Position Description
Title:
Senior Physiotherapist
Employment Type:
Full time or Part-time negotiable
Division/Branch/Section:
Rewire and Therapeutic Services
Reporting to:
Team Leader
Location:
Central (City) Rewire Hub with surrounding community.
Position Purpose:
To provide clinical expertise in the delivery of Physiotherapy Services ensuring the development and delivery of high quality service provision that meet the needs of the clients of BISA.
Key Result Areas:
Clinical Service Provision, Interdisciplinary Practice and Teamwork, Staff and Student Supervision, Quality and Safety.
Key Challenges:
Maintaining a complex caseload and at least 5 billable hours per working day.
Position Summary
Working as part of multidisciplinary team focussed on the needs of participants with acquired brain injury, the Senior Physiotherapists in our team are responsible for the provision and management of specialised, high quality Physiotherapy services delivered within Brain Injury SA.
Duties include:
- Managing and evaluating best practice.
- Maintaining high level clinical standards in supervision of staff and students.
- Implementing innovative clinical practices.
The incumbent also assists the hub Team Leader in:
- Managing human and physical resources required to meet service demand.
- Developing and documenting systems to support quality and clinical standards.
- Providing advice and consultancy to service funders, management and professional networks.
- Providing clinical and professional leadership to Physiotherapists.
Position Requirements
Key Result Area 1: Advanced Clinical Service Delivery
Objectives
Providing advanced clinical skills to participants and maintaining currency of knowledge in relevant specialist areas of Physiotherapy.
Position holder is successful when:
- Services provided are client centred, founded in evidence or best practice and undertake a goal orientated approach.
- Interdisciplinary team has access to advanced and current clinical knowledge in specialist area to deliver best practice.
Co-ordinating Physiotherapy service provision.
Position holder is successful when:
- Physiotherapy workloads including work allocation, and resource planning are effectively managed for efficiency and effectiveness including meeting organisational KPI’s.
- Close collaboration occurs with the Team Leader – Central and the Discipline Lead, Physiotherapy, to ensure participant needs can be accommodated and good service planning occurs.
Maintaining professional standards and meet organisational requirements in all reporting, recording and administrative practices.
Position holder is successful when:
- Participant service records are maintained to a professional standard of completeness and accuracy.
- Staff supervised are supported to achieve required standards in all reporting and administrative practices.
Key Result Area 2: Interdisciplinary Practice and Teamwork
Objectives
Working for excellence in interdisciplinary practice.
Position holder is successful when:
- Brain Injury SA staff have access to specialist Physiotherapy advice and service information as required.
- Therapeutic disciplines work collaboratively to identify and best address the needs of participants, enhance service delivery outcomes and influence service development
- Consultancy is available as needed to members of the Rewire team and Senior Management team in clinical discipline specific matters.
Team Participation.
Position holder is successful when:
- The Team Leader, Allied Health, is supported in providing leadership and achieving best-practice through excellence in collaboration and communication.
- Opportunities to participate in and contribute to the broader staff team and work of Brain Injury SA are undertaken positively and constructively.
Key Result Area 3: Staff and Student Supervision
Objectives
Providing leadership and mentorship to junior Physiotherapy staff.
Position holder is successful when:
- Junior PT staff and Allied Health Assistants enjoy a work environment that supports their learning and development with a particular focus on the building of specialist expertise in the management and treatment of brain injury.
- Supervised staff are enabled to identify educational and development needs through regular feedback supported by annual performance reviews.
- Staff personal and professional development and that of the discipline is facilitated through educational programs and access to workshops, courses and conferences in line with organisational policy and budget capacity.
Providing clinical education to Physiotherapy students.
Position holder is successful when:
- Physiotherapy students experience a well-structured, inspiring and supported opportunity tailored to their learning and developmental needs.
- Through role modelling, students develop a culture of professionalism, accountability and reflective practice.
- Personal and professional development of staff and the discipline is facilitated through educational programs and access to workshops, courses and conferences.
- Relevant communication is maintained with supervising universities, supporting development of clinical knowledge and interest in specialist employment in the area of brain injury amongst students.
Key Result Area 4: Quality and Safety
Objectives
Developing and appropriately reviewing policies and procedures specific to Physiotherapy service provision.
Position holder is successful when:
- National Standards for Disability Services are achieved and meet or exceed auditing requirements.
- Policies and procedures are available as required to support delivery of quality and safe Physiotherapy practice to participants with Brain Injury SA.
- Policies and procedures are implemented and periodically audited for quality purposes.
Ensuring compliance with applicable legal and professional standards, with a particular focus in the practice of Physiotherapy.
Position holder is successful when:
- Clinical standards and ethical practice is maintained in all Physiotherapy service provision.
- Supervised staff work safely in their practice seeking support and guidance appropriately.
Adhere to and contribute to development of work health and safety monitoring and reporting.
Position holder is successful when:
- Organisational work health, safety and injury management (WHS&IM) policies and procedures are adhered to.
- Supervised staff, students and volunteers are provided with access to the necessary information, instruction, training and supervision to effectively and safely carry out their work.
Purpose and Values: An all-staff requirement
Key Tasks
- Actively support the purpose and values of Brain Injury SA
- Positively and constructively represent BISA to external contacts at all opportunities
- Behaves in a way that contributes to a workplace that is free of discrimination, harassment and bullying behaviour at all times
- Operates in line with BISA’s policies and practices
- Helps ensure the health, safety and welfare of self and others working in the organisation
- Follows reasonable directions given by the organisation in relation to workplace health & safety
- All appointments at BISA are subject to provision of a satisfactory “Disability Service” and “Child Safety” worker screening
Key Relationships/Interactions
- CEO
- Manager Allied Health Operations/Discipline Lead
- Team leader – Applicable Hub
- Allied Health staff
- Participants and carers
Qualifications/Registrations/Experience
Essential
- Relevant qualification in Physiotherapy
- Professional Registration with AHPRA
- A current driver’s license
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in Physiotherapy assessment and service delivery with Adults.
- Current (within the last 3 years) DCSI “Child related employment screening”
Desirable
- Experience working with adults with Acquired Brain Injury
- NDIS knowledge / experience
- Experience supervising students and junior staff
Core Competencies
Demonstrated
- Clinical practice and case load management
- Service planning and delivery
- Highly developed interpersonal skills incorporating excellent communication, organisational and negotiation skills
- Leadership