Apply now Job no: 494525
Work type: Full - Time (Auto), Part - Time (Auto)
Location: Western Melbourne
Categories: Speech Pathologist
Location: West (Sunshine, Newport)
Vacancy Type: Permanent - Part-time/Full-Time
Job reference: 494525
Are you an established Speech Pathologist seeking a fulfilling, flexible new role? Could you provide exceptional support for Yooralla's clients to achieve their goals? Do you like working as part of a multidisciplinary team and share our values? Then, why not join the passionate Yooralla allied health team?
A therapy role with Yooralla offers: The opportunity to support children and young people with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose. Excellent formal and informal professional development opportunities – including opportunities to develop clinical, administration and management/leadership skills; a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave. Communities of practice to support professional networking and development – you'll be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists, with structured ongoing clinical supervision from Senior Clinicians. A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). Our allied health positions can be undertaken full-time or part-time, and we will support you to balance your lifestyle goals with providing excellent care to our clients. Administration and logistical support - including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing. A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer's leave and 12 week's primary carer parental leave). About the role Yooralla has multiple vacancies in Sunshine or Newport for passionate, positive relationship builders with experience working with a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model to join our team as a permanent, full-time or part-time, Paediatric Speech Pathologist. This fulfilling role will provide best practice, evidence-based speech pathology services across the scope of practice to children with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.
Your working days will involve:
Providing support, resources and information as part of the key worker model, to meet the family's individual needs in a range of settings such as home, childcare, kindergarten or school. Using a family centred approach and drawing on the skills of the larger team to develop goals and strategies with the family to support their identified priorities. Working as part of an interdisciplinary team of Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists. Providing indirect client service/family coordination to support client goals. Working with clients and families with complex needs. Managing your own caseload and appointments. Driving to homes and community settings within a 30 minute radius. Flexible working schedule and environment e.g. home, office, community. About You You'll be an established and enthusiastic Speech Pathologist with a tertiary qualification, be a member of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA), have good interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage with families using a family centered, key worker approach. You'll have an ability to work collaboratively with a team to support clients and families.
Experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model. The ability to build positive relationships with clients and their families. The opportunity to build on your clinical practice – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing clinical skills in areas you're not familiar with. Care for the work you do and for the people you work with. Competency in a variety of IT platforms, particularly client management systems. Good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills. An Australian driver's licence and own vehicle, and a willingness to travel across western suburbs as required. Appointment is subject to pre-employment checks including the NDIS Worker Screening Check, Inherent Position Requirements Employee Declaration, Working with Children's Check, Reference Checks, Speech Pathology Australia membership, etc.
Sound like you? Apply Now! Advertised: 29 Apr 2024 AUS Eastern Standard Time
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