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Transform Lives: Home Based & In-reach Rehabilitation Physiotherapist Opportunity | SALHN!

Join SALHN's innovative Rehabilitation Team as an AHP2 Physiotherapist for both Home Rehabilitation and Mobile Rehabilitation Teams.  Home Rehabilitation: This multidisciplinary Home Rehabilitation service supports early hospital discharge by delivering expert rehabilitation services to patients in their home environment across Adelaide's southern suburbs. 
Mobile Rehabilitation Team: This multidisciplinary team is provides early in-reach rehabilitation to patients in the acute hospital, focusing on maximising functional outcomes and early discharge to ambulatory rehabilitation settings. 
This physiotherapist role offers the perfect blend of clinical autonomy, meaningful patient connections, and the opportunity to break traditional healthcare boundaries while working for South Australia's largest and most progressive health network. Make every day count as you transform lives, advance your career, and be part of ground-breaking healthcare delivery that puts patients first in their own familiar environments.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Home Rehabilitation and Mobile Rehabilitation Team Manager, some of your duties for the role will include:

• Work in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team to effectively plan and provide therapeutic interventions based on patient goals
• Clinical Physiotherapy assessment of patients’ physical abilities, and goals using a variety of formal and informal assessments
• Communicating with patients’ family, carers and other service providers
• Providing a consultative service advice regarding Physiotherapy to other team members, disciplines and agencies
• Participating in interdisciplinary clinical and planning activities to enhance the overall service provided to patients
• Participating in, and, where appropriate initiating quality and service improvement activities within the team
• Devise therapy programs and supervise Therapy Assistants in their implementation of these

About you:

• Ability to assess and provide appropriate Physio-therapeutic management to the patients of the ambulatory rehabilitation service with increasing levels of complexity
• Experience as a clinician in the assessment and provision of high quality rehabilitation to clients with a variety of conditions requiring a rehabilitative approach
• High levels of responsibility and organisational skills including the ability to prioritise work, meet deadlines, delegate appropriately.  This includes the ability to supervise students and allied health assistants.
• Experience in establishing and maintaining high standards of physiotherapy
• High level interpersonal, negotiating, counselling and problem solving skills with the ability to communicate with clients, other professional staff and community agencies both verbally and in writing

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Lauren Bate, Manager Home, Outreach and TeleRehabilitation, (08) 8404 2290, Lauren.Bate@sa.gov.au 

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Monday 1st September 2025 

Attachments:

• 912761 Physiotherapist Home Rehabilitation - Role Description
• 912761 Physiotherapist Mobile Rehabilitation Team - Role Description
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• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 912761