At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide holistic physiotherapy to enhance mobility and support independence in the community.
- Company: Join Blue Care, a trusted community care provider with a compassionate team.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, salary packaging, employee discounts, and generous leave options.
- Other info: Diversity and inclusion are at our core; we welcome all applicants.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in clients' lives while growing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications, AHPRA registration, and experience in aged care or community settings.
The predicted salary is between 42 - 59 $ per hour.
Make a meaningful impact providing holistic, community‐based physiotherapy that enhances mobility, restores movement, and supports independence across Cooroy and Gympie.
Your part in our Blue Care team:
- Provide holistic, integrated care to our clients enhancing their mobility and movement to promote their independence and wellbeing.
- Work with a number of movement conditions associated with musculoskeletal impairments, medical conditions and chronic disease.
- Tailor your care to make a real difference in your client's quality of life.
- Develop new treatment programs, helping clients to manage their movement, pain, balance and manual handling.
This will include:
- Diagnosing, assessing and developing care plans for individuals and groups.
- Prescription and selection of appropriate adaptive equipment and modification.
- Education and training on aspects of therapy for the clients and carers.
- Goal setting activities, as well as discharge and resolution planning.
- Liaising with healthcare professionals, such as GPs, nurses and occupational therapists to ensure care plans are formulated and monitored.
What makes a difference for us?
- Passionate about providing exceptional clinical treatment and therapies designed to enable your clients to maintain and improve their independence.
- Self-motivated and driven to incorporate contemporary theory in your day-to-day activities.
- Tertiary Qualifications and current AHPRA registration.
- Previous experience within an Aged Care or Community setting.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to build great relationships.
- Effective time-management and proven clinical problem-solving skills.
- Current Australian Drivers Licence and a road worthy vehicle with comprehensive insurance as required - Essential.
- Confidence to satisfy the relevant probity checks required by legislation or policies.
- Current CPR and First Aid.
- Own reliable vehicle with kilometre reimbursement where a fleet car is not available.
Employee Benefits:
- Save tax and increase your take home pay by salary packaging your everyday living expenses and bills (up to $15,900) and meal entertainment (up to $2,650) per annum.
- A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers.
- 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months service.
- Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options.
- Career development opportunities with one of the most trusted community and residential care providers in Australia.
UnitingCare is committed to being a Child Safe, Child Friendly organisation and will:
- Provide welcoming, safe & nurturing services for children.
- Implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services.
- Appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur.
- Abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme.
Our approach is simple – everybody is welcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.
We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support.
Physiotherapist in Cooroy employer: UnitingCare Queensland
UnitingCare is an exceptional employer that offers a meaningful and rewarding work environment, particularly for those in the Senior Workplace Relations Counsel role. With a commitment to flexible work arrangements, generous salary packaging, and a strong focus on employee development, you will thrive in a culture that values respect, diversity, and inclusivity. Join a dedicated team that has been making a difference for over 100 years, supporting more than 400,000 people across Queensland and the Northern Territory.
