Bayside Health Services are looking for a Senior Speech Pathologist to join their team. The Speech Pathology Department is based at Redland Hospital and is spread between the Redland Hospital, Wynnum-Manly Community Health Service and Redland Residential Care. The Senior Speech Pathologist will deliver services within a sole clinical role in the areas of feeding / dysphagia, with services provided across the Special Care Nursey, Paediatric Ward, Maternity Ward, Emergency Department and Post-Acute and Outpatient Clinics. The role part time for 7 months.
Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.
This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
The purpose of this role is to deliver senior Paediatric Speech Pathology services within a sole clinical role in the areas of feeding / dysphagia, with services provided across the Special Care Nursey, Paediatric Ward, Maternity Ward, Emergency Department and Post-Acute and Outpatient Clinics.
This includes:
- Delivering high quality evidenced based Paediatric Speech Pathology clinical services to patients/consumers within a highly functioning multidisciplinary team.
- Contribution to the advancement of quality Paediatric Speech Pathology services and optimal patient care, through provision of service development, quality improvement, and clinical education.
- Monitoring and reporting on work practices and outcomes, including initiating, planning and evaluating relevant quality and research initiatives.
- Providing supervision and training to less experienced (HP3) clinicians, students and to Allied Health Assistants (AHA's).
Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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