Physiotherapist | Pain Management - Dandenong

About us

Advance Healthcare have been providing multi-disciplinary services including physiotherapy to the community for over 25 years. We pride ourselves on the highest standards in health service delivery with an evidence-based approach to patient management. This role is ideally suited to practitioners wanting to fulfil their clinical and commercial potential in a highly paying and performance focussed team environment. 

Chronic pain is complex and optimally treated in a multi-disciplinary pain management program (including physiotherapy, psychology, nutrition and medical). With seven clinics, we are one of the largest Pain Management providers in Australia. Evidence on the effectiveness of our programs have been demonstrated compared to 120 other pain management providers in the Electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC). 

Applicants do not need experience in pain management and full training and mentoring is provided. All our practitioners are committed to life long learning and a process of continuous improvement of our clinical standards. Your caseload will be predominantly pain management patients. Opportunities are available for supported programs leading towards clinical titling and specialisation working with Associate Professor Jon Ford (PhD and Specialist Pain and Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist). 

Our clinical model emphasises individualised care for all patients involving a comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment and treatment based on the prioritised barriers to recovery. This approach develops the practitioner's skill in biological and psychosocially informed practice which includes high level clinical reasoning and clinical skills from a musculoskeletal perspective. Our mentoring and student supervision program provides further opportunity to develop musculoskeletal skills. This learning experience is comparable with clinical supervision in a Musculoskeletal Masters program (despite the caseload being chronic pain).

Advance Healthcare embraces inclusion and diversity and has a unique organisational culture and practitioner retention rate. Work-life balance is paramount to the sustained success.

Please visit www.advancehealthcare.com.au for more information on our services and organisation

About this opportunity

• This is NOT an employee role.  Total FTE earnings of $120,000 to $230,000 per annum (allowing for 35 hours per week and 4 weeks annual leave) as an independent contractor. Note the SEEK platform does not allow this to be described in the job summary

• Career progression pathway based on clinical performance using clearly defined metrics

• Practitioners reaching the highest level of career progression have the potential of becoming a business owner with total earnings capacity of over $300,000

• Advance Healthcare has a robust and extensive professional referral network. Practitioners can expect a full list of patients on commencement

• Annual professional development allowance

• All sales, marketing and administrative services provided so practitioners can focus on learning high quality clinical care

• Work with over 70 expert medical and allied health professionals in a highly collaborative and culturally diverse team of physicians, psychologists, and physiotherapists

• Option to participate in our world-class clinical research projects with a focus on individualised physiotherapy in advanced motor control training and Acceptance and commitment therapy (see www.stops.physio for our research publications)

About you

• Full registration with AHPRA

• One year or more of relevant clinical experience. Exceptional new graduates (based on undergraduate performance) are open to apply

• A strong interest in developing high level clinical skills as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary pain management team

• Looking for a long term role with career opportunities to help you fulfil your potential clinically and commercially

• Current laptop or desktop machine no more than 3 years old and with 16GB RAM with a subscription to Microsoft 365 standard (with access to the desktop versions of Word, Excel, Outlook)

How to apply

Apply via SEEK and please include your resume and cover letter. Applications without a cover letter that address the above criteria will not be contacted or short listed.