Senior Physiotherapist
Nelson - New Zealand
Job Summary
Habit Health is one of New Zealands largest integrated health providers supporting people on their physical and mental health journeys. Were looking for a Senior Physiotherapist in Concussion & Rehabilitation to join our specialist rehabilitation this role youll use your clinical expertise to support people recovering from concussion and mild traumatic brain injury helping them achieve the best possible outcomes and return to work study sport and everyday life.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced physiotherapist who is passionate about concussion rehabilitation and enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Alongside managing a varied clinical caseload youll provide clinical support and mentoring to colleagues contribute to service development and help drive excellence in client care.
Main responsibilities:
- Deliver high quality evidence-based physiotherapy services for clients recovering from concussion and mild traumatic brain injury
- Manage a complex clinical caseload developing personalised rehabilitation programmes that support clients to achieve their goals
- Work collaboratively with occupational therapists psychologists rehabilitation support staff GPs specialists and other health professionals to deliver coordinated care
- Provide clinical mentoring and support to physiotherapy colleagues and contribute to a culture of continuous learning
- Promote best practice in concussion assessment rehabilitation and return-to-work planning
- Build strong relationships with clients whānau referrers funders and community stakeholders
- Contribute to service development quality improvement initiatives and the ongoing success of our concussion rehabilitation programme
The successful candidate will have:
- Current registration with the Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand and a current Annual Practising Certificate
- At least five years clinical physiotherapy experience ideally including concussion neurological musculoskeletal or community rehabilitation
- A passion for concussion rehabilitation and helping clients achieve meaningful recovery outcomes
- Experience working within multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams
- Strong clinical reasoning communication and relationship building skills
- Confidence mentoring colleagues and sharing clinical knowledge
- A commitment to person centred goal focused evidence based care
- A full drivers licence as travel across the region is required
Whats in it for you
- Professional development support including an annual professional development budget and paid study days
- Volunteer leave to support a charity or cause that matters to you
- Generous referral bonus scheme for successful candidate referrals
- Monthly high-performance rewards
- Wellbeing initiatives including annual eye exams discounts on glasses annual flu vaccination and access to Employee Assistance Programme services
- Corporate discounts across a wide range of services and products
- Enhanced AI tools to support efficiency and boost your performance
- 1K sign on bonus!
Provision of enhanced AI tools aimed at boosting your performance:
Habit is proud to have introduced Heidi Notes for all its clinicians to ensure they have access to the best possible tools to help them excel. Heidi is an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation and reduces administrative workload enabling you to spend more time delivering exceptional client turn youll be better positioned to make the most of our uncapped monthly incentive programme rewarding high performance every month.
If youre an experienced physiotherapist looking to advance your career in concussion rehabilitation while making a genuine difference in peoples lives wed love to hear from you.
For a copy of the position description click here or if you have any questions get in touch with Lucy at .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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