• Hours - 0.8FTE (32 hours a week)
• Shifts - Monday - Friday, with Thursday as RDO 0800- 1630
• Status - Permanent
• Location - Christchurch Hospital
• Salary - Starting from $72,074 to $86,719. Based on experience and the PSA Allied, Public Health and Technical collective agreement.
  Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

Allied Health are a diverse group of clinicians who provide a wide range of preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic treatments as well as rehabilitation and enablement care across a patient - s whole life course. - Some of the teams in this group are dietitians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, speech language therapists, and social workers.
Allied Health are working on ways to enhance tangata whaiora and whanau (person and family care) service delivery to help with the journey through our health system and are looking at growing their assistant/Kaiāwhina team working with them in their team.
We - re looking for an energetic and enthusiastic Allied Health Assistant with a - can-do - attitude to join our Physiotherapy team, working across the acute Christchurch Hospital site.
You will bring a strong desire to be part of a team and be dedicated to continued learning and striving for the best patient outcomes.
The role is to provide patient support at Christchurch Hospital working alongside Physiotherapists and other Allied Health Assistants who are based in the Physiotherapy Service. You will be part of the Medical Specialties and Neurosciences team where you will work in areas such as oncology, haematology, general medicine and nephrology. You will support the wider team within the Physiotherapy Service.

Tasks include:

• Carrying out treatment plans as delegated by a registered Physiotherapist
• Cleaning/maintaining equipment and clinical spaces
• Checking and maintaining consumables and stock
• Delivering and set up of equipment
• Supervision of exercise/activity programmes as delegated by the Physiotherapist

As working to achieve equity in healthcare is important for how we deliver our Allied Health services, you will be required to incorporate manaakitanga into your practice and use kaupapa Māori concepts when working with patients. - We will also provide further training and support around this for successful candidates. -