Physiotherapist

Location: Hutt Hospital

Contract: Fixed Term (until August 2025), Part Time (0.5 FTE / 20 hours per week)

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. 

About the Role 

This is an opportunity to work with a dynamic multi-disciplinary Hutt based team within the wider Wellington Regional Pain Service to assess and support people with chronic / persistent pain.  You will be part of an MDT assessment and group based therapeutic sessions as well as seeing patients one-on one.   You will promote self-management based strategies to a wide spectrum of pain conditions, as well as providing ACC funded community pain services. 

This role is fixed term due to an impending structural changes of the organisation to be confirmed and implemented in the next 2-3 months.  The advertised hours are secure and will be required long-term, but some of the conditions may change in the course of the re-structure. 

About the Team/Service/Location 

The Pain Management Service is a multi-disciplinary team for people with persistent pain. It accepts referrals for people whose pain is causing, or creating the risk of developing, significant pain-related disability and preventing them from undertaking their usual activities, including work. 

The Pain Management team takes a strong Allied Health led Inter-disciplinary approach to providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with persistent pain. Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists provide pain management interventions within group and individual settings and take on the key worker roles for ACC with the support of the wider team. 

About you 

A physiotherapist (fourth year of practice onwards) provides safe and clinically effective patient/client assessment and intervention, within the clinical area of pain management. 

The Physiotherapist in this role guides physical conditioning and restoration of physical function in the presence of persistent pain.  The physiotherapist helps patients transition from pain as symptom to being the disease and helps increase confidence in the integrity of the body by bridging theory and practice – education and movement - together.   

• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• 3 years post-graduate experience 
• Interest in supporting self-management
• Flexibility – to be able to adapt to ongoing changes of the health system 
• A good team player but also able to work autonomously and comfortable with self-directed learning

Working at 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. 

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. We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community. 

How to Apply 

To apply please click “apply now.” All applications must be submitted through our online careers’ portal by 11 May. If you have any questions about the role, please contact Philip Adamson at Philip.Adamson@tewhatuora.govt.nz 

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