Your new role:
As a Senior Speech Pathologist, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based speech pathology services within the Logan Adolescent Day Program (ADP), Child & Youth Mental Health Service. Working as part of a highly collaborative interprofessional team, you will bring advanced clinical judgement to complex presentations while contributing to clinical education, supervision, service development and quality improvement.
Deliver comprehensive speech pathology assessment, intervention and evaluation for young people.
Manage a complex clinical workload, including prioritisation, treatment planning and discharge planning.
Provide high-level clinical advice and act as a clinical reference point for the Speech Pathology team.
Work closely with young people, families, carers, multidisciplinary colleagues and external agencies.
About you:
We are looking for an experienced Speech Pathologist who brings strong clinical expertise, sound professional judgement and a genuine commitment to improving outcomes for young people. You will be confident working within a multidisciplinary mental health environment and able to balance clinical priorities with leadership, education and service improvement responsibilities.
Demonstrated high-level speech pathology knowledge, skills and clinical expertise.
Experience delivering complex speech pathology services within an adolescent or mental health setting.
Strong clinical reasoning, prioritisation, workload management and discharge planning skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with young people, families and professionals.
Tertiary qualifications in Speech Pathology and eligibility for practising membership with Speech Pathology Australia.
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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 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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