• Full Time Fixed Term for 11 months (Feb 2024 – Jan 2025)
• Grade 2 Classification commensurate with skills and experience as per Victorian Stand-Alone Community Health Centres Allied Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement 2021-2022
• Enjoy working flexibly and long weekends with Accrued Days Off + Hoppers Crossing and Wyndham Vale locations
• Build your clinical skills differently through our Innovation Framework and creative thinking principles!

We are One Team IPC Health, we are passionate, creative and we make a difference.

We deliver innovative high-quality services that are client centred, collaborative, coordinated and demonstrate value through measured impact. We are a not-for-profit community health service committed to working with the rapidly growing areas of Melbourne’s middle and outer West, where population will grow by 400,000 in the coming 15 years. By year 2035, we anticipate that the total population served will be approximately 1.2 million.

The Opportunity

Broaden your clinical experience as a Podiatrist within the community health sector where you will be well supported by a dynamic team, as well as a Senior Clinician. You will apply your learnings and clinical knowledge in this excellent growth opportunity to provide high quality podiatry care. In addition to embedding a continuous improvement and wholistic care approach, you will provide services focusing on care management and intervention at both the individual and community level.

This is a diverse clinical role where you will gain exposure to providing health education, therapeutic management and health promotion within a direct service model. This opportunity will enable you to further build your clinical and professional capacity through -

• Regular supervision including our newly developed supervision framework for Grade 1 clinicians, in-house continuing education and opportunities to attend seminars, workshops, and conferences.
• Becoming part of a strong and connected team. We are a group that supports and looks out for one another because we are committed to our people and vision.
• Sharing your valuable insights as a key advisor in how we can deliver better client care experiences.

This Full Time Fixed Term opportunity (Leave cover until 31st January, 2025) is based at Hoppers Crossing and Wyndham Vale campuses offering Grade 2 classification + 11% superannuation under the Victorian Stand Alone Community Health Centres Allied Health Professionals Enterprise Agreement 2021–2022. You will also have access to Accrued Days Off to enjoy a long weekend !

You will make a difference by

• Improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of the local community through quality and best practice podiatry care, management and intervention.
• Proactively identifying opportunities to grow and improve the clinical service aligned to strategic and operational objectives.
• Promoting collaboration across internal and external partners to improve service enhancement and learnings.

To succeed, you will need

• Bachelor of Applied Science (Podiatry) or equivalent and current AHPRA registration.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a Podiatrist with demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills in high risk foot conditions and wound management.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) with effective engagement skills.
• High level communication (verbal and written), negotiation, organisational and time management skills.
• Well-developed technical skills with the ability to adapt to client management systems.
• Current and valid Victorian driver’s licence and Working with Children’s Check.

Why work with us

• Access to options to flex your work and life commitments through our Flexing with IPC Health program.
• Generous salary packaging and paid parental leave benefits
• Award winning supportive organisation that values growth through our professional development and innovation framework.
• Access to Accrued Days Off to enjoy long weekends and greater work life balance.
• Free onsite car parking.

What next?

If you are passionate, creative and want to make a difference, we want to hear from you. All you need to do is visit our careers page, read the role’s Success Profile and submit your resume and answer a few short questions.

To find out more about the role, please contact Melita Harding – Senior Manager Allied Health Services on 0409 818 097.

The Success Profile is attached.

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health.We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other.We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements.We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email [email protected], using the subject line: Podiatrist enquiry via EthicalJobs, with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.