Primary Care Physiotherapist

Primary Care Physiotherapists (5) Full-time Permanent 

Location: Collingwood and Wasaga Beach

Start Date: May 2026

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, within the hours of 8am to 5pm, with flexibility to offer some late or early morning visits to meet patient preference.

Benefits: A comprehensive health, drugs, vision and dental package and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). Paid vacation, personal leave and a generous professional development budget.

Salary range $83,145 to $96,400 per annum depending on experience.

Our region offers outstanding four-season recreation for those who enjoy the outdoors. Georgian Bay Family Health Team (GBFHT) is a progressive, interdisciplinary team and an active partner in the South Georgian Bay Ontario Health Team (OHT), with strong community relationships across the region. We offer a collaborative work environment, a modern EMR system and AI scribe, and opportunities for ongoing professional development. Services include Lung Health, Healthy Aging, Nutrition Counselling, Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Mental Health Counselling, and Telemedicine.

We are seeking Physiotherapists (PT) to create a team of 5. As a Physiotherapist in this new and unique role you will provide primary care assessment, education, care planning, and clinical guidance for rostered patients presenting with musculoskeletal, mobility, pain, and functional concerns.

As the successful candidate you will support timely access to conservative care, contribute to chronic disease management and prevention strategies, and help optimize patient outcomes within a team-based primary care environment. You will assess and support patients prior to them seeing their primary care provider to help facilitate timely intervention, conservative management, and support increased capacity within the primary care team.  This role will require some change management skills to help with shifting public understanding of the role of physiotherapy within a primary care team.

Key responsibilities:

• Use research and evidence to inform clinical care, education, and planning.
• Advise patients and their families on health promotion, disease, illness, and accident prevention.
• Provide comprehensive physiotherapy assessments for rostered patients presenting with musculoskeletal, mobility, pain, and functional concerns.
• Deliver front-line consultation, triage, and early intervention for musculoskeletal and mobility-related concerns.
• Assess and support patients prior to primary care provider appointments where appropriate to assist with early assessment, patient education, and care planning.
• Collaborate closely with physicians and interdisciplinary team members to support coordinated patient care.
• Identify patients requiring further medical evaluation, imaging, specialist referral, or urgent intervention.
• Provide patient education regarding injury prevention, self-management strategies, ergonomics, exercise guidance, and healthy lifestyle practices.
• Support chronic disease management initiatives where physiotherapy input may improve function and quality of life.
• Document assessments, recommendations, progress notes, and care plans within the electronic medical record (EMR) in a timely manner.
• Participate in case conferences, quality improvement activities, and interdisciplinary care planning.
• Assist in developing clinical pathways and best practices related to musculoskeletal and functional care within primary care.
• Promote appropriate utilization of healthcare resources and support reduction of unnecessary specialist referrals and diagnostic imaging where appropriate.
• Maintain professional standards, continuing education, and regulatory requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in health sciences, holding current registration with the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario in good standing.
• Hold current First Aid and CPR certifications
• Valid Ontario driver’s license and operational vehicle

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years’ experience
• Experience with community care and/or a primary care setting
• Experience working in an interdisciplinary team environment
• Evidence of continued post graduate training in musculoskeletal assessment
• Verbal and written communication, including effective use of computer programs like Microsoft Office, PS Suite experience an asset
• Working autonomously and being self-directed

Skills/Attributes: 

• Models and promotes core ethical practice and reflects an optimistic and positive attitude
• Formulating and implementing individual treatment plans based on analysis of assessment findings and clinical reasoning
• Be adept at working collaboratively with members of our interprofessional team, family physicians, nurse practitioners, and other community health professionals.
• Risk management and optimizing patient safety

We look forward to reading your cover letter highlighting why you would be a good fit with our team. Send this along with a copy of your resumé to info@gbfht.ca.