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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