Your new role:
Join our multidisciplinary Child and Youth Mental Health Services (CYMHS) team as a Senior Speech Pathologist, where you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to adolescents experiencing acute mental health challenges.
Deliver advanced speech pathology assessment, intervention and evaluation within a collaborative interdisciplinary team in the Acute Adolescent Inpatient Mental Health Unit.
Provide clinical leadership through mentoring, supervision and education of clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants while supporting evidence-based practice.
Contribute to service development, quality improvement and research initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and strengthen speech pathology services.
Apply expert clinical judgement in the management of complex cases, working closely with patients, families and community partners to support effective care planning and discharge.
About you:
You are an experienced and compassionate Speech Pathologist who is passionate about improving outcomes for young people and thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced clinical environment.
Demonstrated experience delivering high-level speech pathology services for complex clinical presentations, with strong assessment, intervention and clinical decision-making skills.
A collaborative communicator who builds positive relationships across multidisciplinary teams, provides expert clinical advice and effectively engages with patients, families and stakeholders.
Proven leadership capability, including experience supervising and supporting clinicians, students or support staff while fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
A proactive and adaptable professional with a commitment to evidence-based practice, service improvement and delivering safe, person-centred care in a mental health setting.
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What we can offer you:
We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us:
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses.
We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
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