Exercise Physiologist

Proactive Health is a national ecosystem of over 40 allied health businesses across 350+ locations in Australia. We unite independent clinic owners under a shared commitment to clinical excellence — providing the governance, development infrastructure, and operational support of a large network while preserving the personalised, community-driven care that smaller practices do best.

Our clinics operate as genuine multidisciplinary teams. Exercise physiologists work alongside physiotherapists, podiatrists, occupational therapists, dietitians, and social workers — not just sharing a building, but actively coordinating care and learning from each other every day.

We service clients across DVA, Medicare (EPC), NDIS, Home Care Packages, private health, and workers' compensation — giving our EPs one of the most diverse and clinically rich caseloads in the profession.

About This Clinic — Box Hill

The Box Hill clinic is based inside a Goodlife Health & Fitness club — a large, modern facility with outstanding equipment and a genuinely great environment to deliver exercise physiology in. You have a full gym at your fingertips, which means the tools to program properly and the space to run everything from one-on-one rehab to functional strength work.

This is an established practice with a loyal, engaged patient base and a strong reputation for personalised, considered care. You will step into an existing caseload with relationships and referral pathways already in place — this is a handover, not a cold start.

There is also genuine room to grow. The foundations are set, and the right EP will have the autonomy to build on them — broadening the caseload, developing new referral relationships, and shaping the service around where they want to take their clinical career. Box Hill is a role for someone who wants a stable base and the freedom to grow it.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

Exercise physiology is a profession with enormous scope — but too many roles narrow it down to one funding stream, one patient demographic, and one way of working. This role is different.

From day one you inherit an established caseload, so you are treating and building from your first week rather than waiting for a book to fill. You will design and deliver individualised programs for people managing chronic conditions, recovering from surgery, building functional capacity after injury, navigating the NDIS, or simply working to stay mobile and independent as they age. Your clinical reasoning will be tested and developed — not dulled by repetition.

DVA is a significant and deeply rewarding part of the work here. You will support veterans across a wide range of presentations — from chronic musculoskeletal pain and cardiovascular conditions to deconditioning and complex multi-morbidity. These are patients who deserve thorough, considered care, and DVA's no-gap funding model means you have the time and resources to deliver it properly. Alongside that established veteran base, there is real appetite to broaden into NDIS, Medicare, sports-focused and younger client work — so a self-starter has a clear runway to diversify the caseload and make the region their own.

What Your Week Actually Looks Like

No two weeks are identical, and that is the point. A typical day might open with an initial assessment for a DVA client managing chronic musculoskeletal pain, move into individual sessions making full use of the Goodlife gym floor, and include a home visit for a Home Care Package client working on functional mobility. You will run one-on-one and small group work, collaborate with physiotherapists and dietitians across the network on shared clients, and spend time out in the community building the referral relationships that grow the book.

You manage your own schedule with genuine autonomy over routing, timing, and patient flow. The variety keeps your skills broad, your weeks engaging, and your clinical growth constant.

Day to Day, You’ll Be

• Conducting thorough initial assessments including functional testing, health screening, and exercise capacity evaluation.
• Designing and delivering individualised, evidence-based exercise programs across clinic, gym, home, and community settings.
• Taking on and managing an established caseload spanning DVA, Medicare (EPC), NDIS, Home Care Packages, and private clients.
• Running individual and small group exercise sessions tailored to each participant's clinical needs.
• Getting out into the community — building GP, aged care and NDIS referral relationships to grow and diversify the Box Hill caseload.
• Collaborating with physiotherapists, podiatrists, OTs, dietitians, and GPs as part of genuine multidisciplinary care.
• Monitoring progress, adjusting programs, and supporting patients toward meaningful functional and health outcomes.
• Maintaining high-quality clinical documentation in line with ESSA standards and Proactive Health's governance framework.
• Educating clients on self-management strategies, lifestyle modification, and injury prevention.
• ESSA accreditation as an Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP).
• A recognised tertiary qualification in Exercise Physiology or Clinical Exercise Physiology.
• Some clinical experience behind you — this role suits a confident, capable EP ready to manage their own caseload, not a first-week graduate.
• A genuine self-starter — strong initiative, comfortable driving your own schedule, and confident taking on an established workload and making it your own.
• Confidence getting out into the community to build referral relationships and grow the caseload over time.
• Current professional indemnity and public liability insurance (or willingness to obtain).
• A valid Australian driver's licence and access to a reliable vehicle.
• Current or willingness to obtain a National Police Check and relevant state-based screening (e.g. NDIS Worker Screening, Working with Children Check where applicable).
• Strong clinical reasoning, assessment, and program design skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills — you'll be coordinating with a wide network of practitioners and referrers.

Highly regarded but not essential

• Experience with DVA clients or understanding of DVA funding and compliance requirements.
• Experience across multiple funding streams (NDIS, Medicare, Home Care, Workers' Comp).
• Experience building or diversifying a caseload within an established site.
• Interest in chronic disease management, pain science, functional rehabilitation, or aged care.
• Experience with group exercise programming.
• Prior experience in private practice or community health.
• An established caseload from day one — you build and treat immediately rather than waiting for a book to fill.
• A superbly equipped base inside a Goodlife Health & Fitness club — a full gym floor to program and deliver in.
• A salary that reflects your value — $80,000 + Super, discussed openly at interview based on experience.
• Genuine autonomy — manage your own schedule and shape the service, with the freedom to grow and diversify the caseload.
• Dedicated mentorship — hands-on investment from your clinic owner and experienced clinicians who want you to succeed.
• The Proactive Health Academy — structured CPD, professional development, and clinical education.
• Clear career pathways — senior clinician, team lead, clinic management, or clinic ownership. Your progression, your pace.
• Staff rewards and wellbeing support — retail discounts, wellbeing centre access, and a team that checks in on each other.
• The independence of private practice with the infrastructure and support of a national network across 350+ locations.

What You’ll Get From Us — Beyond the Salary

• A caseload ready to go — you inherit an established book with relationships and referral pathways already in place, plus the autonomy to grow it your way.
• Dedicated mentorship — hands-on support from your clinic owner and experienced clinicians across the national network, with genuine investment in getting you set up and thriving.
• The Proactive Health Academy — professional development partnerships that keep your skills current and your ESSA CPD obligations covered.
• Graduate and Leadership Programs — structured pathways whether you are early-career or ready to step toward leadership. Our graduate program is one of the most comprehensive in the sector.
• Clinical governance that has your back — quality assurance, supervision, peer review, and clinical frameworks that let you practise with confidence.
• The Hot Tub rewards program — discounts with The Iconic, JB Hi-Fi, Uber, Kmart, and more, plus access to our wellbeing centre.
• Real career progression — from clinician to senior EP, to team lead, to clinic management, to ownership. The path exists and people are walking it.

Apply Now

If you're an EP who wants an established caseload, a first-rate facility, genuine autonomy, and the freedom to grow a service on your own terms — this is worth a conversation. We're building something in Box Hill, and we want the right person, not just the fastest applicant.

Apply now, or contact Stuart Smith, Head of Talent, at [email hidden] or 0481 179 106 for a confidential chat.

Proactive Health is committed to fostering a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued, respected and given genuine opportunity. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability, and people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.

We also believe recruitment should remain personal. At Proactive Health, applications are reviewed by real people, not filtered or rejected by artificial intelligence screening tools. Every application is individually considered by a member of our team because we recognise that experience, potential, personality and passion cannot always be measured by automated systems. We are proud to offer a recruitment process that remains human centred, thoughtful and fair.