Senior Physiotherapist

Soaring Health Sport, Wellness & Community Centre; Thomastown; On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Paid travel for community work

Access to gym and swim facilities

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Akron, Ohio is seeking a physiotherapist to assess patient needs, develop treatment plans, and provide mentorship to new graduates. The role emphasizes patient care, community outreach, and professional development. Flexible work hours, administrative support, and ongoing education opportunities are provided.

Qualifications

• Must be equipped for complex client assessments and treatments.
• Experience in physiotherapy or related field is essential.
• Strong interpersonal skills to support and mentor new graduates.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate medical history and functional abilities of new patients.
• Develop treatment plans based on medical diagnoses.
• Provide massage therapy and rehabilitation treatments.
• Keep updated patient records with detailed therapy information.
• Provide mentoring and supervision for new graduate physiotherapists.

Job description

Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 6 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Heath care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Complete autonomy with calendar and bookings
• Working within a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated front-end team
• Work-life balance

What You Will Do

• Evaluating the medical history and the movement and functional abilities of new patients
• Developing treatment plans based on medical diagnoses
• Providing patients with massage therapy to relieve soft tissue pain
• Mobilizing and manipulating muscles and joints
• Providing treatment using physiotherapy and rehabilitation equipment
• Giving patients exercises designed to strengthen and increase their motor abilities
• Showing patients exercises that they can perform on their own at home (and correcting any incorrect posture / movements)
• Keeping updated patient records detailing all therapy provided (i.e. treatment and results)
• Adjusting plans and prescribing new treatment, where necessary
• Community based work with travel and seeing various client types across all ages

You Will Also Be Responsible For

• Taking on more COMPLEX clients
• Seeing a greater variety of clients of all types
• Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently for specialized AT
• Be able to effectively supervise PT and AHA students in clinic
• Give opportunity to new grads to observe
• Be a buddy for new grad Physiotherapists
• Participate in MDT training and workshops
• Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas
• Provide mentoring and supervision for physio and new grad physios

How We Will Support You

• Dedicated admin team
• Dedicated HR and finance team to look after all admin affairs
• Dedicated team leaders and team manager in each department
• Fully stocked clinics with resources
• Ability to have resource packs made up to travel within the community
• Back-end processes in place to make daily work easier
• Resource budget per discipline per month
• Dedicated internal/external supervision and mentoring as well as PD
• Opportunities for observation of more experienced/ specialized staff across disciplines

What's In It For You

• Advancement of clinical knowledge
• Working with preferred caseload and client types
• Ongoing clinical development
• Regular mentoring and supervision
• Team specific meetings and support
• In-house PD at no cost (Over 40 PD hours per year)

More Benefits

• Access to a work car for community and remote work
• Paid travel for community work
• Paid PD leave
• PD budget per calendar year
• Paid staff meetings and professional development in-house
• Access for work vehicle and work-related travel coverage
• Access to gym and swim facilities at our sites located inside leisure centres