Senior Clinician Physiotherapist - Orthopaedics, Acute Allied Health

Senior Clinician Physiotherapist - Orthopaedics, Acute Allied Health

Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau – Auckland, North Island

Full Time, Permanent

Remunerations as per PSA Allied Health MECA guidelines

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to building a health system that serves all New Zelanders.

We are looking for an enthusiastic registered physiotherapist to join our experienced orthopaedic team at Counties Manukau District. Do you have experience in Acute Orthopaedic Physiotherapy, implementing evidence-based practice, management of patients with higher clinical complexity, service development, supporting & developing staff, providing clinical expertise within the acute orthopaedic service and to other disciplines? The ability to lead and foster a learning culture and contribute to training needs analysis for the team / service is essential.

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your clinical skills whilst developing skills in leadership / management and research. Your clinical caseload will be varied ranging from working in the Emergency Department, (which is one of the busiest EDs in NZ), with acute admissions to the emergency department to working on the acute orthopaedic wards with pre / post-operative elective surgery and acute trauma including SCI. Counties Manukau is the Northern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Centre which includes a 4 bedded SCI Unit on the acute orthopaedic ward. The team is based over two sites : Middlemore Hospital and Manukau Surgery Centre. If successful, you will be required to contribute to the supervision, training and development of rotational staff, physiotherapy students and rehabilitation assistants. The role also includes weekend work.

Support is offered through the Section Head, Allied Health Professional Lead for Physiotherapy and other senior physiotherapists (5) within the team. Our team, department and multi-disciplinary team have well established in-service programmes which help promote continuous and collaborative learning.

We are seeking someone who :

• Is a great team player
• Will be able to work in a culturally diverse environment
• Will work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team
• Has great communication, organisational and supervisory skills
• NZ Registration with a current Annual Practicing Certificate
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience, with at least 8 months acute orthopaedic experience
• Clinical supervision / preceptoring of rotational staff, students and physiotherapy assistants
• Professional Supervision skills of junior staff
• Experience working with acute Spinal cord Injury patients
• Experience working in the Emergency department.
• Experience of audit and research
• Conducted audit and research
• Annual practicing certificate is refunded
• Support with Immigration / Visa
• Discounted services as part of our work perks

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of New Zealand. We embrace a workforce that is diverse and inclusive so that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

How to apply

To apply please click 'apply now'. All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by 09 December 2025. To apply please click apply now. To view the job description, click here.

For more information, please contact Amy on

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advert.

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind Manaakitanga, Together Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.

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