Senior Physiotherapist | Leadership, Impact & Regional Living!
Join North West Hospital and Health Service as a Senior Physiotherapist – Continence & Women’s Health, where you’ll combine advanced clinical practice with professional leadership. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead service development, supervise and mentor clinicians, and deliver high‑quality inpatient, outpatient and outreach physiotherapy across a diverse regional setting.
About The Role
You will provide advanced clinical services while leading professional practice and service development within the Allied Health Department. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver comprehensive continence, women's health and generalist physiotherapy services across inpatient, outpatient and outreach settings at Mount Isa Hospital and across the North West region. This role plays a key part in driving quality improvement, patient safety and evidence‑based practice aligned with NWHHS strategic priorities.
Delivering advanced clinical care in continence and women's health, alongside complex generalist physiotherapy services across medical, surgical, maternity, paediatric, ICU, ED and outpatient settings. Leading service development and quality improvement, including establishing and maintaining evidence‑based clinical guidelines, policies and protocols for continence and women's health physiotherapy. Providing professional leadership, supervision and education to physiotherapists, rural generalist trainees, students and Allied Health Assistants, supporting capability building across the service.
Working with us
Eligible health practitioners entitled to accrue an additional three days professional development leave per annum, resulting in a total of six days professional development leave per annum.Eligible health practitioners working in designated remote areas will be entitled to a professional development allowance of $3,512.00 per annum.Rural and Remote incentive: Category D allowance of $431.22 p.f.Tax savings through salary sacrificing options are also available.
Professionally, our HHS values professionalism, leadership capability, excellence and resilience in our staff. We are committed to providing extraordinary opportunities for career development including in-house training, development and mentoring programs.
Requirements
Potential applicants are advised that the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian Act 2000 requires Queensland Health to seek a ‘working with children' check; from the Commission for Children and Young People and Child Guardian prior to appointment to this position.Mandatory requirements are a relevant tertiary degree qualification and appropriate registration/licences.C Class Motor Vehicle Licence.Pre-employment screening will be conducted for the successful applicant, including Criminal History checks.This is a VPD risk role and may require evidence of vaccination or immunity to: Hepatitis A/B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Varicella, Pertussis, and Tuberculosis.A period of probation may apply.
About
About North West Hospital and Health Service
Unique locations Friendly communities Regional, rural and remote $$$ incentives
Mount Isa is a great place to live and work!
Interested?
Download the Role Description for further information and application / interview preparation.
Contact: Sidony Miller-Waugh on (07) 4744 4447.
Applications close: Monday, 20 April 2026.
Occupational group Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support