Congratulations.

This is an exciting and formative time in your professional life and the decisions you make now about your career will affect you for many years to come.

Finding the right fit between employer and employee is not a one-way street.

The results can be costly.

Some of these costs can be for damages awarded to the individual(s) involved, but other expenses can quickly add up.

Ahpra and the National Boards—including the Physiotherapy Board of Australia—work in partnership to ensure that the community has access to a safe health workforce across all professions registered under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme.

How they do this includes:

Physiotherapists, like all health professionals, use language to communicate what skills we possess and what we can offer potential patients.

We do this in different ways depending on who we are communicating with at any given time.

The new plan will be in place for the next three years and reflects our current priorities and future-focused initiatives.

Devising a strategic plan takes considerable time, effort and consultation, as it is imperative that we get it right.

It becomes a road map for our operational team and underpins our budgeting decisions.

Tell us a little about yourself as a physiotherapist and researcher.

I graduated from the University of Sydney and worked mainly in acute inpatient areas such as intensive care and spinal cord injuries in my early career.

How large was your survey and what was the response rate?

We invited clinical education managers from all 21 universities in Australia that had graduating entry-level physiotherapy students in 2017 to participate.

Personal/carer’s leave, more commonly known as ‘sick leave’, is a paid leave entitlement that all permanent employees will receive, allowing them to take time off for personal illness or injury and caring for family or household members.

However, there is often confusion about when an employee is entitled to personal/carer’s leave.

A standard definition of mentoring is a mutually beneficial relationship that involves a more experienced person helping a less experienced person to achieve their goals.

Each year a relatively small number of registered health practitioners are required to undertake supervised practice to reassure the community and the regulator that they are safe and competent to practise in their profession.