Physiotherapy Manager

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Temporary, 9.5 months with possibility of extension and/ or permanency.
**Classification**: Health Professional Level 5 (PN 15025)
**Salary**: $145,253 - $162,877 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:The Canberra Hospital, Garran ACT
**Section**:Acute Allied Health Services - Physiotherapy
**Closing Date**:**25 February 2025

**What can we offer you**:

- Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
- Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
- Flexible working conditions.
- 11.5% Superannuation.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to discounted gym membership.
- Access to onsite Physiotherapists.
- Access to onsite cafes, staff cafeteria, pharmacy and gift shop.

**About the Role**:
An excellent opportunity exists to lead and manage the Acute Allied Health Services (AAHS) Physiotherapy at Canberra Health Services. AAHS Physiotherapy provides physiotherapy services across 7 days with extended hours of service provision. The manager is responsible for delivery of acute clinical services based predominately at Canberra Hospital campus with funded 63 FTE and staff head count of 80+ staff. Services include Emergency Department, Critical Care areas, inpatient medical and surgical wards, women and children physiotherapy services at Centenary Hospital for Women & Children and specialised tertiary outpatient services including off-campus Pain Management Unit and Spinal Pain Service. AAHS Physiotherapy has well established advanced musculoskeletal practice physiotherapy positions in the Emergency Department, Orthopaedic Screening and Rheumatology and working to expand into Neurosurgery/Spinal Pain and Hand Therapy.

AAHS Physiotherapy department is a progressive and innovative department committed to service development and redesign, quality improvement and research.

The department is committed to teaching and training with 80+ physiotherapy student placements for 2025, focused clinical skills and knowledge education and training programs for new graduate, early career physiotherapists and experienced clinicians; and has established training pathways for advanced practice physiotherapists. Staff are supported with clinical supervision, funded external professional development and organisational education /training programs.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
- Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

**To Apply**:
Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

**Our**Vision**: creating exceptional health care together
**Our** **Role**: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
**Our**Values**: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind
- The new state-of-the-art Building 5 is now officially open at Canberra Hospital. This 44,000sqm, nine-storey facility, the largest healthcare infrastructure project in the Territory’s history, delivers cutting-edge acute clinical services. Building 5 seamlessly integrates with existing campus buildings, ensuring smooth public access, patient transportation, and efficient logistics._

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**Job**: Allied Health

**Salary Range**: 145,253.00 - 162,877.00

**Closing Date**: 25/Feb/2025, 6:59:00 AM