Paediatric Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist

Down South Therapy offers more

Our employees enjoy

• Access to a wealth of best practice resources, equipment, and assessments including being supplied with your own resource bundle worth $250
• Specialist support across all disciplines as well as support in and out of work hours from the DST leadership team
• A wide range of ongoing support to maintain and increase your knowledge and skills in the best practice provision including 
  • Weekly supervision and mentoring based on your goals
  • Paid internal professional development worth $2000 per year
  • Paid external professional development and training package worth $2500 per year
• Highly competitive salary packages
  • Vehicle allowance of $13 000 per year with options of salary sacrificing your vehicle  
  • 11% Superannuation
  • Access to Salary Packaging providing tax benefits
  • iPhone or Android Phone package
  • Company Laptop package
  • Commission bonuses on a fortnightly basis worth up to $5700 per year
  • Paid professional indemnity and public liability insurance
• Flexible working arrangements to create your ideal work-life balance with options including
  • Location-based timetables to limit the travel from your home and throughout the day
  • 5 weeks of paid annual leave with options for purchasing additional annual leave
  • Additional 3 days of training/ professional development leave
  • Employee Assistance Program with free counseling sessions each year as well as wellness days leave each year
• Continued recognition
  • Monthly social events organised by our Social Committee
  • Monthly ‘Spirited Award’ recognition and awards. In 2021, three members of our team won an all-expenses-paid trip to the Northern Territory; this year we have our team members going to Tasmania. Each month a team member wins a $50 voucher for demonstrating our values.
  • Anniversary awards
  • Weekly team-building events

As Perth’s largest mobile Allied Health Service provider, Down South Therapy makes our families the focus of what we do, by going to them. We step into their world to deliver a service that will make a difference to them and that will help them to develop their own skills and knowledge so they can achieve their valued and meaningful goals.

 For over 11 years we have been providing high quality best practice Physiotherapy, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy, and Psychology services to our expanding clientele across the metro area and into rural and remote areas.

We work with people of all ages, through private and government funding, with or without a diagnosis. 

Our continued commitment to providing individualised services to all our families means we need committed and flexible therapists to join our team so we can reach more families across Western Australia.

As our Paediatric Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, you will

• Lead a team of Physiotherapists with a range of supports available to the whole team
• Provide supervision to junior therapists and / or lead one of DST’s specialist teams depending on your area of interest and passion
• Work with individuals, families and their key stakeholders in your area of expertise to create individualised, family-centred plans
• Provide 1:1 and group support with children and teenagers in your area of expertise
• Be part of a transdisciplinary team to develop holistic therapy plans for school-based and home-based intervention and support programs
• Enjoy working in a flexible environment alongside other experienced therapists
• Be provided with a timetable based on clinical caseload to match your area of expertise
• Have the enthusiasm to work in a team and contribute to everyone’s success
• Take part in weekly clinical supervision to ensure you feel supported and to promote your growth and development
• Contribute to fortnightly discipline-specific meetings, transdisciplinary meetings and seniors meetings across disciplines to learn from and share your knowledge and skill

Skills and Experience

• The passion for helping clients to reach their fullest potential and to address goals through fun, yet functional therapy 
• 10+ years experience as a Senior Physiotherapist and developing positive relationships in supervising junior therapists (to support their development)
• Clinical paediatric expertise in a community or hospital setting and expert knowledge in complex paediatric conditions (such as Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Chromosomal Deletion Disorders, Epilepsy, Autism and other genetic conditions)
• Willingness to travel in the South Metro, Mandurah and Peel regions to deliver specialist clinical knowledge to junior therapists and to provide 1:1 assessment and intervention sessions to children and teenagers.
• Ability to work in and contribute to a transdisciplinary team and with key participant stakeholders
• Skills in client-centred and family-centred practice 
• Effective organisational and time-management skills
• Experience with problem solving and conflict resolution
• Strong communication skills to support advocacy, mediation, negotiation and requirements
• Awareness of multi-disciplinary team dynamics
• Ability to advocate for DST services within the local community

You will need to have

• Relevant Physiotherapy Degree/Masters qualification
• AHPRA Registration - Physiotherapy
• Working With Children Check
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• National Police Check
• Driver’s Licence

So, are you ready for more?

We want you on our team, so apply here today or contact our Clinical Services Manager Kellie Briggs on 0404 698 *** or email *************@downsouththerapy.com.au and start the conversation.

If you want more details, check out our website for more information and see what we are all about.