• Waikato
  • Full time
  • Healthcare
  • Posted 9 days ago

Job Description

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

Where you’ll be working: Thames Hospital

The details: Permanent Full time – 80 hours per fortnight


Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we’re building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.


Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity

Are you looking for a role where your passion for patient centred care can make a positive difference to patients? An opportunity has arisen to join our Thames based physiotherapy team who cover inpatients, outpatients, and community. The position is ideal for a physiotherapist who is keen to advance their career with the support and enthusiasm of a close knit team. The role requires the successful application to be adaptive to change, resourceful and flexible to service needs, and to have a genuine passion for working with patients and their whanau on their health journey.

If you would you relish the challenge to work within a smaller, rural physiotherapy team covering a wide variety of physiotherapy specialties across an inpatient, outpatient and community setting we would love to hear from you


Click here to view the position description.

(Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Te Whatu Ora, Waikato website.)


Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service

The Physiotherapy service has approximately 90 staff including Physiotherapists, assistants and administrators that work across the large geographical area that is Te Whatu Ora, Waikato. We have staff based at Waikato Hospital, our secondary hospital in Thames and our 3 rural hospitals in Tokoroa, Te Kuiti and Taumaranui and across our many community bases in areas such as Morrinsville, Matamata, Cambridge, and Ngaruawahia. 

Our vision is to provide quality physiotherapy care to promote, encourage and enable health, wellbeing and independence for the patients and Whanau in the communities we serve. Our mission is to ensure that patients receive excellence of care, that our staff are supported and trained to work and maintain levels of evidence based practice and that our service is equitable, efficient and effective in order to meet the needs of our patients and their Whanau. We pride ourselves on being a friendly, supportive team who are keen to grow and develop our staff.


Mōu | About you

Skills and experience you’ll need to be considered for the role:

  • NZ physiotherapy registration, and a current annual practising certificate.
  • Current valid full New Zealand drivers licence.
  • You will have a passion for learning, be adaptable to change, and be eager to gain clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas.
  • The ability to work autonomously and collaboratively as part of the physiotherapy and wider multi-disciplinary team across a variety of environments.
  • Excellent communication skills in order to effectively liaise with patients, their whanau, and other health care professionals.


Working for Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is ‘the weaving of wellness’. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Equity Work Programme at Health NZ focuses on helping everyone in the health system think about equity when they do their work. It also promotes the cultural change needed for the whole system to reach equity in health outcomes.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations.

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

  • We want to see the real you in your application and welcome the real you on board if you come and work with us. Skills are gained across many areas of our life, not just in formal employment. If you can demonstrate the skills listed in the ad, but the experience was gained through whānau life, community or mahi aroha (volunteering) we encourage you to apply and share your story with us in your cover letter.
  • We particularly welcome applications from our diverse Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow communities.


How to Apply

To apply for the role please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers portal before 11:59pm on 24 November 2024. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Elisa Travailleur at elisa.travailleur@TeWhatuOra.govt.nz.