Exercise Physiologist

**Description**

**Employment Type**:Full-time, Permanent.
**Classification**:Health Professional Level 3 (PN 31734)
**Salary**: $108,459 - $116,711 (Plus 11.5% Super)
**Location**:Canberra Health Services
**Section**:Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
**Closing Date**:**6 March 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**:
Mental Health, Justice Health and Alcohol and Drug Services (MHJHADS) provides support to children, youth and adults through inpatient and outpatient settings, community health centres, justice health facilities and other community settings, including people’s homes. We partner with our health care consumers, their family, carers, government, and community organisations to ensure that they receive the best possible care during their treatment and recovery.

The successful applicant will work across several of the MHJHADS services, including the AIMHS and ADS Withdrawal Unit.

The successful applicant of the HP3 Exercise Physiologist will deliver exercise physiology services and interventions across these MHJHADS services, delivering individual and group-based interventions. They will provide individualised assessments and exercise programs to complex mental health consumers with/without chronic health conditions under limited supervision. In this role you will contribute clinical expertise to the multidisciplinary team, assist and contribute to the service development and therapy processes and support health promotion strategies within Canberra Health Services.

The successful applicant will also be required to undertake professional development and clinical supervision and participate in quality improvement initiatives. It is an expectation that the successful applicant will provide supervision to staff at the Health Professional 1 and 2 Level as well as to students and clinically related staff (such as Allied Health Assistants). The position will report operationally to the Allied Health Manager of Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services alongside the HP4 Clinical Lead over the program area. Discipline specific support is available through the Exercise Physiology Profession lead.

This is a full-time position working Monday to Friday. Part-time may be considered for the right applicant.

**For more information regarding the position duties click here for the**_Position Description._**
- Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
- Current registration issued under the _Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011_ is required.
- 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**: 108,459.00 - 122,546.00

**Contact Name**: Jana Ethell

**Closing Date**: 06/Mar/2025, 6:59:00 AM