we bring out best, together we achieve, and we shape our future.
- Preferably previous experience working with Physiotherapists in acute and sub-acute as an Allied Health Assistant (Physio),

**Our benefits**

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Work with us**

**Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the **position description** for further details.**

**Application closing date: 16 December 2024