Careers
Current OpeningsWe have a no-ego culture and are all learning and growing alongside each other.
We hold weekly team trainings and our learning spans from clinical growth and excellence, to personal growth, team building, and social issues. A big focus is clinical reasoning and personal reflection.
We are passionate about justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, and are working hard to assess our own privilege and bias and make our individual and collective work more inclusive and accessible to clients who experience marginalization.
We are a busy clinic that has the good fortune of only growing and flourished through the challenges of 2020. We have a great reputation and new staff consistently walk into a full caseload. Yay!
If You:
Are a life long learner
Want to be part of a collaborative team environment
Love pelvic health
Understand the need for personal growth as well as professional development
Want to work in a clinic where you're seen, celebrated, and have room to grow
Current Openings
Are you passionate about making a difference in the world of pelvic health?
Are you confident in your clinical care, and ready to explore skills and roles beyond that of a clinician alone?
Do you want to work with a collaborative team, where you are seen, celebrated, and supported in your growth?
If you answered a hard YES to each of those questions, then we would love to hear from you!
Who are we?
The Cheerful Pelvis is a team of empowered pelvic health physiotherapists and allied staff working on the beautiful lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our overarching mission is that all people prioritize pelvic health and are able to access an exceptional provider. Within our clinic, we focus on collaborative learning and professional and personal growth as we strive towards excellence in clinical experience. We prioritize the wellbeing of our staff as much as the wellbeing of our clients, recognizing that each is dependent on the other.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an experienced physiotherapist to join our team. Someone with:
-A goal to move directly into a senior physiotherapy position OR jump on the pathway to senior physio.
-Experience treating all sexes for bladder and bowel dysfunction, sexual pain, genital pain, complex pain and trauma, perinatal care, and pelvic floor-related musculoskeletal conditions, AND experience successfully taking these clients through to meet all their goals.
-A strong understanding of the importance of supportive relationships, life-long learning, and attention to the small things.
-Interest in contributing to formal and/or informal mentorship of our clinical team and taking students/shadows.
-A minimum commitment of 3 days per week.
Not sure if you’re considered an “experienced physio”? Reach out anyway and we can chat further; we have a pathway to senior physio that may be perfect for you!
What we can offer you:
-Competitive compensation with room for financial growth: $110k-125k for senior physio based on 30 clinical hours as a commissioned employee; additional hourly pay for non-clinical work; potential for switching to salary; $90-110k for junior physio based on 30 clinical hours as a commissioned employee
-We are a well-established clinic with a broad referral source, so no need to build your own caseload
-Education allowance and opportunities for additional funded leadership training and workshops
-Opportunities to take on additional clinical roles and diversify your skill set in areas that interest you: Clinical team management, Community engagement, Service development, Mentorship/education, Knowledge translation, Justice/Equity/Diversity/Inclusion
-Private treatment rooms and communal gym space with Pilates and strength training equipment (Reformer, Cadillac, squat rack, kettlebells, etc)
-Exceptionally skilled and supportive Admin team
-A tight-knit, collaborative Clinical team
-Ongoing support from the Leadership Team
-Weekly team inservices
If this sounds like a fit for you, please reach out to trish@thecheerfulpelvis.com
Check out @the.cheerful.pelvis on Instagram for an inside look.
And here’s what some of our staff has to say, starting with a senior physio:
“I have always loved my clinical role, but I found myself fatiguing of clinical care. I also felt that the learning opportunities I was exposed to mainly improved my clinical skill set, but I was craving opportunities to expand my skill set in other areas. Before TCP I took on a lot of unpaid volunteer projects that made me excited again about my clinical work, but left me overstretched and exhausted. Joining TCP and taking on a Senior Physiotherapist role brought a better work/play balance into my life; it allowed me to continue to treat clinically and at the same time push my comfort zone and upskill in other areas (leadership, mentorship, education, management), all within the boundaries of my job role. The senior physio role at our clinic is a unique opportunity to discover untapped strengths and build those skills, without having to abandon clinical care.”
“Exactly the team dynamic that I have been looking for for years. Feels like we are learning and growing from one another. I feel supported and like I am part of a “whole” while still feeling like I have autonomy to do my thing.”
We are looking for a full time pelvic health physiotherapist to join our special team!
We offer an in depth mentorship program to kick start your work with us, and ongoing supervision and weekly inservice’s with the team once you’re established and confident.
For the right person with the right growth mindset we can offer this position to new grads and those new to pelvic health.
For more experienced staff, we offer a track to grow your skills in leadership and mentorship, and the opportunity to contribute to progressive service clinical development.
We have an ongoing lengthy waitlist so you can focus on your clinical skills and clients, you won’t have to market your services.
All staff are commissioned employees, and we work morning and afternoon shifts.
If you’re interested – please get in touch! It’s never to early and we’d love to get to know you!
We find our clinic learning and culture is so all in, it’s easier for staff to be full timers so they can really take advantage of what we offer.
If you are solely looking to work part time, it is possible to join our team as long as you have the capacity to take full advantage of our mentorship and clinic learning.
If you’re thinking about us, just get in touch! We want to know you!
Employee Testimonials
Meet Our Cheerful Founder
Anniken Chadwick
Founder, Pelvic Health Physio
Anniken founded The Cheerful Pelvis to create the community and support she couldn’t find when she entered into pelvic health.
She believes that pelvic health care shouldn’t be pushed into the back room of a regular physio clinic but has its own particular needs, especially around being more holistic and trauma informed. The clinic was designed to meet these needs both for the clients and us professionals.
Anniken operates the clinic as a womb for staff and clients alike to be nurtured to grow into their full potential.
She is passionate about working to progress the physiotherapy profession to be more relational, focussing on the therapeutic alliance, and to decolonize the culture of the profession. She has training in somatic psychotherapy, and an MEd in Contemplative Inquiry, and uses her cross discipline learning to optimize the transformative learning of team cheerful. If you are interested in learning more about Anniken’s decolonizing and mentorship work see The Art of Physio site for more info.