Job outlook for physios (esp. Australia)

Hi there,

I was just wondering: What do you think, what´s the future outlook regarding a career in physio?

The reason why I am asking is because I am facing a decision whether to "upgrade" my career (e.g. do a Master´s degree in health economics) or stay in the classical field of physiotherapy. A little bit of background:
I was trained in Europe (Germany + Netherlands) but have worked about 4 years in NZ and Australia after passing the registration exams. I recently came back to Germany, mainly for family reasons - but who knows, maybe I´ll return to Australia in a couple of years. I found that the job situation - both in NZ and in Australia - was quite different when I first went there (in 2007/8) compared to now: There were plenty of jobs, both in hospitals and private practice, and it was relatively easy - even as a foreign trained physio - to find a good job. I´ve worked both in private practice and hospitals - but I have to admit, the hospital jobs were locum jobs as permanent jobs were quite hard to get.
Over the recent years, I´ve noticed that more and more NZ trained physios came over to Australia due to the lack of available jobs in NZ and better salary in Australia. Also, at least in Queensland, there are a lot more new graduates on the market - only very few of these are lucky to get a job with Queensland Health. Some of them are required to work in aged care for a while as they can´t find any other jobs. (not saying that this is a bad choice but I doubt that this is a preferred area)
I found it very frustrating to "monkey-bar" from one locum job to the next - and with all the budget cuts, not just in Queensland, the chance to get a permanent job in the public service is probably quite low.

However, I don´t have any up-to-date insight in what the situation is like in the private sector. What is your impression?
I am mainly talking about Australia - but I think, this is a common situation in many countries (only few jobs in hospitals, more jobs in private practice).
What do you think, is physiotherapy still a profession in demand or are physios going into oversupply (except in rural areas or aged care)?

I´d be interested to hear your thoughts on this!

Melanie

Hey Physiogirl I sent you a private message hoping for some advice :-D

It's completely the opposite now, well in New Zealand anyway. We just can't get enough staff, we are paying really well and offer great facilities, ongoing training etc etc but there just aren't the physios around.

:) In Timaru maybe, but in Auckland the pay still isn't that great and there's not that many jobs.

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Originally Posted by Fyzzio

:) In Timaru maybe, but in Auckland the pay still isn't that great and there's not that many jobs.

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Yeah I'm sure Timaru the pay vs living costs is substanially higher. But there are still currently 14 jobs in Auckland on trademe alone Job search results - Find NZ jobs on Trade Me Jobs some paying $100k

hm.
I just checked. 8 jobs today, one of them $100+, the others $50 - $60.000.
For a city with 1.4 million people not a lot of jobs for Physios.

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Originally Posted by Fyzzio

hm.
I just checked. 8 jobs today, one of them $100+, the others $50 - $60.000.
For a city with 1.4 million people not a lot of jobs for Physios.

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Have another look. Job search results - Find NZ jobs on Trade Me Jobs

I did :)
13 jobs: 11x Physio, 1x insurance case manager, 1x Physio Assistant

Of the 11 Physio jobs: 9 in New Zealand, 2 in Australia

Of the 9 jobs in NZ: Geneva has 3 ads for the same job at IRIS = 7 jobs

Of the 7 different Physiotherapy positions in NZ (one less than yesterday) is only one advertising a salary of $100.000.

Unless you move to Aus, you wouldn't know the job scenario ... :)

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Hi there,

The company I work for has a job board and we have just released two Physiotherapy positions this week in Melbourne so I think there is still work out there just depends if its what you want to do.

Link to job board below;
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Agree with you, the condition in Indonesia is almost same as in Australia, the only difference at salary. if we work in a hospital or clinic, we get a salary of about $ 200 $ 300, but some of the physiotherapist besides working in a hospital or clinic, we provide patient care visits or open their own clinic.

Many Indonesians began interested to be a physiotherapist, seen from several educational institutions began to be established here. Maybe at the next few years will be a lot of physiotherapists appear, my expectations with more and more physio Indonesia more patient conditions that require physiotherapy services.