Your new role:

As the Speech Pathologist Team Leader for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service (BIRS), you will deliver advanced clinical services and provide professional leadership to a specialised team. This role supports patients with complex rehabilitation needs, while also driving service development, education, and research initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing advanced clinical care, assessment, and treatment planning for complex patients
• Leading and supervising Speech Pathologists, Clinical Assistants, and Trainees
• Driving professional governance, succession planning, and workforce development
• Contributing to innovative models of care, service redesign, and evidence-based practice
• Leading service improvement and research projects of clinical significance
• Building strong interprofessional partnerships to enhance patient outcomes

About you:

We are seeking a highly motivated clinical leader with advanced expertise in Speech Pathology and a passion for rehabilitation and innovation.

To succeed in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Advanced clinical knowledge in speech pathology within brain injury rehabilitation
• Strong leadership skills, including supervision, workforce planning, and governance
• High-level communication and collaboration skills within multidisciplinary settings
• Proven ability to lead service improvements, innovation, and research initiatives
• 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:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.

We are better together.