Job Description

Grade 2 Orthopaedic Physiotherapist

Permanent, Full-Time

Cabrini Malvern & Brighton

We’re building for the better!

By 2036, more than 150,000 patients will look to us for healthcare every year.

At Cabrini Health we champion community, compassion and career fulfilment. Our teams are united by the shared purpose of making a meaningful contribution to exceptional, patient-centred care in well- resourced, world class facilities that inspire you to perform at your best and continuously grow professionally.

About Allied Health services

Allied Health at Cabrini is a rapidly expanding and highly integrated service comprising twelve professional disciplines. The department plays a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across the organisation.

Cabrini Allied Health offers a wide range of opportunities, including senior consultant and leadership roles, clinical stream positions, junior staff rotation and support programs, professional development and teaching opportunities, and the cultivation of strong external and university partnerships.

What the role involves

The Grade 2 physiotherapist will work as a senior physiotherapist across Cabrini Malvern and Brighton. This position includes working with elective and traumatic orthopaedic conditions, spinal neurosurgery, paediatrics, our orthopaedic preadmission clinic, day of surgery service, and within the Emergency Department as a secondary contact clinician. You will provide support and clinical oversight to the Grade 1 physiotherapists, AHAs and physiotherapy students.

We will provide access to professional development and supervision from grade 3 staff, allowing you to further extend your own clinical, education and leadership skills.

The role involves working 76 hours per fortnight, primarily based at Malvern, but may involve work within orthopaedics at Cabrini Brighton.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting evidence-based clinical care of acute orthopaedic, neurosurgical and ED patients

• Promoting new service initiatives to improve rapid discharge and enhance bed flow

• Surgeon stakeholder engagement

• Developing and updating clinical protocols

• Supporting junior Physiotherapists, AHAs and students on-site at Cabrini Malvern or Brighton.

What we're looking for:

We are looking for a motivated senior physiotherapist in acute orthopaedics, and who is passionate about providing high-quality patient-centred care.

You will have

• A Physiotherapy degree

• Current registration with AHPRA as a physiotherapist

• Current Working with Children’s Check

• Professional development and clinical experience in orthopaedics, neurosurgery and ED

• Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends in collaboration with the senior orthopaedic physiotherapy team, as service needs require

• Strong team approach and communication skills within a multi-disciplinary team

What we offer:

• Salary packaging up to $15,900 tax-free each year, plus $2650 meal & entertainment card benefits

• Convenience Vibrant Malvern and Brighton locations, close to local shops, cafes and public transport

• Travel Perks Myki Commuter discounted fares

• A commitment to health and well-being initiatives including discounted access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness facilities through Fitness Passport

• Access to a range of retail offers, discounted hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services

Interested? For further information, view the full position description here or contact Prinisha Shyam - Acting Head of Physiotherapy on 9508 8767.

Apply early! This role may close sooner than the listed closing date if we find the right candidate – so don’t wait to get your application in.

Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested. Vaccination for COVID-19 is highly recommended.