Paediatric Speech Pathologist - Enhanced Child Health Services | Part-time Permanent

Australian Capital Territory; Canberra; On-site; AUD 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay rates

Salary Packaging

Flexible working conditions

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is seeking a Paediatric Speech Pathologist for the Enhanced Child Health Service in a part-time permanent role. You will join a growing multidisciplinary team in a tertiary hospital to support children, families and carers with speech, language and feeding needs.

Role involves comprehensive assessments, collaboration with families, and contributing to service development. Flexible working conditions, salary packaging and EAP are available; pro-rata salary for

Qualifications

• Experience as Speech Pathologist working with children is preferred.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive assessments including parent interviews, observations and speech-language evaluations.
• Perform feeding assessments when required and support families through the process.
• Collaborate with families, schools and health professionals to support children's communication and feeding needs.
• Contribute to service innovation, quality improvement and models of care within ECHS.

Job description

Paediatric Speech Pathologist - Enhanced Child Health Services
Part-time Permanent

• Competitive pay rates and excellent working conditions within a tertiary hospital.
• Salary Packaging with many options that provide full fringe benefits tax concessions.
• Flexible working conditions
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Access to onsite Physiotherapists.

About the Role:

Are you an experienced Speech Pathologist looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of children, young people and their families? The Enhanced Child Health Service (ECHS) is expanding, and we are excited to welcome a Speech Pathologist to join our growing multidisciplinary team in a newly established role.

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and grow speech pathology services within ECHS while working closely with families to support children with speech, language, communication and feeding needs. Using a family-centred approach, you will undertake comprehensive assessments through parent and carer interviews, direct observation, speech and language assessments, speech sound assessments and, where required, feeding assessments. Your expertise will help families better understand their child's strengths, challenges and support needs.

As a valued member of our team, you will enjoy the autonomy to utilise your clinical knowledge and professional judgement while collaborating with a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to delivering high-quality, coordinated care. You will build strong relationships with families, carers, schools, health professionals and community partners to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Beyond clinical practice, you will have opportunities to contribute to service innovation, quality improvement, professional supervision, education and the ongoing development of models of care. As this is a new role, your ideas, experience and leadership will help shape the future direction of speech pathology within ECHS.

Join us and be part of a dedicated team that is helping children, young people and families thrive through compassionate, evidence-based care.

Please note prior to commencement successful candidates will be required to:

• Comply with Canberra Health Services Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination policy.
• Comply with CHS credentialing and scope of clinical practice requirements for allied health professionals.

Note: This position is part-time at (18:22) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.

Note: Under the ACTPS employment framework you may be placed in another role where required for the efficient administration of the service.

Canberra Health Services (CHS) is focussed on the delivery of high quality, effective, person centred care. It provides acute, sub-acute, primary and community‐based health services, to the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and surrounding region. More information can be found on the CHS website .

Our Vision: creating exceptional health care together
Our Role: to be a health service that is trusted by our community
Our Values: Reliable, Progressive, Respectful and Kind

CHS is committed to workforce diversity and to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, we welcome applications from all diversity groups. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability and people who identify as LGBTQIA+ are particularly encouraged to apply.

The ACT public service is committed to closing the gap, underpinned by the belief that when Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a genuine say in the design and delivery of policies, programs and services that affect them, better life outcomes are achieved. More information can be found here ACT Closing the Gap Implementation Plan - ACT Government Transparency Portal .

Note

These permanent positions are part-time at (18:22) hours per week and the full-time salary noted above will be pro-rata.