Run your own practice. Without running everything around it.

Independent practice. Practitioners at Brunswick Health run their own businesses under their own names and ABNs — you are not an employee and there is no boss. Brunswick Health provides the rooms, reception, systems and marketing; the clinical practice, the fees and the decisions are yours. The relationship is closer to landlord and tenant than to employer and employee.

Yes, within the hub's shift structure. Sessions run mornings 9:00am to 2:00pm and afternoon-evenings 2:00pm to 7:00pm, which is what makes shared rooms and front desk cover work. There is some flexibility to shift those times depending on the day and room availability. You choose which days you work and how many.

Consultation fees follow the published schedule for your discipline, so nobody here is priced against a colleague and a patient sees the same fee whichever practitioner they book. It is the arrangement most practitioners say they want in a shared building — undercutting inside one creates problems for everyone in it, including whoever starts. Late-cancellation fees, and anything outside the schedule such as longer appointments or products, remain yours.

Rooms, front desk and reception staff, practice management software, EFTPOS and HICAPS payment processing, marketing and online presence, admin, utilities and consumables. It is a single transparent percentage of what you bill — no bond, no fixed rent, no minimum term, no separate line items. What it does not cover is your own professional development, AHPRA registration, professional indemnity insurance, and any specialised equipment the hub does not normally stock.

Because room rental transfers all the risk to the practitioner and most of the difficulty with it as well. Clinical skill and business skill are different things, and a practitioner paying fixed rent while learning marketing and admin from scratch is carrying a cost from day one against an income that has not started yet. A percentage model aligns everyone's goals: the hub is invested in helping you attract patients, grow your reputation and build a successful long-term practice.

Yes, and you keep them. Patients you bring, and patients you build here, remain yours provided they are seeing you exclusively. Nobody owns a patient — people are always free to choose who they see — but the practitioner agreements are explicit that practitioners must not solicit clients they have not themselves treated. That clause protects your book as much as anyone else's.

Yes. You set your days and your clinical approach, you keep your patient base, and you make the decisions about your business. Consultation fees are the one thing that follows a shared schedule, so nobody in the building is priced against a colleague. Brunswick Health does not direct clinical care and does not employ practitioners — the whole model depends on practitioners being genuinely independent.

It can work, but be realistic: practitioners with at least a year of experience transition more smoothly. Admin, marketing and systems are covered, so the part that determines whether a new practice grows is patient communication and retention — and that is the part nobody else can do for you. Some mentoring is available. If you are a new graduate weighing this against a salaried role, the salaried role is often the better first step.

Physiotherapists, podiatrists, massage therapists and myotherapists, colonic hydrotherapists, osteopaths, occupational therapists, functional medicine practitioners and other allied health professionals. If your discipline is not listed and you think it fits alongside the seven already at the clinic, get in touch — the roster has grown by exactly that route before.

Five steps. A no-pressure phone call about what you are trying to build; a tour of the rooms; a formal interview if the tour goes well; onboarding with payment systems, software and inclusion in the clinic's marketing; then you start. Brunswick Health is selective — a practitioner who does not fit the collaborative model makes the building worse for everyone in it, so the interview runs both ways.

1/68 Melville Road, Brunswick West VIC 3055 — on the route 58 tram line, six kilometres from the Melbourne CBD, with street parking out front. The building has treatment rooms across seven disciplines, a staffed reception, private ensuite rooms for colonic irrigation, and shared equipment including shockwave therapy and compression therapy. The clinic is open Monday to Friday 8:45am to 7:00pm and Saturday 8:45am to 4:00pm.