• Join our innovative team to provide world class health care to our community
• Work with our consumers for improvements in health and wellbeing
• Ongoing training and professional development in a supported work environment

About the facility 

Barwon Health has five major community health centres, Corio, Belmont, Newcomb, Torquay and Anglesea which provide a range of services to the Barwon region. The Belmont Community Health Centre’s services include counselling, diabetic educators, physiotherapy, nursing, occupational therapy, speech pathology dental services and many more. Belmont Primary Care is located at the recently redeveloped Belmont Community Health Centre. The centre is shared with numerous teams including community rehabilitation, community nursing, and immunisation, dental and mental health. It is a fabulous opportunity to work closely with these other co-located teams.

Belmont Community Health Centre (CHC) reception renovated to accommodate dental reception due to number of ‘behaviour of concern’ incidents in the open-plan dental reception.

About the role 

A part time podiatrist is required to contribute to and be part of the community - based multidisciplinary community health team to support consumers and carers to achieve an optimum level of health independence through:

• Comprehensive, co-ordinated and integrated multidisciplinary services,
• Provision of consumer –centred care to community members from a broad range of backgrounds.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of high quality, cost effective community-based podiatry services.
• Contribute to meeting the program and community health team key performance indicators (KPI’s).

All activities of the position will reflect current best practice standards for podiatry. The position will operate according to relevant legislation, Barwon Health policies, and program and department guidelines.

Note: This is a temporary part time opportunity until May 2020

About the culture

Become a part of a team who enjoys an interesting, challenging and meaningful work life. Continue to grow and develop your talents and capabilities with Barwon Health’s commitment to professional development.

Barwon Health staff benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development
• Access to employee wellness facility
• Salary packaging
• Social club

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.

We Barwon Health is proud to be Totally Smoke Free.