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Physiotherapist - Senior


Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba

Complex care. Diverse opportunities. Meaningful impact.

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Take your clinical expertise further at Princess Alexandra Hospital. With multiple opportunities across a diverse range of specialist and complex clinical areas, you'll work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team and make a meaningful difference to patient care.

Job details

Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Flexible-full-time,Flexible-part-time
Occupational group Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support
Classification HP4
Workplace Location Brisbane Inner City,Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS10692865
Closing date 11-Oct-2026
Job duration Variable lengths, up to 12 months
Contact person Thomas McInnes
Contact details (07) 3176 2401
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Your application may be considered for multiple temporary Senior Physiotherapist opportunities across different clinical areas. As part of the application process, you will be asked to nominate your preferred clinical areas.

While we will endeavour to match candidates with their preferences, placement will be subject to operational requirements, clinical experience and available opportunities.

Your new role:

Provide high quality clinical Physiotherapy services within a busy and diverse tertiary hospital environment. You'll manage complex caseloads with a high degree of autonomy, working collaboratively with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams to achieve safe, effective and person centred outcomes. You will:

  • Provide senior Physiotherapy services including assessment, intervention, clinical decision making and discharge planning for patients with complex needs.
  • Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, providing clinical advice and contributing to high quality Physiotherapy services.
  • Support junior clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants through supervision and education, while contributing to quality and service improvement.

About you:

You are an experienced Physiotherapist who can confidently manage complex clinical presentations in a fast paced tertiary hospital environment. You will bring sound clinical judgement, strong communication skills and a commitment to compassionate, patient centred care. You will have:

  • Strong clinical expertise and the ability to independently assess, prioritise and manage complex Physiotherapy caseloads.
  • Highly developed communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to provide clinical advice and build positive relationships with patients, families and multidisciplinaryteams.
  • Leadership and service improvement capability, including the ability to support less experienced clinicians and students and contribute to education and service improvement.

What we can offer you:

  • We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
  • We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
  • You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

About Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.

Further information

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

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

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Last updated
2 May 2023

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