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Speech Pathologist (Senior)

Metro South Health Service
Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
A$64.64-A$69.55 p/h
Above market
Healthcare & Medical → Speech Therapy
Full-time
On-site

Posted 23 hours ago


Your new role:

As a Senior Speech Pathologist within the Acute Speech Pathology team at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical services within a highly functioning interprofessional environment. You'll manage a diverse and complex caseload while contributing to clinical education, supervision, quality improvement and service development.

You will:

  • Deliver senior Speech Pathology services across acute inpatient, spinal cord injury and specialist outpatient settings, including assessment, intervention and evaluation.
  • Provide clinical advice, supervision and training to less experienced clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.

About you:

You are an experienced Speech Pathologist who thrives in a complex clinical environment and can bring sound clinical judgement, strong communication and a commitment to evidence-based practice. You will be confident working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and supporting the development of colleagues and students.

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:

  • Strong clinical judgement, prioritisation and discharge planning skills in a complex environment.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration and clinical advisory skills, including the ability to manage conflict effectively.

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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

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.


About Metro South Health Service

Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia

Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions.

We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland’s population. We employ more than 10,000 staff and have an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion.

Our catchment spans 3,856 square kilometres and covers the area from the Brisbane River in the north to Redland City in the east, south to Logan and the eastern portion of the Scenic Rim to the border of New South Wales.

We have five major hospitals in addition to a number of health centres throughout the region.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.

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