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Physiotherapist Grade 2 - Start Date: Feb 2027
Permanent Part-time (21 hours per week) -Thursday, Friday, Saturday
In this exciting opportunity you will join the St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne (SVPHM) team as a Grade 2 Physiotherapist at our campus in Fitzroy. In this role you will bring your passion & expertise where you will work with a dedicated team of experienced Physiotherapist's to support the service provision of excellent patient-centred care. The caseload is acute orthopaedic, vascular and sarcoma surgery. There will be opportunity to assist in other areas including spinal surgery and general medical.
You will join a high performing team and a workplace with relationships built on mutual trust and respect. We value our staff and offer professional advancement in a respectful, collaborative and learning environment.
As an outstanding Grade 2 Physiotherapist, you are a competent team member in orthopaedic clinical practice & able to deliver safe, high-quality patient-centred care. You have highly developed interpersonal skills, are a capable problem solver with ability to work flexibly within a team & prioritise competing tasks in a timely manner. You are enthusiastic, dedicated, adaptable and friendly with a philosophy of continual improvement and evidence-based practice.
Your skills will include:
· Minimum of 4 years post graduate physiotherapy experience
· Effective management of an orthopaedic clinical caseload and neurology (spinal surgery) experience is an advantage
· Prioritisation and workload allocation
· Safe and effective discharge planning
· Demonstrated commitment to development and continuing education
· Ability to communicate and work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment
· Participation in quality improvement activities as required
Our experienced team of clinical professionals, care givers and support staff are equipped to provide the highest level of therapeutic, medical and surgical services. We work together to ensure patient safety, well-being and recovery. We are a not-for-profit Catholic private hospital which operates across four sites at Fitzroy, East Melbourne, Kew and Werribee.
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We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.
St Vincent's Health Australia is committed to reconciliation and encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for all advertised positions. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au.
Criminal record and/or child protection checks will be conducted and will form part of the selection criteria for this role.
SVPHM has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity, please contact:
Lena Fiddelaers, Allied Health Manager
M:0421419766
Email: lena.fiddelaers@svha.org.au
29 November 2026 11:59pm
At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. 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.
For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au
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The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
