Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.  

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role 
• Provide strategic level management, applying well-developed clinical knowledge to challenge existing protocols and advocating authoritatively for a large team of Physiotherapists operating across multiple sites and multiple clinical specialties within the Bayside Health Services.
• Accountable for all aspects of operational management of the Physiotherapy and Podiatry Departments, including performance appraisal and other general people management issues across multiple facilities/specialties and divisions across the service.
• Accountable for the clinical governance of physiotherapy clinical services through the application of high-level clinical knowledge, expertise and problem solving skills to ensure alignment with health service imperatives and professional standards.  The position also coordinates and/or provides professional support/supervision to physiotherapy pre-entry students and mentoring to multidisciplinary team members. 
• Provide authoritative counsel to Health Service Executive and other stakeholders to advise and inform strategic level management processes across both the physiotherapy and podiatry workforce across the health service/state to ensure effective cooperation within and across work units to enhance service delivery, quality outcomes and/or patient services.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

Eligible health workers may qualify for a Workforce Attraction Incentive payment. To find out more and see if you are eligible visit: https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives ( https://www.healthycareers.health.qld.gov.au/attraction-incentives )

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).