Physiotherapist, Grade 3

Welcome to St John of God Health Care

St John of God Health Care is one of the largest private providers of health care services in Australia, employing more than 16,000 employees (caregivers). We operate 26 hospitals and services comprising more than 3,300 hospital beds, including home nursing, disability services and social outreach programs.

As a Catholic, not-for-profit group, we invest all profits to the communities we serve by updating and expanding our facilities and technology; expanding existing services and developing and acquiring new services; and providing Social Outreach services to people experiencing disadvantage to improve health and wellbeing.

St John of God Bendigo Hospital is a 122-bed contemporary private hospital located in central Victoria providing high quality acute medical and surgical health care services for people in Bendigo and surrounding areas.

Your role

As a Grade 3 Senior Physiotherapist, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy services as part of a collaborative multidisciplinary team. You'll provide expert clinical care, lead and mentor others within the discipline, and ensure services reflect excellence, innovation, and the highest standards of patient and caregiver experience.

The Position

• Provides clinical services to client groups and circumstances of a complex nature requiring advanced practice skills.
• Use of Evidence Based Patient treatment outcome measures and use of Patient feedback - satisfaction measures and quality assurance activities.
• Ensure prioritisation and delegation of duties of Physiotherapy caseloads for self and supervised staff.
• Promotes professional values and ethics in clinical practice.
• Demonstrates strong, current clinical knowledge and skills and applies this to contribute to supporting individuals and teams in clinical practice.
• Leads and contributes to undergraduate student programs and training.
• Leads and develops highly performing teams.
• Accepts responsibility for maintaining and strengthening own professional knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrates strong, current clinical knowledge and skills and applies this to contribute to supporting individuals and teams in clinical practice.

You will hold a registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) as a Physiotherapist, advanced clinical expertise and leadership within a specialised area of practice in healthcare or disability services, with a proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams.

To succeed in this multidisciplinary team, you'll bring advanced clinical reasoning, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement, including delivering high-quality hydrotherapy treatments.

Above all, patient care will be at the core of everything you do committing to and supporting our Mission and Values.

We can offer you

• Salary: $117,605 to $132,042 per annum plus 12% superannuation
• Permanent full-time position
• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:
• Novated leasing
• work related expenses
• self-education and

• additional superannuation

• Discounts on hospital services & private health insurance

• Option to purchase up to two weeks of additional annual leave
• Dynamic role in multidisciplinary team

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.

All caregivers employed by St John of God Health Care are required to be vaccinated from Influenza in order to fulfil the requirements of the role.

For enquiries contact, Berni Thomas, Allied Health Manager on