Skip links and keyboard navigation

Job search

Physiotherapist - Senior (Hospital in the Home) - Cairns North


Cairns

Make the move. Make a difference.

Banner image

Help people get back to what matters.

An exciting opportunity to join Hospital in the Home Services as a Senior Physiotherapist. Independently delivers high-level physiotherapy services, provides clinical leadership and supervision to staff and students, and acts as a key reference for physiotherapy and multidisciplinary stakeholders across CHHHS. Reports operationally to the Allied Health Team Leader HITH and professionally to the Director of Physiotherapy CHHHS.

Job details

Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Part-time
Occupational group Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support
Classification HP4
Workplace Location Cairns region,Far North Qld
Job ad reference QLD/CAH680942
Closing date 07-May-2026
Job duration Please see Role Description
Contact person Mary-Anne Tangey
Contact details 07 4226 0742
Access the National Relay Service

About us:

Hospital in the Home (HITH) provides care in a patient's permanent or temporary residence for conditions that require ongoing clinical governance, monitoring and/or treatment, as a substitution for in-hospital admitted care.

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service provide an extensive range of health services at more than 30 regional, rural and remote facilities across a geographical area of 142,900 square kilometres. The Health Service is 95 percent self-sufficient with only a small number of high-level acute services being provided in Townsville and Brisbane.

We're committed to improving the health and wellbeing of people in Far North Queensland by providing high quality acute health care services.

About your role:

  • Deliver high level physiotherapy clinical and consultancy services as part of a multi-professional team, in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards.
  • Contribute to the daily operational management of the HITH team and organisation of the workload with allocated resources using planning, time management skills and prioritisation.
  • Work cooperatively and effectively by maintaining timely, open and respectful communication (including accurate documentation and reporting) within multi-professional teams, with consumers, their families/carers and other health professionals, supervisors, students and researchers as required.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD) evidence as required for your employment in accordance with legislation/government policy and Directives.

What we offer:

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest. 

Learn what it's like to work with us, in an inclusive and supportive work environment.

Discover our dynamic and culturally diverse region through community and lifestyle.

Listen to what some of our staff have to say about working in our regions.

Visit our website to learn more about our hospitals and health centres.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are to apply online. If the information requested in the ‘how to apply’ section is not provided, you may not meet the requirements for further consideration of your application.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

Job search


  1. Please use * for wildcard searches.
  2. Search exact phrase
    Check to search for the exact phrase. Uncheck to return jobs that contain any of the keywords.

  3. Hold down the control (Ctrl) button and use your computer mouse to select multiple options

  4. Hold down the control (Ctrl) button and use your computer mouse to select multiple options
  5. Salary (yearly) Leave blank if you are searching for casual jobs
  6. Total Remuneration Only used for Senior Medical or Executive positions

Need help? Contact us

If you have any questions about your account or accessing this website, please contact our helpdesk.

If you wish to view or update applications submitted for Queensland Health roles, please log in on the QH Careers site.

Inclusion and diversity

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity, including making any reasonable adjustments to support you through the recruitment process.

Graduate portal

This recruitment portal is your gateway to a wide range of graduate program positions on offer in the Queensland Government.

Visit the Queensland Graduate Portal

( https://www.graduates.qld.gov.au/ )
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0)
Last updated
2 May 2023

Page feedback

  1. How satisfied are you with your experience today? *
View cookie preferences Please click here to view your cookie settings preferences for this site.