Physiotherapist

Facility Physiotherapy work requires you to use lots of different skills at once. We visit a mutlitude of aged care homes in the regions of Melbourne. Your responsibilities may include: 

• Assessing new residents
• Running exercise classes
• Falls Prevention 
• Equipment Perscription
• Care plan development and evaluation 
• Manual Handling education 
• 1:1 private therapy 
• Chronic pain management (FYI – chronic pain programs require 3 resident treatments per hour).

Physiotherapy within a retirement village combines the ability to see private clients, but also have the flexibility of running exercise classes and building special relationships with residents. Your responsibilities may include: 

• Private-practice style appointments
• Use of diagnostic skills and hands-on treatment 
• Goal-orientated therapy
• Individualised services (e.g. Tai Chi, Hydrotherapy)
• Seated exercise classes
• High-level balance training
• Home Modification
• Work autonomously with peer support

In addition to the retirement villages you’ll visit, there is a growing list of senior clients who are ready to have their goals smashed in the community. Physiotherapy in the community encompasses travelling to anywhere a senior calls home. By entering someone’s home you can gain a greater sense of their limitation and what they need to be able to achieve their goals. Your responsibilities may include:

• Provide a mobile,  individualised service in a home environment
• Assist clients to create meaningful goals and develop goal plans to achieve these
• Goal-orientated therapy
• Rehabilitation services
• Equipment prescription
• Home Modification
• Autonomous work with peer support
• Work with home-care packages/TAC/DVA

Skills Needed:

• A physiotherapy degree
• An ability to build rapport with our clients and team
• Strong communication skills
• The ability to have fun & be a part of a close-knit family.
• Valid ‘Aged Care’ police check
• Valid drivers licence and car to get around in
• Valid First Aid Certificate

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