Speech Pathologist Level 3 - Sustaining NSW Families
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District – Blue Mountains NSW
Employment Type: Permanent Part Time
Position Classification: Speech Pathologist Level 3
Location: St Marys Community Health Centre
Remuneration: $54.76 - $56.54 per hour
Hours Per Week: 8
Requisition ID: REQ520896
Applications Close: 24/11/2024
With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Empowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.
About Us
Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.
The Primary Care and Community Health Unit consists of 9 centres that provide a range of services for children, young people and their families, adults, older people, and their carers. Our services range from health promotion, prevention and early detection through to assessment, treatment, and continuing care.
An opportunity has become available for a qualified Speech Pathologist to join the Sustaining NSW Families team at St Marys Community Health Centre. The Sustaining NSW Families program is a structured home-based antenatal and postnatal support and intervention program.
The Speech Pathologist is responsible for providing a specialist Speech Pathology service to vulnerable families within the Sustaining NSW Families Program. You will provide high-level clinical consultation, advocacy, education, and support to the SNF team. This includes consultation with individual clinicians as well as collaborative input into team case conferencing and will contribute high-level clinical expertise to case planning, case management as part of the multidisciplinary health team and during case review/discussion meetings. This position is one day a week, and the preferred day is Wednesday.
If this is the kind of working environment for you and the opportunity excites you, please apply now!
What you will bring to the role:
* Degree in Speech Pathology, and eligible for membership of Speech Pathology Australia.
* Extensive experience in paediatric clinical services, including: Assessment, planning, and evaluating Speech Pathology interventions in working with children particularly aged 0-5 years of age presenting with difficulties in feeding or communication development.
* Demonstrated capacity to provide clinical consultation in partnership with the child and family health nurse and facilitate case review, in the context of family-centred casework within a community-based multidisciplinary team.
* Demonstrated ability to provide information, advice, and education to clients, carers, and other professionals including: anticipatory guidance, treatment intervention, and management strategies to facilitate progress and promote optimal development of the child.
* Demonstrated high-level verbal and written communication skills, computer competence, and ability to use electronic medical records, word processing, and databases.
* Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain cooperative professional and therapeutic relationships with clients, government, and NGO agencies through the use of well-developed interpersonal and conflict resolution skills.
* Current unrestricted driver’s licence and the willingness to use for work purposes.
NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns, and people of mature age.
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