Physiotherapy

Bring your physiotherapy skills to the beautiful East Coast!

Small team with great potential for growth!

Come and be part of our small, supportive team of 25 staff based at Gisborne Hospital.

Inpatient team; see people admitted to wards and within other areas of the hospital including the emergency department, day of surgery unit, medical day unit.
Outpatient team; see people who can attend appointments onsite at the hospital.
Community team; see people in their homes, at school and work environments.

So many opportunities!

Teaching and learning; students, staff, in-service programme, further professional development opportunities.
Leadership and management; students, staff, physio teams.
Service improvement and research; service delivery, succession planning, recruitment and retention.

We have a wide variety of opportunities for different levels of skills or ongoing learning/development!

If you have an interest in any of the following areas; pelvic/women’s health, oncology and lymphoedema, hand therapy, paediatrics, concussion and cardio-respiratory we would like to support you and encourage you in this.
We can offer training and enable supervision/mentoring opportunities from current staff with expertise in these areas. This can be within or additional to your current interest/s. There are opportunities to expand into these areas.
Working in a rural environment can give you the opportunity to utilise all of your skills, and be challenged clinically.

Rotational roles involve rotating through the following;

Acute medical; respiratory, acute stroke, cardiac, mobility, interdisciplinary working.
Orthopaedics; acute trauma and electives.
Surgical; amputees, abdominal surgery, cancer.
ICU/HDU; expanding role with our ICU intensivist.
Rehab; geriatric, stroke, spinal cord injuries, amputees, post orthopaedic.
Outpatient; general MSK, ACC, post-surgical rehab, women’s health, respiratory clinic, hand therapy.
Community; strength and balance, falls, post orthopaedic, stroke, respiratory.