Concord Hospital

David Roberts

HOD Physiotherapy

Ph 97676702

Email: David.roberts1@health.nsw.gov.au

1.      Demonstrated organisational and time management skills, and the ability to apply these to work prioritisation in an acute care hospital based clinical setting.

2.      Demonstrated commitment to professional development

3.      Demonstrated experiences in working as a member of a multidisciplinary team

4.      Demonstrates a thorough understanding and management of clinical deterioration

Orthopaedics

Acute care wards with ICU experience

Musculoskeletal Outpatients

Acute Aged Care

Rehabilitation unit

8.00 am - 4.30 pm Monday - Friday

The eekend service is covered by permanent weekend phsiothepists in both acute wards / ICU and orthopeadics.  Graduates will participate in the general weekend oncall roster (along with all level 1 / 2 staff). This is predeominatley to porvide occasional cover of permanent weekend staff leave.

No set evening shift.

FYG will participate in the 24 hour on call service on a rostered basis. This involves being on call from 16.30 pm to 8.00 am for urgent deterioriating patients.

Nil

Concord has some onsite paid parking, with street parking approximatley 10 minute walk from the hospital. 

Rhodes station is a 10 minute walk fro the hosptial and there are regular buses stopping at the hospital, running between Ryde and Strathfield / Burwod.

All staff members participate in the Hospitals orientation process including online orientation and face to face sessions.

A comprehensive Physiotherapy specific orientation programme occurs in the first week of duty, including area specific tutorials, practical sessions and an ICU SIM session.

All new graduates then undergo a thorough and individualised orientation into ICU as part of their acute care rotation

Weekly rotation based inservices

Weekly teaching with seniors

weekly 5 x 5 clinical reasoning sessions led by level 1 / 2 staff

Fortnightly departmental education sessions

SLHD wide first year graduate programme conducted by the district centre for education and development.

Staff Gym available onsite

Area Leisure and Fitness Club

Active social committee

All graduates have structured supervision with seniors throughout rotations.

All graduates will have a non clinical mentor with monthly supervision conducted by a staff member that does not directly supervise them.

All staff in SLHD have access to the confidential EAP prgramme.

SLHD runs a staff wellbeing programme with regular medication sessions and staff wellbeing activities on a regular basis.

Short periods of annual leave can be negotitated on an individual basis as per the SLHD leave matters policy