Acute Physiotherapist - Emergency Department Fixed Term at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waikato, Waikato
Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role
- Waikato Hospital
- 40 hours per week (1.0FTE). This is a full time, fixed term position up until the 27th of March 2026, 80 hours per fortnight. The position is Monday to Friday except for one week of the month where you will be rostered Tuesday to Saturday.
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.
About the Role
Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge in a busy hospital setting? Are you someone who thrives under pressure and brings a can do attitude to the workplace? Are you flexible, love to learn and wish to grow? We are seeking an experienced physiotherapist who exemplifies collaboration and autonomy, thinks on their feet, is resourceful and can accurately diagnose patients in our busy emergency department here at Waikato Hospital.
As a successful candidate you will play a key role in assessing our ED patients to determine if an admission or clearance for home is required. You will be expected to work at pace and develop high trust relationships with our multi-disciplinary staff in the ED to provide accurate diagnosis and clear directives to help optimise hospital flow. This position involves all aspects of physiotherapy practice in an academic tertiary hospital setting in one of New Zealand’s fastest growing regions. Our emergency department is the regional tertiary department for Te Manawa Taki. We offer peer review, supervision, continuing education and professional development, comprehensive online information and an excellent library of resources.
Come and join our dynamic team where every day brings new challenges in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment. You'll collaborate closely with your peers to prioritise patient care across the acute service, delivering focused and impactful therapy sessions that make a real difference to the lives of our patients and make an impact in one of New Zealand’s largest industries. The ED role is part of the acute medical team and so you will be seeing patients in both the acute medical wards and the emergency department.
We also have an exciting weekend on-call service which provides you with the exposure and experience to advance and/or maintain your respiratory and acute care skills.
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Be hardworking, responsible, driven and reliable
- Learning mind set, flexible and adaptable
- Carry a full caseload of patients
- Provide high quality, safe and effective care
- Manage your time and prioritise effectively
- Take feedback on and use it to drive your growth
About the Team
The Physiotherapy service has approximately 90 staff including Physiotherapists, assistants and administrators that work across the large geographical area that is Te Whatu Ora, Waikato. We have staff based at Waikato Hospital, our secondary hospital in Thames and our 3 rural hospitals in Tokoroa, Te Kuiti and Taumaranui and across our many community bases in areas such as Morrinsville, Matamata, Cambridge, and Ngaruawahia.
Our vision is to provide quality physiotherapy care to promote, encourage and enable health, wellbeing and independence for the patients and Whanau in the communities we serve. Our mission is to ensure that patients receive excellence of care, that our staff are supported and trained to work and maintain levels of evidence based practice and that our service is equitable, efficient and effective in order to meet the needs of our patients and their Whanau. We pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive team who are keen to grow and develop our staff.
About you
Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:
- Have at least 3 year experience
- ED experience essential
- Musculoskeletal and vestibular experience preferred
- Current NZ physiotherapy registration and APC
- Passion for learning, be adaptable to change and be eager to gain clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas
- Evidence informed assessment and treatment skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Mentor and train junior clinicians and students
- Opportunity to join our weekend and on-call roster
- You will need the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as part of the physiotherapy and wider multi-disciplinary team across a variety of environments
- You will have excellent communication skills in order to effectively liaise with patients, their Whanau and other health care professionals
- If you have any questions about the role please phone Kasper Kulak, Physiotherapy manager ph: 021991624
Working for Health New Zealand
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.
Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion
- We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
- We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.
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How to Apply
Please click ‘Apply online’ or apply via our Waikato Careers Website by clicking here All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 10th of February 2025. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Elisa Travailleur elisa.travailleur@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz.
Please note, we will be reviewing applications when received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.
Ngā taipitopito tūranga mahi | Job details
Employer: | Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waikato |
Location: | Waikato |
Position type: | Contract/Temp Full time |
Category: | Health |
Date listed: | 20-Jan-2025 |
Salary range: | |
Closing date: | 10-Feb-2025 |
Reference: | WAI28084 |
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Website: | https://www.waikatodhb.health.nz/ |
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