Join Our Team
Be part of the team
We are a small, close-knit team at The Joint Physiotherapy and we are always open to growing and enhancing our team.
If you or someone you know might be interested in becoming a valued physio or receptionist at The Joint, please reach out.
We’d also love to expand the expertise we offer and hire some other Allied Health. Keen to take the leap?
Current positions
- PHYSIO
- Looking for a new recruit to our physio crew. A few years experience preferred, but for us, someone with personality and willingness to learn is a perfect fit.
- OSTEO OR EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST
- Keen to expand what we offer and welcome in some alternate expertise to compliment what we already offer.
- MYOTHERAPIST OR MASSAGE THERAPIST
- We’ve had some great massage therapists and myos over the years. We certainly have the clientele keen for hands on treatment and would love for someone to fill this whole for us.
Core Values
Educate Empower & Achieve
Lead, don't follow!
Be Better
Treat the patient not their condition
Our point of difference
- Open plan collaborative workspace
- Flexible timetable: weekly AM & PM shift off, early Friday finish, alternating weekend shifts
- CPD: DMA Clinical Pilates, GLA:D, Sports Level 1 & 2, Dry needling, observing in theatre with top orthopods
- 2 x 1:1 weekly mentor sessions in addition to team PD sessions
- A proper Coffee Machine (we teach you how to be a Barrista)
- Titled Sports Physiotherapist with International experience
- Local & National Sports Team Affiliations
- FUN!
Our Team's Career Pathways...
Tamar Simai
Adam Joffe
Bernie Simai
Katsu Inoue
Throughout my undergrad at Monash, I worked at The Joint as a casual receptionist, which gave me the opportunity to do a few shadow shifts with Adam & Bernie.
In 4th year, I was strongly considering accepting a job at Royal Melbourne but….. the fun, community focussed, collaborative, open work space that The Joint provides won me over (and potentially a little sway from dad).
In 2019 I took over as Practice Manager which opened my eyes to the world of Allied Health Practice Management Consulting, which I have now started a consulting business in.
Most of my treating hours are spent running GLA:D & Clinical Pilates classes mixed in with hands on private patients.
My physio career began with Honours in Sport & Exercise Science and working as a PT. Frustrated at not being able to answer my client’s fitness questions on a deeper level, and after suffering 2 knee recos myself, I moved up to the Gold Coast to study a Doctorate of Physiotherapy.
After 18months working in a rehab hospital, I started at The Joint Physiotherapy in 2010 and have not stopped learning and developing my knowledge and skills ever since. As I moved through from a mature new-grad to a senior Physio, I gained more confidence, developed a strong following and moved from Physio to a Business Owner. I have managed to balance working with elite athletes, treating our incredible community, developing The Joint Physio team and raising a young family and look forward to helping others along a similar journey.
A neck injury in my late teens. I spiked my interest in physio; I liked the idea of science and people. Despite this, my Dad talked me out of it and suggested a science degree would give me more options.
He was wrong…so after completing a degree in biochemistry I started Physio at Lincoln Institute. My first job was as an annual leave reliever at the Alfred. I also worked the twilight shift at St.Vincents hospital and volunteered at Melbourne Football Club.
Second year out managed to get a job at Malvern Sports Medicine where I went on to become a partner and head Physio at Prahran Sports Med. I was also employed as an assistant physiotherapy at MFC.
In my 3rd year out I was offered a senior role at Richmond FC. (GO TIGES!)
Having done as many continuing educational courses as I could get my hands on, I ran McConnell technique weekend workshops.
In 1990 I started a new practice called Proactive in Mount Waverley at which point I took a break from AFL (and had 4 kids). That practice grew and then expanded to Wheelers Hill, Caulfield, and Mt Buller.
I became a Titled Sports Physio in 1999, having been involved with elite basketball, softball, soccer, grid iron, 2000 Olympics, Macabbi games. I am currently still Physio to Australian Mens Softball team.
In the past few years I have cut back hours to spend time with my grandchild and keeping fit with bike, squash and gym while working part-time mentoring and with the part of physio I love – treating patients with an emphasis on hands on techniques; if a picture paints a thousand words, I can’t imagine the stories my hands could tell.
Following 3 years of studying biomedicine, I pursued my passion of sports medical career and decided to become a physio.
After spending a year in another private practice as a new graduate, I joined the Joint team in 2016 and it was a game changer.
Here I was provided not just with daily caseloads to handle but many kinds of opportunities to learn and develop as a better clinician. Some examples include working and travelling with various sports teams from amateur to elite, internal and external PD as well as attending professional conferences. These experiences along with close-knit family atmosphere at the Joint definitely helped me to expand my skills, knowledge and confidence in help managing patients achieve their health goals.
Moving and living in Caulfield was also a massive game changer of my life as I met my wife to be, who very recently gave birth to our first baby daughter!
I have been mentored by Bernie & Adam over the years and am now myself starting to take on the role of mentor.
The Team in Action
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