Exercise Physiologist

**BRISBANE | Full-time | Currently taking applicants**:
**The Opportunity**:
We are looking for an energetic, engaging, and enthusiastic Exercise Physiologist to expand and grow our Brisbane team in Bowen Hills.

We are an innovative NDIS registered allied health service provider. We support our community with autism and other neurological challenges, through unique play-based therapies that our clients love. With multi-disciplinary facilities also in Melbourne, Sydney and the Gold Coast, and strong demand for additional locations, we are committed to building and nurturing a team of like-minded individuals.

Our foundational program is based on sensorimotor integration and our network of therapies includes Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Early Childhood Intervention, Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology.

**Why join us?**:
**A unique culture**

We are a supportive team with a focus on developing our capacity to ensure our clients receive the best possible care. We are a team that celebrates birthdays and successes and truly cares about ensuring that both our team and clients feel safe, respected, and recognised.

**Therapists talking to therapists.**

We focus on a holistic and multidisciplinary approach with a focus on optimising client outcomes. Time is provided in the working day for discipline specific and multidisciplinary team meetings to upskill and discuss cases with a multidisciplinary focus. There are opportunities to work directly with multidisciplinary therapists in joint sessions, groups, and other flexible therapeutic modalities.

**Proactive Personal AND Professional Development.**

We prioritise work/life balance, which is reflected in our team culture, underpinned by our ethos of strength-based approaches to our clients and team members. We offer ‘wellness’ leave days, flexible working arrangements, and culture building activities. To ensure our team stays up to date we offer an annual professional development budget, additional paid Professional Development leave, lunch and learns, and regular team meetings.

***You will be involved in**:

- Providing interventions to target reflex and sensorimotor integration whilst considering an individual’s sensory processing strengths and challenges, self-regulation and motor differences
- Facilitating functional and stimulating experiences to target and achieve individualised goals
- Implementing, monitoring and reviewing treatment plans
- Conducting neurodevelopmental efficiency tests to determine baseline and post-treatment data
- Providing high quality feedback and education to parents and caregivers
- Advocating for the child and family and supporting self advocacy skills
- Maintaining high quality documentation including written assessments and reports, and case notes for all clients
- Together with all staff, you will have a shared and overriding responsibility to support the company’s clients and their parents, carers and guardians during all contact points with the company.
- Compliance with NDIS code of conduct

**This is a position that will suit if you**:

- Love interacting with children in a play-based way and want to make a very real and tangible difference in their lives
- Are an intuitive person with high levels of energy, engagement and enthusiasm
- Share our core purpose of helping children with neurodevelopmental differences, and their families, to thrive
- Have an appreciation for a wide range of therapeutic approaches
- Are a neurodiversity-affirming practitioner who can advocate for clients from a strengths-based perspective
- Are looking for a company who will support your growth as an Exercise Physiologist

**Selection Criteria**:
**To be considered for this role, you must hold or be willing to obtain the following**:

- A relevant tertiary qualification in Exercise Physiology
- Appropriate Registration with ESSA (AEP)
- NDIS Workers Clearance and Working with Children Checks
- First Aid & CPR Certifications
- Have flexible work hours including a Tuesday - Saturday roster
- This is a hands-on and active role. You will regularly be required to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl and lift
- Demonstrated history of positive interaction with children with special needs or complex challenges
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work both collaboratively with members of a multidisciplinary team with a family-centred and strengths-based approach.

A career at Brain Train is more than just a job It’s an opportunity to join a community of like-minded professionals committed to empowering those with autism, development and neurological differences. Our commitment to creating an enjoyable and healthy workplace, life balance, and career development ensures a career path exists for high achievers.