• Rare opportunity to work in tertiary paediatric physiotherapy, in a great team
  
• Full time or Part time (3 days minimum) - fixed-term position until May 2024
  
• Based at Clayton - working Monday to Friday

Working in Healthcare has never been more important or meaningful.

Our Journey

Monash Children’s Hospital is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated children’s health services, with more than 30 specialist services and programs. We have Victoria’s largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and provide leading paediatric services in many areas including Rehabilitation & Oncology. Physiotherapy at Monash Children’s Hospital provides specialised services to paediatric patients across the continuum including inpatients, outpatients and via Hospital in the Home.

The Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) at Monash Children’s Hospital (MCH) cares for approximately 30% of Victoria’s childhood cancer patients. The CCC-MCH is also the primary treating team at Monash Health for children who are inpatients and outpatients with haematological conditions. The CCC has an ambulatory care unit that is capable of providing complex cancer care across the disease continuum and admits children with haematological and oncological conditions to the paediatric inpatient units within Monash Children’s.

Paediatric Physiotherapy at Monash Health

The physiotherapy team at Monash Children’s Hospital provides physiotherapy services to neonates, infants, children, adolescents and young adults, across a wide spectrum of clinical areas including neurology, respiratory, general paediatrics and orthopaedics.

A Day in the Life

You'll be primarily responsible for providing a dedicated physiotherapy service to MCH Children’s Cancer Centre to provide high quality assessment and intervention to all children and adolescents at diagnosis and throughout their cancer treatment.

Key to your success is the implementation of prescriptive guidelines to maintain and maximise physical performance and improve quality of life in children and adolescents with a cancer diagnosis undergoing chemotherapy.

You'll also be part of the acute ward/general paediatrics clinical team, providing care and management to infants and children on the acute wards across a wide variety of clinical areas (respiratory, orthopaedics, neurology).

In addition you'll provide supervision to Physiotherapists, Allied Health Assistants and physiotherapy students and will lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives.

We will support you with training opportunities to expand skills also form part of this role as opportunities arise. So that you are successful in this role you'll have exceptional attentional to detail, time management and communication skills - verbal and written.

You are a dedicated, collaborative, team player and leader who thrives in dynamic situations where there is lots of variety and scope. Your attention to detail.

This opportunity is fixed term until May 2024 to cover parental leave. We can accommodate full time hours or if you prefer part time (minimum 3 days a week) we are open to discussing this also. Whilst predominately working Monday to Friday, you will be required to participate in a late shift roster, and a weekend and public holiday roster to support the most critically unwell children within Monash Health.

What you will need:

• Relevant physiotherapy qualification
• Current unconditional AHPRA registration
• Considerable paediatric clinical experience, or oncology clinical experience with transferable skills
• Demonstrated experience in teaching, training and education
• Demonstrated experience in the management of variety of paediatric conditions

In Return

We are a diverse team of allied health clinicians working in a supportive and flexible department with close links to our community and adult colleagues. We support career progression and professional development, with opportunities to grow your career in many different directions. This role is classified as a Grade 2 Physiotherapist and is paid according to award rates with post graduate qualification allowance as applicable.

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Laura Morel on 0435 967722 or David Harding on 0435 697696.

Monash Health is a great place to work

Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

• salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
• a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
• free vaccinations
• private health insurance at discounted rates
• health imaging services
• & more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. More than 22,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne.

We recognise 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 and our five ICare values:

How to Apply

Applications are only accepted that are submitted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit), via the Apply now link.

For information including how to apply and probity check requirements, please refer to attached ‘Application Guide’ located under Position Documents.

Please note, applications will be screened upon receipt and selection activity may commence prior to the closing date.