Exercise Physiologist

This position is located in: Fortitude Valley

Close date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:59pm

**Position Details**

This community-based role works collaboratively as part of the wider multidisciplinary aged care team, to provide comprehensive and holistic support to older people, in order to support their health and wellbeing needs. This role reports to the Manager Clinical Services.

**Responsibilities**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide client supports within defined professional scope of practice, to include assessment, outcomes measurement and development of support plans and regimes to address client acute and chronic health needs.
- Build, maintain, and manage a caseload of aged care clients, in collaboration with the Aged Care, and wider organisational teams, ensuring optimal health and wellbeing outcomes
- Assist with development and promotion of individual and group Allied Health program offerings, to include health literacy and promotion activities in the community.
- Work collaboratively with the aged care team to promote holistic client support, to address health and wellbeing needs.
- Promote and provide education as to the functions and scope of Exercise Physiology practice to the Aged Care team, wider organisation and key stakeholders, as required
- Ensure accurate, thorough and timely record keeping, along with data collection and entry required for program reporting purposes
- Participate where required in internal and external audit and quality assurance activities, with respect to continuous quality improvement of exercise physiology service provision
- Provide support and mentorship to students, Allied Health assistants and/or Support Workers, as required to ensure optimal uptake and participation of rehabilitation/health promotion activities by client group
- Proactively ensure awareness of sector or program changes, e.g. in response to legislative or funding reform
- Under direction of ACS leadership team, participate in project or program development activities to ensure and maintain sustainability and growth of Allied Health provision

**General**
- Follow all organisational policies and procedures
- Participate in monthly supervision sessions and ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- Promote and maintain a safe and health workplace, ensuring adherence to WHS policies and procedures.
- Work within the mission, vision, and values of Footprints.

**Knowledge and Skills**

**Essential**
- Current, or eligibility for, ESSA Registration as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist
- Demonstrated clinical skills in Exercise Physiology practice including assessment and provision of appropriate and evidence-based exercise and rehabilitation programs to consumers with various health conditions
- Experience with development, implementation, and evaluation of group programs.
- Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal.
- Ability to support clinical education of Exercise Physiology students.
- Experience in client self-management strategies, motivational interviewing, and health coaching and lifestyle modification.
- High level organisational skills and computer literacy.
- National NDIS Workers Screening check or current Yellow Card.

**Desirable**
- Experience in working with the clients who are over 65 cohort.
- Experience with communities with low health literacy and socioeconomic disadvantage, and mental health and wellbeing challenges.
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team- Footprints Community acknowledges the traditional owners of the land and pays respect to Elders past and present and thank them for their wisdom and guidance._