Core Clinician Orthopaedic Physiotherapist, Acute Allied Health

## Mo tenei turanga mahi | About this role

• 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 Zealanders.
• The opportunity :
• We are looking for an enthusiastic NZ registered physiotherapist to join our experienced orthopaedic team.

The team is based over two sites : Middlemore Hospital and Manukau Surgery Centre.

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your clinical skills whilst developing skills in leadership / management.Your clinical caseload will be varied ranging from working on the acute orthopaedic wards with pre / post-operative elective surgery and acute trauma including Spinal cord injuries to working in the Emergency Department, (which is one of the busiest EDs in NZ).

Counties district is the Northern Regional Spinal Cord Injury Centre which includes a 4 bedded SCI Unit on the acute orthopaedic ward.

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 and on-call duties.Support is offered by the Section Head of orthopaedics, Allied Health Physiotherapy Professional Leader and other experienced physiotherapists (5) within the team.

Our team, department and multidisciplinary team have well established in-service programmes which help promote continuous and collaborative learning.

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 Maori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.

All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal by 10th October 2025.

To review the position description, For more information, please contact Amy Lin on

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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