Speech Language Pathologist - Extensive Needs Service (ON, Toronto)

Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading pediatric rehabilitation hospital dedicated to supporting children and families with complex needs. This innovative role as a Speech Language Pathologist involves providing compassionate assessments and interventions within a collaborative interprofessional team. You'll contribute to a new program that integrates care across various health domains, ensuring equitable access to services. With a commitment to ongoing learning and professional growth, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of children and youth. Be part of a supportive environment that values creativity and excellence in care.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Ongoing learning and professional growth

Inclusive work environment

Collaborative team culture

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology required.
• Experience with complex needs and neurodevelopmental conditions preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, intervention, and consultation to clients and families.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to inform care plans.

Skills

Assessment and Intervention

Communication Skills

Team Collaboration

Flexibility

Education

Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology

Tools

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

Standardized Tests

Job description

Join us in building a world of possibility! Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is Canada’s largest pediatric rehabilitation hospital, and a top 40 Canadian research hospital. Serving over 9,000 families annually in both inpatient and outpatient programs and services, Holland Bloorview is renowned for its expertise in partnering with clients and families to provide exceptional care and is the only organization to ever achieve 100 per cent in three successive quality surveys by Accreditation Canada.

Holland Bloorview’s vision is to support the most meaningful and healthy futures for all children, youth and families. We are an academic hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. All clinical staff are expected to contribute to the academic agenda through one or more of the following activities: supervising students, teaching, academic service, scholarship and research.

Holland Bloorview has won numerous awards including Greater Toronto's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People and Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures. We offer an inspiring, inclusive, innovative, and collaborative work environment with competitive compensation and benefit packages and programs that support ongoing learning and professional growth.

The Position:

This is an exciting opportunity for an innovative, creative and experienced Speech Language Pathologist to join the Extensive Needs Service, a new program for individuals up to the age of 18, whose needs cannot be met in a single service stream and who require an integrated approach across Mental, Behavioural and Developmental Health. While this is primarily a clinical role, there will be opportunity to work with other members of an interprofessional team to develop the Speech Language Pathologist role within Extensive Needs based on best practice and evidence. As an integral member of the interprofessional team, the Speech Language Pathologist will provide trauma-informed and compassionate assessment, and intensive intervention, and consultation to children, youth and families with extensive needs such as co-occurring medical, physical and developmental complexities and/or social vulnerabilities. The successful candidate will also provide consultation and training to inter-disciplinary team members. To promote an equitable and accessible treatment model for clients and their families, services will be provided in a variety of locations including Holland Bloorview main campus, satellite clinics across the GTA and the client’s home and/or school.

This is a temporary part-time (0.5 FTE) position until May, 2026.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides evaluation, assessment, intervention and consultation to clients and their families
• Works in collaboration to inform integrated care plans
• Uses appropriate standardized tests and outcome measures in clinical practice
• Uses non-standard assessment tools/forms when appropriate
• Makes appropriate referrals to other services, agencies, etc.
• Incorporates goal setting in discussion with family/client
• Adapts approach to changing needs of clients and families
• Engaging family/client in goal setting (can delete - two bullets noted above)
• Adheres to Centre/professional documentation guidelines
• Demonstrates familiarity with current literature, evidence-base practice, clinical issues and trends of practice
• Participates in regular quality improvement activities to further refine clinical practice, equitable and efficient service for clients and families
• Shares new knowledge and best practices with colleagues, students and other professionals within the organization, professional body and community (can delete - noted two bullets below)
• Participate in quality improvement activities to ensure the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment
• Utilize the teaching/learning process to provide education, both formal and informal, to clients/families, colleagues, students, and other professionals within the organization and the community
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives, supports the maintenance of a safe and healthy work environment and advances a culture of client/patient safety through work and daily practices
• Supports the supervision of student clin
• Other duties as assigned; enhanced hours of service are required at times
• Partner with community agencies, as appropriate
• Work collaboratively with Communicative Disorder Assistants (CDAs) supportive personnel as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Masters degree in Speech Language Pathology
• Current registration with the College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO)
• Previous pediatric clinical experience preferred
• Experience providing assessment, consultation and treatment for clients with complex needs, including neurodevelopmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and/or acquired brain injuries
• Experience implementing augmentative and alternative communication systems preferred
• Familiarity with Applied Behaviour Analysis an asset
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with clients, families and members of the interdisciplinary care team
• Demonstrated flexibility and co-operation in dealing with change
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and in an interdisciplinary team