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• Women's and Children's Health Network, Allied Health, Spiritual Care, Complex and Sub-Acute Care, North Adelaide (5006)

• Salary/Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $104,180 to $111,746
• Employment Part time - Term Contract (temporary up to 1 May 2026)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Paediatric Chronic Pain Service team as a Senior Physiotherapist, where you will be responsible for:

• Using high-level professional knowledge and skill to manage referrals, provide physiotherapy assessments, make interpretations of assessment findings, and formulate and implement physiotherapy intervention plans in collaboration with patients, carers, and relevant other clinicians.
• Providing an expert education and consultancy service in chronic paediatric pain to WCHN staff and staff, particularly physiotherapists, of other health units that receive patients from WCHN health units.
• Managing caseload independently and effectively which include all diagnoses indicated in the Paediatric Chronic Pain triage criteria and require extensive paediatric physiotherapy experience.
• Implementing and evaluating physiotherapy services associated with the Paediatric Chronic Pain Service in collaboration with members of the Paediatric Chronic Pain Service.
• Managing complex cases autonomously, either as primary therapist or as consultant to other members of the physiotherapy team or wider WCHN.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Degree or equivalent qualification which entitles registration with the Physiotherapy Board of Australia.
• Ability to independently apply a high level of professional judgement relevant to paediatric chronic pain.
• Extensive evidence based clinical knowledge, sufficient to enable safe, effective, and autonomous physiotherapy management of paediatric chronic pain.
• Advanced ability to set priorities, organise activities, and achieve timely outcomes in a range of clinical and non-clinical situations.
• Experience in managing complex clinical situations with minimal professional supervision and managing time appropriately.
• Ability to interact with other people in a tactful, sensitive, and ethical manner.
• Initiative to improve personal and professional skills by seeking and acting on constructive feedback and by actively participating in self-directed and programmed professional development.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free public transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital workers to and from the Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Note: Does not apply to network community sites.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply 

Enquiries:

Emily Boundy

Position: Clinical Coordinator

Phone: 81618936

E-mail: Emily.Boundy@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 23/04/2025 – 11:55pm

Useful Links:

Role Description Senior Physiotherapist 2021 898432.pdf