Senior Speech Pathologist

Company Description

Welcome to Ability Action Australia!

We are one of the largest providers to the NDIS, supporting over 10,000 participants every year with the care they need, when and where it is needed. We have a multi-disciplinary team approach, building a quality support service around the needs and goals of our participants and their family.

Help us help others to improve their access, development, independence, and overall health and wellbeing, and function.

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Job Description

We’re growing our multidisciplinary team supporting NDIS participants and are looking for a Senior Speech Pathologist who wants to make a meaningful impact in their local community while providing leadership and guidance to others.

You’ll bring advanced clinical expertise, strong organisational skills, and a passion for helping people achieve their goals. In return, we’ll provide:

• Structured supervision and mentoring, plus opportunities to mentor junior clinicians
• Generous CPD and leadership development to keep you at the top of your game
• A supportive, collaborative workplace where you work within a multi-disciplinary team

You will work with a range of participants and support them to achieve their goals. We love flexibility and will tailor your caseload to suit your interests.

If you’re an experienced Speech Pathologist ready to step into a senior role and enjoy the freedom of community-based work in a supportive, collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you.

What's in It for You?

As you support many, we support you. We offer:

Work flexibility – From 24 hours a week to full time, you select the hours and days that work best for you as an individual.

Excellent remuneration – Industry leading salary + salary packaging + car allowance + laptop + smartphone + purchase leave.

True work-life balance – The autonomy of setting your calendar, your way. Combine the convenience of working from home with time at our supportive hubs.

Career progression – Access to ongoing training tailored to your interests and long-term goals combined with professional development opportunities through Ability Action Australia and our parent company, MedHealth.

• Continuous Professional Development – A generous CPD allowance and paid leave days to complete this.
• Passionate and positive culture – Be part of a purpose-driven team that believes in making a difference.

Responsibilities Will Include

Manage an allocated caseload (based on your negotiated hours) and deliver timely therapeutic services

Our Early Years caseload (0-5) – Clinic/Home-based early intervention and parent coaching (including speech sounds, early language, feeding, school-readiness)

School-aged children (5-18) – Literacy, social communication, speech, language, fluency, voice, feeding and AAC assessment and implementation.

Adults – Functional communication, speech, language, fluency, dysphagia and mealtime management, neurodegenerative diseases, stroke and acquired brain injury rehabilitation.

Neuro-affirming supports to our large neurodivergent population of all age groups.

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role you will have:
• Current registration with Speech Pathology Australia as a Speech Pathologist
• A passion for collaborating in a multi-disciplinary team
• A desire to make a real difference within the community
• Experience delivering services under the NDIS
• Experience leading and supporting others

Additional Information

Click on the Apply button or to discuss this exciting opportunity, please reach out to Charlotte West on [email protected]

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You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.

• Leadership Opportunity: Yes
• State: SA
• Job Status: Full Time