Job Description:
In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, the Physiotherapist supports residents to maintain optimal functional abilities to maximise independence and quality of life.
Key Responsibilities:
* Delivery of quality interventions with residents, including assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating physiotherapy treatments and programs for individual residents in the following core areas of professional practice:
* Mobility
* Fall and Injury Risk Management
* Chronic Disease Management
* Pain Management
Working Hours:
This position is offering 3 days per week with flexibility available across working days and start/finish times.
Duties:
* Supports a multi-disciplinary team approach that prioritises the physical and emotional wellbeing of individual residents across the residential care facility. This includes contributing to case conferences.
* Provides leadership, guidance and clinical supervision to the Lifestyle Coordinator and Therapy and Leisure Partners, ensuring needs of the resident are met in accordance with the residents' care plans, including therapeutic objectives.
* Models enablement of residents and provides direction and assistance to other staff members in performing their duties.
* Completes comprehensive assessments and regular reviews to identify residents' physical, psychosocial and emotional needs.
* Actively builds trusting relationships with individual residents that are based on dignity and respect to optimise cooperation, communicating in a manner that is appropriate to each individual's strengths and limitations.
* Lists family concerns and supports their understanding of changing needs, referring them for additional support as appropriate.
Requirements:
* Current registration with AHPRA as an Occupational Therapist
* An understanding and appreciation of contemporary Occupational Therapy practice and issues in aged care
* An ability to collaborate, negotiate and contribute toward multi-disciplinary team approach to care planning and delivery
* An ability to relate to older people with empathy, understanding and affording dignity and respect
* Willingness to obtain or provide proof of up-to-date Influenza & Covid-19 Vaccinations
* Willingness to undergo a pre-employment medical
* Willingness to obtain National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) check