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. 

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

Our working hours are: Monday to Friday 7:30am-4:30pm.

Category: Physiotherapy

Programm Areas: Rehabilitation Department: Pediatric Physiotherapy & Early Intervention

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

Salary: Junior position 19,255 ETB basic salary. Our benefits are amongst others: PF 14%, 23 days annual leave, health insurance, transport, continuous further training in pediatric physio and early intervention

Job Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Physiotherapy – this time, we do not recruit graduates, only applicants with at least one year's work experience. You must be able to speak, write and understand English perfectly, as our training language is English at high level.

Application Documents:

• We expect complete application documents which must include a revealing letter of motivation which shows you know who we are, what we do and why you want to work for us, a CV in tabular form with a current photo, copies of certificates and recommendations.

Required Attitude:

• You must be a learner at heart. We are only interested in sincere applicants who have more questions than answers, are open to criticism and are truly passionate about working with children with disabilities and want to grow into an expert in the field. Applicants must be willing to commit for a minimum of 2 years.

Required experience:

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

How to Apply

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

Subject: Physiotherapy Application 2024 (please add your name)