Senior Clinician Physiotherapist (CTEPH)

• Fixed-term position available: January 2025 - mid December 2025 (parental leave cover)
• Part time – 0.53EFT (40 hours / fn)
• Monday and Tuesday afternoons, and Wednesday all day preferred
• Grade 3 Physiotherapist
• Located at The Alfred Hospital

The Department

The Alfred Health Physiotherapy team includes staff working in acute services at The Alfred and Sandringham Hospitals, and subacute services at Caulfield Hospital. The Physiotherapy team has over 100EFT across these 3 locations, working in a variety of clinical streams, providing high quality clinical service to the hospital network including a variety of statewide services.

The Alfred Health Physiotherapy team has a proud history of clinical and academic excellence.  It remains strongly committed to further pursuing excellence in physiotherapy and as such provides support to staff for professional development and research activities. The Alfred Health Physiotherapy clinical school supports the provision of undergraduate Physiotherapy clinical placements and high quality teaching and education.

The Role

An exciting opportunity exists to join our Physiotherapy department as the Senior Clinician Physiotherapist – Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH). In this role you will support the development of a national multi-disciplinary program for the assessment and support of patients with CTEPH who are undergoing pulmonary endarterectomy. The position will provide leadership and specialist physiotherapy service to inpatients and outpatients under the CTEPH service, including optimising pre and post-operative rehabiliation. 
The position works closely with the service leads (medical and surgical) of the CTEPH service to provide a responsive service with excellent outcomes by international benchmarking standards. 

As a senior member of the Respiratory Physiotherapy stream at Alfred Health, you will also contribute to the overall respiratory service, and support supervision, education, and professional development of other staff and undergraduate students. It is an expectation that this position plays a key role in related research and quality improvement activities, as well as providing leadership support to the Respiratory stream leader.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate specialist Physiotherapy knowledge and skills related to the management of respiratory patient cohorts. They will demonstrate leadership capabilities including excellent time management, high level communication skills and an ability to foster teamwork and resilience.  You will receive support from the Respiratory Physiotherapy stream leader and Physiotherapy management team. There is support from the department for ongoing professional development and research activities.

Staff Benefits

• Salary Packaging
• Discount Health Insurance
• Car Parking (subject to availability)

If you have any questions about the position please contact: Dr Brenda Button, Respiratory Physiotherapy Stream Leader on 9076 3450.

Applications close: 28th November 2024