• Full time until Feb 2023 - 3 days ongoing and 2 days until Feb 2023

About Monash Health

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We are proud to provide healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire life-span from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers.

More than 18,000 employees work at over 40 care locations across south eastern Melbourne, including Monash Medical Centre, Monash Children’s Hospital, Moorabbin Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Casey Hospital, Kingston Centre, Cranbourne Centre, and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.

About Monash Health in the Community: Helping people live their best lives

As Monash Health in the Community, we actively engage with people to improve and maintain health, independence and well-being. We do this by coordinating and/or providing integrated, multidisciplinary care across multiple settings within the local community.

Working with clients across the age spectrum, Monash Health in the Community provides a continuum of care, supporting clients through all stages of non-acute care from prevention through to rehabilitation.

We provide services to support clients in their homes, community based facilities and dedicated Monash Health Community hubs.

• We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life;
• We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude;
• We view change and challenge as great opportunities.

Community Rehabilitation

Community Rehabilitation offers both home and centre based therapy. The home and centre based program offers rehabilitation services to clients within the context of the rehabilitation gym and community.

The EP works closely with the interdisciplinary community rehabilitation team to provide a therapy program that is both holistic and client centred. This position provides the opportunity to work with autonomy, be creative and deliver high quality therapy services. You will have the opportunity to provide both group work and work with individuals.

Job Summary

The Grade 2 Community Rehabilitation Exercise Physiologist is responsible for working within Cranbourne/Pakenham Community Rehabilitation to provide best practice patient care, achieve maximal operational effectiveness, develop organisational competencies, and create strong partnerships within and outside Monash Health in collaboration with Senior Clinician Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, and Stream/Team Leaders.

This position is based at Cranbourne and Pakenham but may be required to work at any of the Monash Health sites.

What you need:

• Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science or equivalent as per Exercise & Sports Science Australia (ESSA) approved courses
• Victorian Drivers Licence
• Working with Children's Check
• Working towards, or completion, of relevant post graduate study
• Accreditation with ESSA

What you need to know

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Applications will only be accepted via clicking Apply Now to be redirected to the Monash Health online Mercury System only. Email applications will not be considered.

Existing Monash Health Employees should apply using your Monash Health employee account.

For any queries regarding employee accounts contact Recruitment Services by email – [email protected] using the subject line: Exercise Physiologist - Grade 2 enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

• reference checks;
• a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
• a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same); and
• proof of immunisation.

A request to conduct probity checks does not guarantee that an offer of employment will be made.

As part of our selection process, you may be invited by email to participate in an on-camera video interview.

Under the Victorian Public Health orders, all employees working within the Public Health system must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and are required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status. The current orders require evidence of three doses.
All applicants to positions with Monash Health will need to upload acceptable evidence of full vaccination against COVID-19 as part of their application. Acceptable evidence is a copy of your Immunisation History Statement or your COVID-19 Digital Certificate, which can be accessed via MyGov.

A position description is attached.