Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan
Job type: Full time
Organisation: Monash Health
**Salary**: Salary not specified
Occupation: Health and Allied Health
Reference: 59198
An exciting fixed term opportunity has arisen for a Exercise Physiologist to join the Monash Health Community Rehabilitation Team
**About Monash Health**
**About Monash Health in the Community: Helping people live their best lives**
As Monash Health in the Community, we actively engage with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community. Our aim is to help clients live their best lives by enabling them to access the support they need, when they need it.
Working with clients across the age spectrum, Monash Health in the Community provides a continuum of care, supporting clients through all stages of non-acute care from prevention through to rehabilitation.
- We provide services to support clients in their homes, community based facilities and dedicated Monash Health Community hubs
- We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life
- We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude
- We view change and challenge as great opportunities
**About Community Rehabilitation**
Community Rehabilitation offers client-centred, goal driven rehabilitation services to maximise a client's independence, health and well-being following acute illness or injury. Community Rehabilitation consists of large interdisciplinary teams that work with the client to achieve their rehabilitation goals and provide home and centre based therapy.
**About the Role and You**
We are looking for a passionate, dynamic and skilled Exercise physiologist for our Community Rehabilitation team.
The Grade 2 **Community Rehabilitation **Exercise Physiologist is responsible for working within the multidisciplinary team to provide best practice patient care, achieve maximal operational effectiveness, develop organisational competencies, and create strong partnerships within and outside Monash Health in collaboration with Senior Clinician Exercise Physiologist and Stream/Team Leaders. You will provide a high standard of client assessment, treatment and coordination of services to patients, to facilitate safe, effective, and person centred care. You will be able to work autonomously and as part of the team providing both home and centre based services via a variety of modalities including face to face and telehealth, with both individuals and groups.
This position is based within the Dandenong and Springvale Community Rehabilitation centres; however travel to and work at any of the Monash Health sites will be required. The incumbent will be required to work in any clinical area at any or all campuses of Monash Health as and when required. Such a requirement may be a temporary arrangement, on ad hoc basis, or a permanent change.
**What You Need**:
- Masters of Clinical Exercise Physiology and eligible for accreditation with ESSA
- Current drivers licence
- Working with children check
**What You Need to Know**:
Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.
Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:
- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children's Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.
A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.
Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses for COVID-19.