Scott became a leader in the local healthcare industry establishing an allied health business with a national reach.

Community Therapy, which he founded in 2017, provides allied health services such as physiotherapy and occupational therapy ‘direct to the door’ for aged care and disability clients across the Central Coast and the Hunter.

Since then, he has grown the business to a team of 90 employees, as well as extended its reach beyond our region with an online manual handling training course, which has been completed by over 5,000 aged care and disability support workers across the country.

A keen sportsman, Scott graduated from the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and traces the formation of his passion back to his time on the sports field as a teenager.

“I was the stereotypical Physiotherapy student,” Scott said.

“Growing up I participated in a range of sports and had many positive experiences with the physios who treated me after some of my sporting injuries.”

Scott went on to explain how these physiotherapists always seemed passionate about their career yet maintained a healthy work-life balance.

“I chose the University of Newcastle to complete my studies as I’d heard it was a great program with amazing professors and lecturers. That definitely held true,” Scott affirmed.

Scott was exposed to a variety of clinical settings during his degree. He had placements within ICU, geriatric, neurological, and cardiorespiratory rehabilitation and within private practice. It was during these experiences that he discovered the clinical area that he was most interested in.

“I always thought that I would be a musculoskeletal private practice physiotherapist focused on acute sporting injuries,” Scott said.

“However, during placement, I found that I enjoyed my geriatric and neurological placements the most. Clinically, I still practice as a physiotherapist and see several clients a week at Community Therapy, as my clinical areas of interest are falls and frailty.”

Scott reminisces about the times he would spend in the practical rooms in the Physiotherapy department as an undergraduate student.

“We would be practicing all the assessment and intervention skills we learnt during the week whilst having a great time together.

“I had the most wonderful time at Newcastle forging great friendships and connections,” Scott said.

Scott’s personal connections he developed during his studies have been instrumental in his professional life and he advises other students thinking of studying at the University of Newcastle to “sign up!”

“Newcastle is an amazing city which continues to grow both culturally and economically.

“You will forge new friendships and connections that will not only be meaningful personally but will help progress your professional career for decades after your graduate,” he said.

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Scott Lynch

Scott became a leader in the local healthcare industry establishing an allied health business with a national reach.

I chose the University of Newcastle to complete my studies as I’d heard it was a great program with amazing professors and lecturers. That definitely held true.