Senior Emergency Department Physiotherapist - Health Professional Level 3 | Full-Time Permanent

Classification:Health Professional Level 3
Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 (up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation
Position No: 602588 - 02G6V
Directorate: Canberra Health Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 12 February 2024
Contact Officer: Sandra Holdom on *************@act.gov.au

What can we offer you: 

• City living without the traffic – click her to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval)

About the role:

This position supports the delivery of services including primary contact physiotherapy within the Emergency Department. You will play a key role in delivering high quality patient centred care and associated functions to support service delivery in this clinical area. Primary contact physiotherapy positions will support the delivery of extended hours of service provision in the Emergency Department setting.

Clinical supervision, and professional development is provided through team structures, supervision support, competency-based assessments and professional development opportunities.

You will be required to participate in an overtime, restricted on-call and shift rosters.

A merit pool will be developed from this round and may be used to fill vacancies which occur over the next 12 months.

Under limited direction of the Director of Physiotherapy you will required to work across acute care settings and perform the following duties. You will:

• Provide high level of clinical expertise and practice across a range of clinical areas, but not limited to, the Emergency Department.
• Facilitate effective communication and work collaboratively with the patients, families, carers, healthcare and service providers to ensure continuum of care.
• Complete case, program and activity records to standards required while ensuring data retention policies are followed.
• Exercise independent professional judgement on moderately complex matters, generating innovative solutions to problems and producing a range of options.
• Provide supervision and education to Health Professional 1 & 2, students, allied health assistants and other non-professional staff, and participate in education programs for area of clinical service delivery.
• Participate in team and program related service activities as required.
• Participate in supervision, credentialing, continuing professional development and performance management.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to this level of classification which contribute to the operation of the organisation.

About you:

Requirements/Qualifications:
Mandatory

• Relevant Tertiary qualifications and a minimum of three years’ experience working professionally in Physiotherapy.
• Be registered or be eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).
• Commitment to complete relevant primary contact physiotherapy training and competencies.
• The successful applicant will need to be available for weekend and after-hours work.
• CHS is leading the drive to digitally transform health service delivery in Australia through the implementation of a territory wide Digital Health Record. Computer literacy skills are required which are relevant to this role as you will be responsible for completing required documentation and becoming a proficient user of the Digital Health Record and/or other Information Technology systems; once proficient, you will need to remain current with changes, updates and contingencies.

Desirable

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

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Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project – CHS is constructing a new critical services building called ‘Building 5’ which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory’s history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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