• Temporary part-time position - 45.6 hours per fortnight until June 30th, 2020.
• Exciting opportunity to work with an experienced multidisciplinary amputee rehabilitation team.
• Work for Victoria’s largest regional healthcare service organisation in a supportive and rewarding role.

About the facility

McKellar Centre provides comprehensive inpatient amputee rehabilitation services to patients from the broader South-west region of Victoria. With a responsive and dynamic prosthetics and orthotics service on-site and a full multidisciplinary team, the amputee rehabilitation team is able to provide excellent clinical care to the full range of amputee presentations. McKellar Centre has state-of-the-art treatment gyms that enhance the amputee rehabilitation experience for our patients. 

About the role 

Ideally, the successful applicant for the Senior Clinician role would combine the advertised hours with their substantive hours to create a full-time position due to the need to provide a 5-day per week service. However, applicants prepared to work the advertised hours across 5-days will also be considered. The primary function of this role is to provide inpatient amputee rehabilitation. This will include overseeing pre-prosthetic programs, prosthetic gait re-education (in conjunction with prosthetics and orthotics staff) and equipment prescription. In addition, the position is responsible for providing guidance and support to staff in amputee related matters external to McKellar Centre and Barwon Health. The role will also require close liaison with the outpatient amputee physiotherapist at McKellar Centre. Due to the fluctuating numbers of amputee rehabilitation inpatients, the successful applicant will be expected to support the broader physiotherapy rehabilitation team on South Wing of the IRC when amputee numbers are low. This will include working with orthopaedic and general rehabilitation patients. 

The successful applicant will be have significant experience in the management of amputee rehabilitation patients with demonstrated high level organisational and teamwork skills.

About the culture

We are an enthusiastic, energetic and focused team who work cohesively together. We promote positive respectful relationships and strong working partnerships in the workplace and in the community. As a team we are focussed on providing the highest quality patient centred care.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club
• Be our future Barwon Health Strategic Plan
• Aboriginal Employment Plan
• Our Commitment to Child Safety

• At Barwon Health we harness a diverse and inclusive workforce where we value each person’s uniqueness. We will embrace diverse life experiences and the perspectives of our people, whilst providing high-quality health care to all members of our community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Our organisation promotes the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of our staff and consumers including children, and have appropriate recruitment resources in place to ensure background checks and reference checks are completed.
• At Barwon Health we are committed to providing positive employment opportunities and outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and welcome employment applications from candidates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background.
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