Physiotherapist

Physiotherapist- Macquarie

Make a real difference working within our Macquarie Services Team as a Physiotherapist / Service Quality Lead, partnering with leaders to support the teams who make a meaningful difference in the lives of people with vision and hearing loss.

Enjoy flexibility, two weeks of additional leave, and access to not-for-profit salary packaging benefits.

This is a Permanent Part-Time opportunity (30.4 hours per week) reporting to the Team Lead – Macquarie and based at our Macquarie location.

This is a hybrid role, combining approximately three days equivalent of clinical physiotherapy with one day equivalent of Service Quality Lead responsibilities, offering the opportunity to influence both individual client outcomes and the quality and consistency of physiotherapy services across the team.

What we can offer you:

• Salary of up to $120,912+ Super, with 100% salary packaging to maximise your take home pay
• Generous leave entitlements including 2 weeks paid Christmas leave in addition to 4 weeks annual leave, plus extensive personal/carer's leave
• Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary carer and 6 weeks for secondary carer
• Access to industry leading education, professional development opportunities and career pathways

You’ll make a difference in this role by:

• Delivering evidence-based physiotherapy assessment and intervention to children and young people with vision and/or hearing loss, supporting them and their families to achieve meaningful goals and maximise participation at home, school and in the community.
• Providing goal-based therapy that promotes motor development, mobility, independence and participation, while recommending equipment and assistive technology to optimise functional outcomes.
• Delivering services across a range of settings, including NextSense centres, client homes, schools and via telepractice, while maintaining a clinical caseload and high-quality clinical documentation.
• Contributing to service quality leadership by developing, implementing and reviewing evidence-based clinical protocols, service models and quality improvement initiatives that promote best practice.
• Providing clinical leadership through supervision, mentoring, onboarding and professional development to build capability and foster clinical excellence.
• Monitoring clinical outcomes and contributing to clinical governance, continuous improvement activities and sustainable, high-quality service delivery.
• Leading or contributing to service improvement projects and collaborating with leaders and stakeholders to achieve strategic and operational priorities.
• Building strong relationships with clients, families, referrers and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver coordinated, client-centred services.

About You:

• A minimum of 7 years' experience providing physiotherapy services, with demonstrated sound clinical knowledge and skills. Relevant equivalent experience will also be considered.
• Be able to work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to client outcomes in a team setting
• Prior experience in working with clients with a sensory disability highly desirable
• Experience working towards goals and key performance indicators
• Working knowledge of NDIS framework desirable
• Ability to learn new systems, processes and frameworks
• Current valid driver’s licence
• Valid Working With Children Check and NDIS Workers Check (or willingness to obtain)
• Full Registration with AHPRA.
• You are obliged to become familiar with, and comply with child protection policies and legislation, as amended from time to time

Our Purpose and Ambition

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.                  

How to apply:

If this role sounds like you, please click on the apply button and follow the prompts.

If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Rebecca Maxwell, Network Manager Macquarie at ***************@nextsense.org.au for a confidential chat.

NextSense is a child safe organisation, candidate compliance with child protection legislation is essential.