Podiatrist

• 0.8 FTE Fixed Term opportunity to 1st May 2025 + Salary under Allied Health Professional Award plus 11% super + Salary packaging benefits
• Deer Park and Sunshine location + Flexible hybrid working model
• Build your clinical skills differently through our Innovation Framework and creative thinking principles!

We are One Team IPC Health, we are passionate, creative and we make a difference.

We are leaders and changemakers in community health; a team of innovative and passionate health and wellbeing professionals, delivering holistic services through personalised care and empowerment. We support healthy and empowered communities through innovative prevention and care.

The Opportunity

This opportunity is a 0.8 FTE Fixed Term position to 1st May 2025. The role is classified an Allied Health Professional Award Grade 2 offering $45.41- $52.22 pa commensurate with skills and experience plus 11% super under the Allied Health Professionals Victorian Community Health Sector Multi-Employer Agreement 2022-2026.

Broaden your clinical experience as a Podiatrist within the community health sector where you will be well supported by a dynamic team, as well as a Senior Clinician. You will apply your learnings and clinical knowledge in this excellent growth opportunity to provide high quality podiatry care. In addition to embedding a continuous improvement and wholistic care approach, you will provide services focussing on care management and intervention at both the individual and community level.

This is a diverse clinical role where you will gain exposure to providing health education, therapeutic management and health promotion within a direct service model. This opportunity will enable you to further build your clinical and professional capacity through –

• Regular supervision including our newly developed supervision framework for Grade 1 clinicians, in-house continuing education and opportunities to attend seminars, workshops, and conferences.
• Becoming part of a strong and connected team. We are a group that supports and looks out for one another because we are committed to our people and vision.
• Sharing your valuable insights as a key advisor in how we can deliver better client care experiences.

You will make a difference by

• Improving the health and wellbeing outcomes of the local community through quality and best practice podiatry care, management and intervention.
• Proactively identifying opportunities to grow and improve the clinical service aligned to strategic and operational objectives.
• Promoting collaboration across internal and external partners to improve service enhancement and learnings.

To succeed, you will need

• Bachelor of Applied Science (Podiatry) or equivalent and current AHPRA registration.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a Podiatrist with demonstrated clinical knowledge and skills in high risk foot conditions and wound management.
• Demonstrated ability to work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) with effective engagement skills.
• High level communication (verbal and written), negotiation, organisational and time management skills.
• Well-developed technical skills with the ability to adapt to client management systems.
• Current and valid Victorian driver’s licence and Working with Children’s Check.

Why work with us

• Access to options to flex your work and life commitments through our Flexing with IPC Health program.
• Generous salary packaging and paid parental leave benefits
• Award winning supportive organisation that values growth through our professional development and innovation framework.
• Be well supported through our Grade 1 clinical supervision framework.
• Access to Accrued Days Off to enjoy long weekends and greater work life balance.
• Free onsite car parking.

What next?

Read the relevant program success profile for Allied Health Professional at the following link: IPC Health Careers.

To find out more about the role, please contact Jason Poon, Acting Senior Allied Health Manager on [email protected] using the subject line: Podiatrist enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Submit your resume, cover letter and a document addressing the ‘to succeed’ criteria found on the success profile.

Our Story

We are One Team IPC Health. We are passionate we go above and beyond, demonstrating understanding and respect for our communities and each other. We make a difference we act with purpose, measure our results and celebrate our achievements. We are creative we learn, experiment and innovate.

At IPC Health, we are visionaries for community health and wellbeing. We are changemakers. Innovation in action is at the heart of everything we do, because we know that innovation can create amazing change and have an incredible and far reaching impact for individuals, our communities, and for our industry. We prioritise those who face obstacles to getting health services tailored to their needs and work with and for them in a deeply connected way. This enables us to acutely understand their needs and challenges. We live and breathe our passion to create new and better ways to deliver holistic health services for our vastly different and diverse clients and communities – so that they can thrive and experience greater health and wellbeing both individually and together.

We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free environment for all and welcome individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and the LGBTI communities to apply for our job opportunities.

If you require a reasonable workplace adjustment to support you during the interview process please email [email protected] with your request. Reasonable workplace adjustments are changes that are necessary and achievable to enable a person to efficiently perform their role to the best of their abilities. A reasonable workplace adjustment can be requested at any time in the recruitment process or as a part of employment with IPC Health.

Success Profile.