Senior Physiotherapist – Community Outreach at Department of Health

Job Description

Senior Physiotherapist – Community Outreach at Department of Health

Tasmanian Health Service – North West Regional Hospital

To be Tasmanian is to pursue quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With quiet confidence, and with passion and perseverance, we pursue the extraordinary. Could you be Tasmanian?

You’ve invested in your leadership and your clinical skills so you can make an impression in your career, advancing the Community Physiotherapy profession and improving the lives of the people you serve. You could put this skillset into practise anywhere.

What’s different about Tasmania is our culture and our lifestyle. You will be encouraged to be yourself, to learn, to grow and to develop meaning in your work. You will have a powerful connection to your patients, and the community will encourage your success. Our isolation helps drive a culture of invention and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing. Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to breath-taking coastlines, National Parks or award-winning restaurants or bars. After a hard day at work, you don’t have to sit in a car or a train for an hour. You can decompress with a walk along your local beach or put on your boots and go tell it to a mountain.

We are small enough in Tasmania for you to shape and influence your work and make a real impact every day. Yet we are big enough for you to feel part of something important, somewhere you can belong and be surrounded by diversity, innovation, and friendships. Tasmanians are connected to the land where we live, and to the stories of the people who have cared for this place for tens of thousands of years.

There are over 30 of us in our Physiotherapy department working across the North West Region. In this position, you will promote and provide optimal specialist physiotherapy care to community clients at both centre based and in home locations across Primary Health Services North West. You will have a hands-on approach as well as provide consultancy and advisory service.

For more information on becoming a Senior Physiotherapist in North West Tasmania, or to learn more about what we can do for you (relocation, salary benefits, development opportunities, etc.) please email or phone Sam, our Deputy Manager: sam.sammut@ths.tas.gov.au or (03) 6493 6250

If you need any more convincing about our beautiful home, here it is: North West Tasmania

Note: – Please refer to the Statement of Duties for all the selection criteria of this position to address in your application.

Details of Appointment

Permanent, full time, day worker position working 76 hours per fortnight, commencing as soon as possible.

*notwithstanding hours to be negotiated with the successful applicant

• Applicants should note that, for a period of twelve months from the date of publication, this selection process may be used to fill subsequent or similar full time and part time vacancies.

Salary: $101,108 to $119,430 per annum + 10.5% superannuation

You’ll have access to salary package a range of benefits including living expenses up to $9,010 + $2,650 in meal entertainment each FBT year + other benefits if eligible.

• Please note that access to salaries beyond $109,964 is subject to qualifications and/or application to the personal upgrade scheme 

• Salary range is in accordance with Allied Health Professionals Public Sector Unions Wages Agreement 2022

What’s on Offer?

• Flexible working hours to enable work/life balance

• Relocation allowance may be negotiated for successful interstate applicants

• Support for ongoing professional development including post graduate qualification allowance where applicable

• Subsidised car parking facilities

• Diverse career pathways including opportunities for secondment into higher duties and access to higher duties allowance

• Other employment conditions and allowances available under the Allied Health Agreement

Eligibility:

Successful applicants will be required to meet the essential criteria:

1. Registered with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia

Applicants should note the following criteria are desirable:

1. Current Driver’s Licence

The Head of the State Service has determined that the person nominated for this job is to satisfy a pre‑employment check before taking up the appointment, on promotion or transfer. The following checks are to be conducted:

1. Conviction checks in the following areas:

• crimes of violence

• sex related offences

• serious drug offences

• crimes involving dishonesty

1. Identification check

2. Disciplinary action in previous employment check.

*As required by the Commonwealth Home Support Program and/or the Aged Care Act, occupants of this role are required to undertake a conviction check assessment every three years.