Private practice Physiotherapist

Pathways Physiotherapy is looking for a full-time physiotherapist to join our team in Ferntree Gully. We’re open to both new graduates beginning their private-practice career and experienced physiotherapists looking for a clinic where they can continue developing, pursue their clinical interests and make a meaningful contribution to the team. The role and support will be tailored to the successful applicant’s experience.

This role could be right for you if you:

• Want to work within a close, supportive team that genuinely helps one another
• Enjoy combining hands-on treatment with exercise-based rehabilitation
• Care about building strong relationships with your client to achieve meaningful outcomes
• Want regular clinical development without being micromanaged
• Are interested in Clinical Pilates, strength and conditioning, or developing your own clinical area of interest
• Value contributing to team learning, clinic culture and referral relationships
• Want a workplace where you can build a sustainable long-term career

You may be a new graduate looking for strong foundations and plenty of guidance. Alternatively, you may already have private-practice experience and want greater autonomy, opportunities to develop a niche, mentor others or progress towards leadership.

What you’ll receive:

• Clinical development tailored to you
• Regular one-on-one mentoring with an experienced physiotherapist
• Weekly team in-services and group case discussions
• Access to a broad team with experience across musculoskeletal physiotherapy, Clinical Pilates, Dance Physiotherapy & Women's Health, strength and conditioning, exercise physiology and rehabilitation
• Quarterly goal-setting and career-development conversations
• Support to develop your clinical interests, referral networks and longer-term career direction

New graduates will receive a structured onboarding and mentoring program to help them build their clinical reasoning, treatment skills, communication and private-practice confidence. Experienced physiotherapists will receive support appropriate to their goals - including opportunities to develop a clinical niche, contribute to team development, mentor less-experienced clinicians and potentially move into future leadership roles.

A workplace designed for great rehabilitation - and genuine team connection:

• Five private treatment rooms
• A large, bright and fully equipped Clinical Pilates and strength-and-conditioning studio
• A shared note-writing space that makes it easy to discuss cases, ask questions and learn from the clinicians around you
• Our basketball ring out the back provides space for a quick reset, friendly competition or those important between-client debriefs

Employment and lifestyle:

• An attractive base wage aligned with your experience, with commission paid on top
• Up to $1,500 per year in matched CPD support
• A full-time position with the roster developed collaboratively
• Some evening availability and participation in a shared Saturday rotation
• Team culture days 3 times a year and regular social activities
• Genuine longer-term flexibility and career opportunities as your circumstances and ambitions evolve

Your role will include:

• Assessing and treating a varied musculoskeletal caseload
• Combining manual therapy, education, home exercise and supervised clinical exercise
• Developing strong therapeutic relationships and delivering excellent client experiences
• Actively participating in mentoring, professional development and team learning
• Communicating with referrers and other health professionals
• Contributing to activities that build your caseload and strengthen Pathways’ local referral relationships
• Participating positively in the culture and shared responsibilities of the clinic

About Pathways:

At Pathways Physiotherapy, we help guide people along their pathway to better health. Our purpose is to inspire, coach and empower people experiencing pain or recovering from injury to become active, healthy and happy. Our multidisciplinary team includes physiotherapists, an exercise physiologist, Pilates instructors and massage therapists. We believe the best rehabilitation brings together excellent clinical reasoning, hands‑on treatment, education and exercise in a plan tailored to the individual. One of our core values is #we-are-lifelong-learners. We take clinical development seriously, but we also want to develop thoughtful, confident people who enjoy coming to work and contributing to the team around them.

Other values guiding how we work include:

• We create a lifelong impact
• We make it happen
• We have each other’s back
• We keep it light
• We are Lifelong learners

We care about sustainable caseloads and a commercially healthy clinic, but we don’t believe that should come at the expense of quality care, clinician wellbeing or doing what is right for the client.

Is this you?

To be successful, you’ll need:

• A recognised physiotherapy qualification
• Current or expected AHPRA registration by your commencement date
• Professional indemnity insurance and the required working checks
• Strong communication skills and a genuine interest in people
• A willingness to learn, contribute and take ownership of your development
• Availability to commence in early 2027