Senior Clinician - Speech Pathologist

             
Location: Preferred North (Glenroy), West (Sunshine, Newport) but will consider East or South metro Melbourne locations
Type:           Permanent - Part-time/Full-Time                                 
Job reference: 494592

Salary Range:   $104,943.49 - $121,307.82 (depends on experience) + superannuation + salary packaging        

Yooralla is seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Clinician - Speech Pathologist with expert knowledge and experience working with people with disability.

Do you enjoy working in a consultancy role, with a variety of people with disability and their referring Speech Pathologists?

Then, why not join the passionate Yooralla Allied Health team?

A therapy role with Yooralla offers:

• Fulfilling work supporting adults with disabilities to achieve their goals and lead self-determined lives.
• Extensive formal and informal professional development opportunities, with a generous allowance and paid study leave.
• A supportive employer promoting work/life balance and flexibility, offering full-time or part-time roles and accommodating flexible hours and locations of work.
• Administrative and logistical support, including assistance with intake, NDIS coordination, and billing.
• Competitive salary with salary packaging options, along with generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring, or parental purposes.

About the role

Yooralla has a vacancy in our North/West region (preferred but will consider east or south location for the right person) with flexible working arrangements, for a passionate, positive relationship builder, with significant experience working in a transdisciplinary consultative model to join our team as a Senior Clinician Speech Pathologist.

You will provide best practice, evidence-informed speech pathology services to support people with a disability to achieve their goals and lead the life of their choosing. You will hold a strong understanding of working within a human rights practice framework, person-centered and family centered practice, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary models of support and have leading clinical skills.

In addition to managing a clinical case load this position carries a portfolio of specialist clinical practice. You will be responsible for providing strong practice leadership across the organisation and contribute to; research and development, policy and practice frameworks, supporting clinical risk management as required, workforce recruitment and planning, staff education and training in areas of specialist clinical knowledge, practice supervision and practice effectiveness including clinical audits to enhance the services we deliver.

About You

You will be an established and enthusiastic Speech Pathologist with a tertiary qualification in speech pathology, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to engage people with a disability and their support team to build their capability. You will have expert ability to work in partnership with referring therapists, to work collaboratively with the client, their family and their primary therapist.

To be successful in this role you’ll share Yooralla’s values and have:

• experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model
• the ability to build positive relationships with clients, their families, and referring therapists
• a willingness to continuously improve on your clinical and technical knowledge – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing knowledge and 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

Additional postgraduate qualifications in a relevant discipline are highly regarded.

Mandatory Requirements

·       International Police Check (if required)

·       Working with Children Check

·       NDIS Worker Screening Check

·       Current driver's licence to drive in Australia (travel is an expectation of the position)

·       Registration with Speech Pathology Australia

Appointment is subject to pre-employment checks including the NDIS Worker Screening Check,

Sound like you? Hit Apply!

To find out more about this role, please contact Laura McElhinney, Professional Lead – Speech Pathology, on 0436 602 613 or laura.mcelhinney@yooralla.com.au

For any other queries regarding Allied Health Services at Yooralla, please contact Kylie Bowden, Director Allied Health on kylie.bowden@yooralla.com.au. 

More information about working with Yooralla

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose. Find out more about what we do.

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.

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