Senior Speech Pathologist
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.
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.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- 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
In addition to the general Speech Pathologist roles & responsibilities:
- 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:
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Down Syndrome
- Cerebral Palsy
- Developmental delays
- Stammers
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Intellectual disabilities
- Cleft Palate
- Voice disorders
- 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
You Will Also Be Responsible For
- Taking on more COMPLEX clients and seeing a greater variety of clients of all types
- Look at completing AT assessment and reports independently for specialised AT
- Be able to effectively supervise SP and 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
- Provide mentoring and supervision for Speech and new grad Speechies
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
- Resource budget per discipline per month
- 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
- Ongoing clinical development
- 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
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