Grade 3 Educator Clinician
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- Grade 3 Physiotherapist Clinician in Education
- Fixed Term, Full-Time or Part-Time - Total of 1.2 EFT vacant (Parental Leave Backfill)
Austin Health is a major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the Northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.
About the Physiotherapy Department:
The Physiotherapy Department is committed to promoting the highest levels of care for our patients. In realising this goal, the department will lead and excel in research, teaching and the use of person-centred evidence-based practice. The department provides services on all three campuses of Austin Health, from the Emergency Department through to bed-based services and ongoing ambulatory care.
About the role:
Working in the Austin Health Physiotherapy department you will work collaboratively with the treating clinicians and wider physiotherapy department to provide safe, effective, patient centred care.
A day in the role will see you:
· Apply theory to education practice, consult on education issues, engage in educational scholarship
· Embed evidenced based education methods into teaching and learning activities including clinical supervision
· Engage with physiotherapy learners at all levels – undergraduate, new graduate, early career and advanced career stages
· Assist in implementation of the physiotherapy department education plan
· Contribute to planning and development of ongoing physiotherapy department education initiatives
· Provide wholistic patient-centred care and maintain clinical practice currency across a broad range of clinical areas
. You’ll join a friendly and supportive team who genuinely enjoys their work and the contribution they make.
About you:
We seek someone who provides excellent patient care and is committed to ongoing improvement in patient and staff experience. We value highly developed communication skills and an ability to interact with people from diverse backgrounds and learning stages.
This role requires you to have significant tertiary hospital clinical experience and significant exposure to pedagogical theory and principles of adult learning.
Our benefits
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:
- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging benefits, for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport, car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists
Work with us!
We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.
If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.
All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Mark Hindson, Physiotherapist Grade 4 at Mark.HINDSON@austin.org.au
Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.
Application closing date: 16 May 2025
