Senior Physiotherapist - Surgical (522970L6)

Senior Physiotherapist – AHP Level 3 –Surgical

Fixed Term Part time (64 hours / fortnight) Shift Worker Position

(maternity leave cover until 18/2/26)

Tasmanian Health Service – North (Launceston General Hospital)

To be Tasmanian is to pursue quality over quantity. We create, preserve, and protect the unusual. With passion and perseverance, with an embrace of our history and our stories, we quietly pursue the extraordinary. Could you be Tasmanian?

You can be a Senior Physiotherapist anywhere. What’s different about Tasmania is our culture and our lifestyle. You will be encouraged to be yourself, to learn, to grow and to develop meaning in your work. You will have a powerful connection to your patients, and the community will encourage your success. Our isolation helps drive a culture of invention and human connection, which feels both old fashioned and… like the only future worth pursuing.

Here you’ll be spoilt for choice when it comes to awe-inspiring scenery, endless trails and National Parks, and award-winning restaurants or bars. After a hard day at work, you don’t sit in a car or train for an hour. You can get on your bike or put on your boots and “tell it to a mountain”.

Some people enjoy the outdoors on weekends, hiking or mountain biking, or take painting classes, write novels, sell preserves at the weekly farmers’ market, become a wine connoisseur. We are small enough in Tasmania for you to shape and influence your work and make a real impact every day. Yet we are big enough for you to feel part of something important, somewhere you can belong and be surrounded by diversity, innovation, and friendships. Tasmanians are connected to the land where we live, and to the stories of the people who have cared for this place for tens of thousands of years.

We are a close-knit group with 80 in our Physio team, an eclectic mix of locals and new Tasmanian adventurers. Here, we work to the top of our scope, and continue to push the boundaries of this, trying new ideas and fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration. This team values evidence-informed care and research, as a senior in our surgical physio team, you will be working alongside Ianthe Boden, an expert in perioperative care, in the home of research and enhanced model of cares for major abdominal surgery, which are being implemented and adapted worldwide. Influential in setting a scene for the pursuit of better. And you’ll be encouraged to be part of that. Based within our General and Orthopaedic Surgical Wards and Pre-operative unit, while sharing your expertise and teaching to our emerging therapists across our service, you will work alongside Sarah Turner who would be happy to share her experience working in the health service and physio team: sarah.turner@ths.tas.gov.au

We’ll look after you from the very beginning, ensure you are fully inducted and welcomed into our team and into our culture. Your fellow Allied Health colleagues, as well as the Nursing, and Specialist Surgical teams, will rely on you thriving in your work and will be invested in making this a reality. Take a look at the Statement of Duties below for more details.

For more information about becoming a Physiotherapist in Northern Tasmania, or to learn more about what we can do for you (relocation, salary benefits, development opportunities, etc) please email or phone Emily, our A /Discipline Lead - Physiotherapy: emily.farquhar@ths.tas.gov.au or (03) 6777 6216.

If you need any more convincing about our beautiful part of the world, here it is Northern Tasmania,  Department of Health, Tasmania and Tasmanian Health Stories - YouTube.