Physiotherapist - Rotational (Grade 1)

Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH); Melbourne; On-site; AUD 71,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Fitness Passport

Discounted Private Health insurance

Leadership mentoring

Job summary

The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne is hiring two full-time physiotherapists to join the Paediatric Rotation Program. You will rotate across specialties, providing evidence-based physiotherapy to children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The role offers a competitive salary within the VA scale, salary packaging, Fitness Passport, and career development opportunities, with a commitment to staff safety and a family-centred approach.

Qualifications

• Must hold a Physiotherapy degree and registration with AHPRA.
• Experience in large hospitals with high acuity caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Provide evidence-based physiotherapy services to paediatric patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Collaborate with doctors, nurses and allied health staff to deliver holistic care.
• Rotate across specialties during the Paediatric Rotation Program to develop broad clinical skills.
• Maintain competency in clinical skills in line with department requirements.

Skills

Physiotherapy degree

Experience in large hospitals

Education

Physiotherapy degree

Job description

The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatrics and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

About the Role:

There are currently two full-time, ongoing positions available at 80 hours/1.0 FTE per fortnight within the Physiotherapy Department.

You will be working as part of our Paediatric Rotation Program (PRP), which offers you the opportunity to rotate on a four-monthly basis between various specialty areas, developing your skills and experience across a wide range of clinical specialties and working towards a career in paediatric physiotherapy. As part of the PRP you will provide physiotherapy services to children and adolescents as part of a multidisciplinary team. You will ensure that physiotherapy services are innovative, evidence-based and provided in a child and family centred context, by working in close collaboration with medical, nursing and allied health staff.

Classification for these positions will range from VA3 (Grade 1, Year 1) to VA7 (Grade 1, Year 5), base salary from $70,590 to $85,872.80 FTE per annum, plus superannuation.

What You'll Achieve:

• Provide evidence-based physiotherapy services to patients referred by designated units in collaboration with supervising clinicians
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure delivery of a holistic, streamlined approach to care that best meets the needs of the patient and their family
• Work in a flexible manner and participate in other duties as allocated consistent with skill level to ensure adequate cover and clinical care across the whole Physiotherapy Department service
• Achieving and maintaining competency in relevant skills in line with departmental requirements relevant to the role

Your Skills and Experience

• Hold a Physiotherapy degree qualification from an accredited course/university and registration to practice as a Physiotherapist with AHPRA
• Have experience working in large hospitals with high acuity caseloads

About the Department

The Physiotherapy Department is a vibrant community of individuals who share a commitment to ongoing learning and partnering with families in the provision of evidence-based care. The Department also embodies the RCH Compact pledge that 'we do better work caring for children and families when we also care for each other'. The PRP is currently made up of rotations in the following areas:

• Critical Care
• Respiratory Medicine
• Critical Care and Respiratory Medicine
• Neurosciences and Rehabilitation
• Oncology and Neurodevelopment
• Orthopaedics
• Haematology, Rheumatology and Burns
• Reliever

What We Offer

• Salary Packaging - increase your take home pay!
• Ability to join Fitness Passport - your pass to an extensive choice of fitness facilities
• Discounted Private Health insurance
• Leadership that mentors team members to achieve their career goals

Other Requirements:

• Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
• Valid Working with Children Check, or willing to obtain
• Current NDIS Worker Screening Check, or willing to obtain
• Compliance with RCHs "Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases" procedure

For more information about this position please contact Fiona Fenton, Manager of Physiotherapy, Ph: 9345 9300, Email: [e-mail]

Why work at the RCH?

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offerthe opportunity towork in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer staff benefits such as discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

The RCH is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally and/or linguistically diverse background, all members of the LGBTQI community and people with disability.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be vaccinated against Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption,andoffers of employment are conditional on successful completion of background checks including reference checks.