Exercise Physiologist

Empower Minds and Bodies – Senior Exercise Physiologist, Metro South Addiction Mental Health Service
Make a real difference in the lives of people experiencing complex mental health challenges. Join Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services as a Senior Exercise Physiologist, delivering evidence-based interventions within a multidisciplinary team. Lead service innovation, support junior clinicians, and champion whole-person recovery.
Your New Role
As a Senior Exercise Physiologist, you'll deliver high-quality, evidence-based care to adults with severe and complex mental health concerns within our inpatient settings. You'll work collaboratively in an interprofessional team, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing through tailored exercise interventions.

This is a key leadership role that combines clinical excellence, service development, and mentoring responsibilities to help advance holistic, recovery-focused care across Metro South Health.

In This Role, You Will

• Provide evidence-based assessment, intervention, and evaluation for adult inpatients with complex mental health presentations.
• Deliver specialist exercise physiology services that promote recovery, physical health, and wellbeing.
• Lead and contribute to service improvement, research, and the development of clinical protocols.
• Offer supervision, education, and guidance to junior clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants.

About you:
You're a passionate and skilled Exercise Physiologist who thrives in dynamic, team-based environments. You bring advanced clinical reasoning, leadership qualities, and a strong commitment to improving both mental and physical health outcomes for consumers.

You Will Demonstrate

• Proven expertise in delivering exercise physiology services in complex clinical and/or mental health settings.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Confidence in prioritising, managing, and evaluating caseloads in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience mentoring and supporting less experienced clinicians or students.

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About us:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses .

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together .

Occupational group
Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support