Physiotherapy Department Head - Permanent Ft - Royal Hospital For Women

Physiotherapy Department Head - Permanent FT - Royal Hospital for Women

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District

REQ493387 Requisition #

Employment Type:
Permanent Full Time
Position Classification:
Physiotherapist Level 6
Remuneration:
$135,544 - $138,900 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week:
38
Requisition ID:
REQ493387

Where you'll be working

The Royal Hospital for Women is a distinguished healthcare institution with a strong focus on women's well-being.Affiliated with esteemed academic institutions like UNSW and Sydney University, RHW offers a wide range of services, including maternity, neonatal care and gynaecology.The hospital is committed to education, research, and excellence, and it operates as a major referral centre in New South Wales. It's a hub of innovation and expertise in womens health, ensuring comprehensive care for women and their families.

What you'll be doing

Royal Hospital for Women has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to lead the Physiotherapy Department.

This position has operational accountability for the physiotherapy service within The Royal Hospital for Women and reports to The Royal Hospital for Women Director of Nursing and Midwifery or delegate and has professional accountability to the Physiotherapy Advisor. The position is responsible for specialist physiotherapy clinical service provision in all areas of women's health. This is a combined position of Department Head and Clinical Specialist of Women's Health.

The Physiotherapy Department head provides leadership and strategic direction, expert clinical care provision facilitates the implementation of high levels of inpatient and outpatient clinical expertise and consultancy to provide high-quality care to patients/clients and their carers. This includes monitoring, surveillance and reporting of service provision. Evaluation, advanced reasoning and clinical practice skills are required in the management of clients of a novel or complex nature, as well as providing expert consultation and education across SESLHD in the area of women's health. The position contributes directly to the development of policy in alignment with evidence and best practice.

South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is committed to improving the care provided to our patients in line with our vision of Working together to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

Benefits

- A workplace culture with a foundation that promotes person centred care approaches and staff wellbeing

- Orientation and supported transition into your new role

- Salary Packaging - up to $9k for living expenses + $2.6k meal &
entertainment + novatedleasing

- Corporate health and fitness program

- Inner city location with direct access to eastern suburbs beaches, restaurants and transport links that are right at the front door

- Monthly rostered days off (RDOs)

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

All Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.

Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza v accination or have a medical contraindication to influenza vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.

SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.

Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates

We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to:

Selection Criteria:

• Recognised qualification in Physiotherapy in accordance with Schedule C of the NSW Health Professionals (State) Award, current registration with the Board of Physiotherapy and commitment to own ongoing professional development.
• Extensive management experience as a registered Physiotherapist, knowledge of network policies, procedures, professional and clinical issues relating to women's health.
• Proven ability to provide high level of leadership and strategic direction, with demonstrated ability to collaboratively design, implement, evaluate and report on departmental resources and services.
• Evidence of expertise and/or clinical specialisation in Women's Men's &
  Pelvic Health Physiotherapy, including extensive clinical experience, especially of novel, complex and critical presentations of continence &
  women's health disorders and disease.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build sustainable partnerships with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated leadership in research, education and training including relevant experience in knowledge transfer and the translation of evidence into practice within continence &
  women's health physiotherapy.
• Ability to provide leadership and direction in assisting the flexible utilisation and coordination of resources to enhance service delivery across the system and state-wide network of women's health services.

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