Role details
The Sarina Hospital is seeking applications for a Physiotherapist to join their team on a permanent basis.
For information on how to apply and the mandatory requirements for this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Your opportunity
* To deliver generalist physiotherapy clinical services to inpatient and outpatient clients presenting to Sarina Hospital with various conditions in the areas of respiratory, surgical, orthopaedic, neurological, musculoskeletal, rehabilitation, paediatrics and women's health across the age span.
* To actively participate in an Allied Health team that contributes to patient safety and positive outcomes by adhering to professional standards and working towards achievement of health service strategic priorities.
* To support continued health service improvement by undertaking quality improvement activities and evidence-based practice as a member of a multidisciplinary team, to optimise functional outcomes, and to achieve maximum benefits from health care services for patients/consumers, their families, carers and other key stakeholders or customers of Queensland Health.
About the Team
Sarina Hospital is located within the township of Sarina, approximately 30 minutes-drive south of Mackay, making it the closest located rural facility to Mackay Base Hospital. The Sarina Hospital services the wider community that extends east to coastal hamlets, south to St Lawrence and west into the hinterland.
Sarina Hospital provides admitted and non-admitted services, with inpatients, 24-hour Emergency Department, Outpatients Clinics and Community Services. The facility is newly built and fully utilises electronic medical records. Inpatient care is a mixture of acute patients and non-acute patients, and the emergency department has varied presentations totalling approximately 9000 presentations in the last year.
Physiotherapy Services are located at Sarina Hospital with other Allied Health Services including Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, Social Work and Pharmacy provided as an outreach model from Mackay Base Hospital.
About our Hospital and Health Service
Mackay Hospital and Health Service has 6 hospitals, 2 multi-purpose health services and 4 community health centres that employ more than 3,700 staff. The district covers an area of approximately 90,000km2 and provides services to patients and their families in Bowen, Cannonvale, Clermont, Collinsville, Dysart, Glenden, Mackay, Middlemount, Moranbah, Proserpine and Sarina.
Some of our great benefits on offer
* Competitive wages, salary packaging and leave entitlements
* Flexible working arrangements
* A diverse work culture
* Career development
* Professional development opportunities
* Education opportunities, Study and Research
* Paid parental leave
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
* Discounted Private Health Insurance
* Fitness Passport