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An exciting opportunity to join Hospital in the Home Services as a Senior Physiotherapist. Independently delivers high-level physiotherapy services, provides clinical leadership and supervision to staff and students, and acts as a key reference for physiotherapy and multidisciplinary stakeholders across CHHHS. Reports operationally to the Allied Health Team Leader HITH and professionally to the Director of Physiotherapy CHHHS.
About us:
Hospital in the Home (HITH) provides care in a patient's permanent or temporary residence for conditions that require ongoing clinical governance, monitoring and/or treatment, as a substitution for in-hospital admitted care.
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service provide an extensive range of health services at more than 30 regional, rural and remote facilities across a geographical area of 142,900 square kilometres. The Health Service is 95 percent self-sufficient with only a small number of high-level acute services being provided in Townsville and Brisbane.
We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.
About your role:
* Deliver high level physiotherapy clinical and consultancy services as part of a multi-professional team, in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards.
* Contribute to the daily operational management of the HITH team and organisation of the workload with allocated resources using planning, time management skills and prioritisation.
* Work cooperatively and effectively by maintaining timely, open and respectful communication (including accurate documentation and reporting) within multi-professional teams, with consumers, their families/carers and other health professionals, supervisors, students and researchers as required.
For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.
Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.
What we offer:
Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.
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