Care Forward is an innovative, leading provider of home care services. We are a locally owned Tasmanian community service provider with a focus on reablement, health and wellbeing. Our core business consists of the coordination and delivery of home support servicesand community care across Tasmania.

About You

You are an enthusiastic and dedicated Health Professional with a real passion for improving lives. With the ability to work autonomously you will thrive in this multidisciplinary environment. You are adaptable, enjoy meeting new people and working in a variety ofsettings.

Job tasks and responsibilities

- Assess suitability, capacity and function to inform interventions using a wellness and reablement approach to prescribe, deliver, adapt, and evaluate exercise-based interventions that enhance and maintain function and quality of life.
- Develop goal-oriented care plans and individualised interventions, in partnership with the consumer to facilitate recovery or rehabilitation.
- Contribute to a multidisciplinary team approach to deliver holistic programs.
- Deliver individual and group services in a variety of environments including home, community and clinic onsite.
- Liaise with clients, referral agencies, medical teams, service providers, family/advocate to ensure best possible outcomes.
- Provide health education and advice to empower people to improve health outcomes and self-manage health conditions.
- Coach and motivate to increase engagement in exercise, including addressing client preferences, needs, barriers, and goals.
- Apply a person-centred approach to people of diverse backgrounds and populations and work collaboratively with clients and relevant others involved in their support.




- Practice in a culturally safe and inclusive manner according to the principles of person-centred care and apply appropriate in-person and digital practices such as telehealth.
- Current registration with ESSA as an accredited Exercise Physiologist
- Current motor vehicle driver's licence
- Two (2) professional referee checks - worked with candidate recently
- National Police Certificate obtained within the last three (3) months
- Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills enabling effective interaction with consumers and their families, team members, external health professionals and key stakeholders.
- Comprehensive understanding of community-based service provision.
- Demonstrated computer literacy with experience in word processing, calendar management software (Outlook) and data base applications.
- An understanding of risk management principles, workplace health and safety and continuous quality improvement processes and their application in the workplace.
- Desirablepostgraduate experience in providing evidence based clinical assessment and planning appropriate interventions for consumers with chronic and/or complex conditions, with a focus on consumer reablement and independence using a wellness/restorative approach to service provision.
- The ability to work autonomously and as a member of a multidisciplinary team.

What We Offer

- Salary Sacrificing Opportunities
- Join a fun and energetic work setting with a great consumer base
- Well supported professional development access
- Flexible work arrangements supporting work/life balance
- Dynamic team environment
- Winner 2018 Tasmanian Community Achievement Awards - Employer of Excellencein Aged Care
- Finalist 2019 Employer of Choice Awards (highly commended)

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📌 Exercise Physiologist (George Town)
🏢 Care Forward
📍 George Town