Senior Speech Pathologist

Soaring Health; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work across multiple sites

Dedicated admin support

Mentoring & supervision

PD hours included

Company car for community work

PD leave

PD budget per year

Job summary

Soaring Health in Melbourne seeks a Speech Pathologist to work across multiple clinics, offering both on-site and community-based services. You will provide speech, language, AAC, social skills, fluency and voice interventions to adults and children with diverse needs.

The role emphasizes MDT collaboration, supervision of students, and opportunities for ongoing professional development within a supportive team. A dynamic, client-centred practice is offered.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and client-centred care principles.
• Effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to assess, plan and implement speech-language pathology interventions.

Responsibilities

• Speech: help clients speak more clearly and be understood.
• Language: support for ideas, words, reading and writing.
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC): assist with devices for complex needs.
• Social Skills: improve social interactions and body language awareness.
• Stuttering: provide strategies to improve fluency and confidence.
• Voice: exercises to optimize voice quality and healthy vocal habits.

Skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Assessment & diagnosis

Education

SPA registration

Membership with professional body

Working with Children Check

Victorian Police Check

Experience in Speech, Dysphagia, and Swallowing for all ages

Job description

Flexibility to work across various sites:

• Craigieburn
• Templestowe Lower
• Thomastown
• Community-based

Qualifications

• SPA registration
• Membership with professional body
• Working with Children Check
• Victorian Police Check
• "Experience in Speech, Dysphagia, and Swallowing for all ages" (preferred but not essential)

Working Hours

• Full time OR Part time options available.
• We are open from 8AM to 8PM Monday to Friday & 8AM to 6PM on Saturday
• You are able to select the working hours that suit you best

Contact Officer

Nav Ahmad-Khan - Head of Allied Health

Office: 03-9013 5987

About Soaring Health

Soaring Health is an award-winning allied health care centre with 6 state of the art clinics throughout Melbourne. Our clinics offer a range of onsite, remote, and in-home services to clients receiving Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, Dietetics and Allied Heath care services. Our dedicated team is passionate about enriching lives so that people can go on living.

• Complete autonomy with calendar and bookings
• Working within a state-of-the-art facility with dedicated front-end team
• Work-life balance

What you will do:

• Speech – support to speak more clearly and be understood
• Language – support for people who may have trouble putting their ideas and thoughts into words and sentences or who may need support with reading and writing
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication – support using devices for people with complex communication needs
• Social Skills – support to improve the understanding of the rules for social interaction and awareness of body language, facial expressions and voice tone to improve social interactions
• Stuttering – provide strategies to support smooth speech delivery and management of stuttering to increase confidence
• Voice – provide exercises and support to optimize voice quality and develop healthy vocal habits

Working with adults and children who have a range of conditions:

• Down Syndrome
• Cerebral Palsy
• Stammers
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Cleft Palate
• Swallowing – make mealtime more enjoyable by reducing risk and increasing acceptance of different foods and textures

Taking on more clients than new grads

Seeing a greater variety of clients of all types

Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently

Be able to effectively supervise AHA students in clinic

Give opportunity to new grads to observe

Be a buddy for new grad Speech Paths

Participate in MDT training and workshops

Begin to build skills in particular clinical areas

How we will support you:

• Dedicated admin team
• Dedicated HR and finance team to look after all admin affairs
• Dedicated team leaders and team manager in each department
• Fully stocked clinics with resources
• Ability to have resource packs made up to travel within the community
• Back-end processes in place to make daily work easier
• Dedicated internal/external supervision and mentoring as well as PD
• Opportunities for observation of more experienced/ specialized staff across disciplines

What's in it for you:

• Advancement of clinical knowledge
• Working with preferred caseload and client types
• Regular mentoring and supervision
• Team specific meetings and support
• In-house PD at no cost (Over 40 PD hours per year)

More benefits:

• Access to a work car for community and remote work
• Paid travel for community work
• Paid PD leave
• PD budget per calendar year
• Paid staff meetings and professional development in-house
• Access for work vehicle and work-related travel coverage
• Access to gym and swim facilities at our sites located inside leisure centres
• Let your career soar at Soaring Health

Let your career soar at Soaring Health

TRAC - Thomastown Recreation & Aquatic Centre

Soaring Health acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which our services are located. We honour the strength and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and pay our respects to all Elders, past and present.