Physiotherapist – Community Aged Care (Casual)
Santa Clara Home Care · Greater Sydney · In-home, community-based
Role
Casual physiotherapist, mobile in-home role across Greater Sydney
Pay
$68–$82 per hour, inclusive of the 25% casual loading, plus 12% superannuation. Paid travel time between clients, per-kilometre vehicle costs covered, and paid documentation time. See “Pay and conditions” below for the detail.
Hours
Casual — you choose the days you make available. Hours vary week to week.
About us
Santa Clara Home Care is a registered Support at Home provider helping older Australians stay safe, independent and well in their own homes. We deliver in-home care, care management, restorative support and allied health across Greater Sydney. Our approach is relationship-based, clinically grounded, and built around dignity, choice, safety and quality of life.
The role
We’re building our in-house allied health offering and want a physiotherapist to help shape it. Most of your time is hands-on, one-on-one physiotherapy with older people in their homes, the kind of work where you actually see your clients progress because you follow them over time.
Because you already know these clients and their goals, the role also includes a clinically-qualified care partner component under Support at Home: the mobility, falls-risk and functional reviews and care-plan input that flow naturally from your clinical work.
The role suits a physiotherapist who likes working autonomously, building real relationships, and seeing the whole picture of someone’s independence rather than a single appointment.
What you’ll do
Physiotherapy
- In-home assessment and treatment for mobility, balance, pain, falls risk, strength and function.
- Individualised treatment and exercise programs supporting strength, balance, gait, transfers and independence.
- Education for clients, families, carers and support workers on safe mobility and exercise.
- Progress monitoring, with timely clinical notes after each visit.
Clinically-qualified care partner
- Mobility, falls-risk, functional and restorative-goal reviews tied to the client’s care plan.
- Care-plan input and review with the Care Manager, client and their family or registered supporter.
- Identifying changing needs or risks and escalating them appropriately.
- Wellness- and reablement-focused discussions, and clear care notes.
Physiotherapy is clinical care, delivered under the participant’s separately-funded clinical-care stream. Care-management activity is funded from the capped 10% care-management allocation in each participant’s quarterly budget. The two are documented separately and the same time is never claimed against both.
What you’ll bring
Essential
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Physiotherapy.
- Current AHPRA registration as a physiotherapist.
- Current professional indemnity insurance covering your full scope of practice.
- A police certificate issued within the last 3 years (no precluding offences) or a current NDIS Worker Screening clearance or the ability to obtain one before you start.
- Current driver licence and a reliable, comprehensively insured car.
- A smartphone or tablet for mobile documentation.
- Confident independent practice, and a genuine commitment to dignity, choice, privacy and safe care.
Highly regarded
- Experience with older people in community, home-based, aged care, rehab or restorative settings.
- Falls prevention, mobility review, reablement, post-hospital or chronic-condition experience.
- Familiarity with Support at Home, Home Care Packages or community aged care.
- Confident communication with families, care managers, nurses, support workers and allied health colleagues.
Why you might like working here
- Real clinical autonomy, with a care team behind you. You won’t be working in isolation.
- Competitive hourly rates that are always at or above the relevant award minimum for your classification, including annual increases.
- Paid travel time between clients, and per-kilometre vehicle costs covered.
- Flexible casual work. You tell us the days you’re available.
- A genuine say in how our allied health model takes shape.
- Meaningful, ongoing relationships with older people in your community.
- Employee referral program.
Pay and conditions
$68–$82 per hour for ordinary hours, Monday to Friday within the daytime span, inclusive of the 25% casual loading, plus superannuation at the statutory rate (currently 12%). Your classification and pay point are set in writing under the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 (MA000027), Health Professional stream, based on your qualifications, experience and actual duties. Your pay will never be less than the applicable award minimum for your classification, including annual award increases.
Your contract and payslips separately identify the base hourly rate and the 25% casual loading. Weekend, public-holiday, shiftwork and overtime hours are paid at the applicable award penalty or overtime rates and are not absorbed into the ordinary-hours range. Casual engagements have a minimum 3-hour payment period unless a greater entitlement applies.
Travel between clients within an engagement is paid as time worked, and authorised use of your own vehicle is reimbursed at no less than the award motor vehicle allowance (currently about $0.99 per kilometre). Paid time also includes documentation, required meetings, training, supervision and care-plan input.
How to apply
Send your resume and a short cover letter telling us about your physiotherapy experience, any community or aged care work, and why this kind of role appeals to you.
Santa Clara Home Care is an equal-opportunity employer.
We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and are committed to culturally safe care.
Pay: $68.00 – $82.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Referral program
- Travel reimbursement
Education:
- Bachelor Degree (Required)
Experience:
- Physiotherapy: 1 year (Preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driver Licence (Required)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: On the road
