Organization:

Addis Guzo (Swiss NGO) provides mobility aids, skills development training and comprehensive rehabilitation programmes to people with disabilities. We offer our employees a unique workplace with innovative working methods, high professionalism and continuous training. We invest a lot in our employees and expect real commitment, intrinsic motivation and high work performance.

Job Description:

We are looking for a junior physiotherapist who would like to specialize in pediatric physiotherapy with a focus on children with special needs. Our holistic, interdisciplinary and family-centered approach includes pediatric physiotherapy, adaptive play, functional communication, sensory integration therapy, elements of occupational therapy, home visits and parent coaching. We offer a full-time position in a team of four other physiotherapists, a therapeutic assistant, a special needs specialist and an early intervention specialist. Our working hours are: Monday to Friday 7:30am-4:30pm.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Professional baseline assessment and definition of comprehensive therapy goals and objectives, development of therapy plans and group training, implementation of individual and group therapies, evaluation and adjustment of therapy using Response to Intervention (RTI) in daily written documentation, writing of discharge and/or summary reports, ensuring complete documentation, coaching of parents and caregivers, collaboration in a multidisciplinary team with our mobility assistance workshop, supporting physicians, organizations and experts from abroad, ongoing training and practice

Programm Areas: Rehabilitation Department: Pediatric Physiotherapy & Early Intervention

Employment Period: 3-year contract with the possibility of extension 

Salary: Junior position 19255 Etb basic salary. Our benefits are amongst others: PF 14%, 23 days annual leave, health insurance, transport, further training

Job Category: Physiotherapy

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• BA in Physiotherapy only applicants with one year work experience will be considered

• You must be fluent in English (spoken, written and comprehension) as our training and language of communication is English at a high level.

Required Attitude:

• Your main attitude and interest should be to adopt new treatment approaches and wish to pioneer together with us. You should have a high level of loyalty to the cause, which includes integrity of character, honesty, reflectiveness, reliability and a strong commitment to our beneficiaries. Applicants must be willing to commit for at least 2 years. 

Required experience:

• 1 year work experience, personal or professional experience with people with disabilities is a plus

Application Documents:

• We will only consider complete application documents, which must include a letter of motivation explaining why you would like to work for us, a CV in tabular form with a photo, copies of certificates and recommendations.

How to Apply

•  Interested applicants should send a digital application to: martina.oberli@addisguzo.com

• Keyword: Physiotherapy Application

• Application deadline: January 12, 2024