• Women's and Children's Health Network, Sub-Acute and Allied Health, Child Development Unit – North Adelaide (5006)
• Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $102, 641 to $110,094 pro rata
• Part Time 0.5 FTE – Term Contract (Temporary up until June 2025)

About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Child Development Unit team as a Senior Speech Pathologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Delivering culturally appropriate, equitable, comprehensive, high quality and contemporary integrated care focused assessment services for infants, children, young people and their families of the Women’s and Children’s Health Network.
• Deliver advanced clinical services in the assessment of infants, children, and adolescents, and their families who present with complex neurodevelopmental differences.
• Functioning as a specialist clinical expert in the assessment of, and intervention planning for children within the multidisciplinary (medical and allied health) team.
• Formulating differential diagnoses of a child’s neurodevelopmental profile, drawing on knowledge, experience and skills in assessing children’s development, speech and language skills, pragmatic skills and social communication skills, and synthesizing information provided by parents/caregivers and others working and supporting the child.
• Acting as a key discipline contributing to the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, within a multidisciplinary team process.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Demonstrated competence in administering assessment tools in the diagnosis of communication delays and disorders.
• Ability to undertake specialist assessment of children with complex developmental problems and to understand highly complex clinical presentations by applying knowledge of child development processes, theory and practice.
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience working as a paediatric speech pathologist.
• Demonstrated leadership and motivation skills, and in the evaluation of clinical services.

What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity.

Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 868624

Enquiries

Henry Bell, Administration Manager & Credentialing Officer, Tel: 08 8161 6087, Email: [email protected]

Application Closing Date: Sunday 30 June 2024 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

AHP3 - Senior Speech Pathologist - CDU - Role Description - 868624

Application Instructions

You will be required to submit a 2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role, a current resume/curriculum vitae and responses to the questions contained within the application