TITLE: SENIOR CLINICIAN PHYSIOTHERAPIST

Requisition ID: 3249
Location:Eastern Health, VIC, AU, 3128
Job Posting Date: 22 Apr 2025
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GOOD TO KNOW:

• We are an equal opportunity employer and actively promote equality for people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and for people living with disability – within the communities we serve and our Eastern Health team.
• We provide a culturally safe and welcoming environment for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees.
• As a child-safe organisation, we ensure child safety and wellbeing is embedded in our everyday culture.
• Vaccination and screening for immunity to vaccine-preventable disease is a mandatory requirement of this role.
• Advertising may end before the closing date.
• We do not accept recruitment agency application

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Clinician within the Community Rapid Triage Team you will work autonomously, but be well supported by your colleagues, assessing clients following their discharge from an Eastern Health hospital who have been referred to the Community Rehabilitation Program. You will assist with rapid triage, assessment, goal setting and discharge planning for clients. You will recognise the deteriorating patient and escalate to medical staff for management to prevent avoidable readmissions to hospital. Partake in holistic discharge planning following inpatient stay, including liaising with community nursing, Post-Acute Care, HARP co-ordinators and allied health.
Liaise with CRP allied health staff, medical staff and other stakeholders to develop a plan of care tailored to meet the need of individual patients which addresses relevant clinical needs
Subsequent follow-up will be delivered via a mix of face-to-face and home visits, as clinically indicated.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills will enable you to thrive in this role. The team will work closely together and be strong advocates for this vulnerable and frail client group. The team will use a mix of modes such as face to face interventions and telehealth.

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Contact Person: Stephanie Corin
Contact Number: 0434329045
Contact Email: stephanie.corin@easternhealth.org.au
Job Posting End Date: 20/05/2025
Applications will be screened as recieved

To be successful in this role you will possess:

• Demonstrated expertise in managing complex and vulnerable, frail populations, initiating appropriate therapies and supportive treatments.
• Demonstrate a high level of clinical reasoning and advanced casework skills, using a patient-centred approach within multi-dimensional assessments, formulating appropriately targeted treatment plans with realistic achievable goals.
• Develop and implement treatment plans in collaboration with patients and significant carers.
• Collaboration with other stakeholders and especially referrers, CRP and Post-Acute Care teams.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in innovative practice and quality improvement.
• Deliver a high quality, accessible and coordinated service to our clients both in the client’s home and in the centre.
• Be an active member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate high-level organisational skills through efficient time management and professional responsibility including modelling the ability to appropriately prioritise workload and manage multiple competing demands