Back physiotherapist

Early Back Review Clinic Physiotherapist - Allied Health

Part-time Temporary with a Possibility of Permanency

Closes: 29 April 2024

Classification: Health Professional Level 3

Salary: $99,819 - $105,180 (up to $110,398 on achieving a personal upgrade) plus superannuation

Position No: 61000 - 02H8N

Directorate: Canberra Health Services

Advertised (Gazettal date): 16 April 2024

Contact Officer: Kerry Boyd / Alison Smith on /

What can we offer you:

• City living without the traffic - click here to see why you should live in Canberra.
• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions.
• 11.5% Superannuation.
• Reimbursement of relocation expenses for interstate candidates (subject to review and approval).

About the Role:

The Division of Allied Health provides a range of allied health services across clinical Divisions based at Canberra Hospital. A strong emphasis is placed across all sections on accessible and timely care, delivered to a high standard of safety and quality. This is underpinned by the Division's commitment to research and training. The Division works in partnership with professional colleagues, consumers, and a range of government and non-government service providers to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

Acute Allied Health Services (AAHS) Physiotherapy provides services to a range of clients in acute inpatient wards and specialised outpatient settings.

The HP3 Physiotherapist in the Early Back Review (EBR) clinic is a new temporary position for a 11-month program aiming to optimise the management of patients with acute low back pain presenting to The Canberra Hospital Emergency Department, consistent with recommendations within the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Low Back Pain Clinical Care Standard (2023).

The HP3 Physiotherapist will meet with patients who have presented to Canberra Hospital with an episode of acute back pain, and whose initial care was in one or more of the Emergency Department, the Emergency Medical Unit, or the Acute Medical Unit. These patients will be offered an appointment with the HP3 EBR Physiotherapist within 2 weeks of their presentation. The purpose of the appointment will be to confirm the diagnosis and exclude serious/missed pathology, to assess contributing factors (including psychosocial factors) and to provide education and direction for ongoing management as appropriate, including completion of onward referrals and advice to the patients General Practitioner. Patients will attend only one appointment in this service.

The HP3 EBR Physiotherapist will report operationally to the AAHS Physiotherapy Manager via the HP4 Clinical Lead of the Spinal Pain Service and will have clinical support from the Clinical Lead of the Spinal Pain Service. The Spinal Pain Service is based at the Belconnen Community Health Centre and works closely with the Neurosurgery Service at Canberra Hospital, providing assessments and recommendations for patients referred for Outpatient Neurosurgery Specialty opinion.

The HP3 EBR Physiotherapist will be responsible for setting up the EBR Clinic, including liaison with Emergency Department and Administration staff regarding referrals and referral pathways, and data collection and service evaluation.

For more information regarding the position duties click here for the Position Description.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Undergo a pre-employment National Police Check.
• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

Note: This is a temporary position available at 22.05 hours per week for 11 months with possibility of extension and/or permanency.

For more information on this position and how to apply 'click here'

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website.

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together

Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community

Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

Canberra Hospital Expansion Project - CHS is constructing a new critical services building called 'Building 5' which is a 44,000sqm nine storey building specifically designed to deliver state-of-the-art acute clinical services at the Canberra Hospital. Building 5 is the largest healthcare infrastructure project undertaken in the Territory's history and it represents the largest clinical and operational change program to ever be implemented by Canberra Health Services. Building 5 integrates with a number of existing buildings at the Campus including Building 1 and Building 2, to facilitate a seamless public thoroughfare, patient transportation and back-of-house logistics distribution.

North Canberra Hospital - As of 3 July 2023 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce transitioned to CHS and became North Canberra Hospital. The transition will deliver a health system networked under one provider and will provide increased workforce opportunities for staff at both CHS sites. The ACT Government will be building a new northside hospital on the existing hospital campus in Bruce to meet the growing health care needs of our community, with construction to commence mid-decade providing more beds, increased services, and increased career opportunities.

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