Speech Pathologist

Grow Your Speech Pathology Career at Princess Alexandra Hospital

Join the Speech Pathology team at Princess Alexandra Hospital and make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults with communication and swallowing disorders. Work within a supportive multidisciplinary team, build your clinical expertise, and contribute to quality improvement, education and patient-centred care across the continuum.

As a Speech Pathologist at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you'll provide evidence-based assessment and intervention for adults with acquired communication and swallowing disorders. Working alongside a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll have the opportunity to grow your clinical expertise while delivering compassionate, person-centred care across a diverse acute hospital setting.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver comprehensive assessment, intervention and management of communication and swallowing disorders using evidence-based practice.
• Manage a varied clinical caseload, contributing to patient education, discharge planning and continuity of care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients and their families.
• Support the education of students and allied health assistants while developing your own clinical skills through supervision and professional development.

You're a compassionate and motivated Speech Pathologist who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. You enjoy working collaboratively, embrace continuous learning and are committed to helping patients achieve the best possible outcomes.

You'll bring:

• Experience, or the ability to deliver, evidence-based assessment and management of adults with communication and swallowing disorders.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with patients, families and multidisciplinary teams.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise a busy and varied caseload.
• A commitment to professional development, quality improvement and evidence-based practice.
• The ability to supervise and support students and allied health assistants while contributing positively to a collaborative team culture.

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• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

The Speech Pathology Department specialises in the assessment and management of inpatients and outpatients with acquired communication disorders, swallowing disorders, voice disorders, laryngectomy and other head and neck surgery across the continuum of care. Speech Pathology services and related clinical competency development align with the aetiologies of head and neck cancer and surgery, critical care and neurosciences, traumatic brain and spinal injury and stroke/neurological disease and aging. Services are mainly provided in the following clinical units - Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (BIRU), Geriatric and Rehabilitation wards, ENT/Plastics, Radiation Oncology, Hyperacute Stroke Unit, Neurosciences Unit, Internal Medicine, Orthopaedics/Trauma, ICU and Spinal Injuries Unit and associated specialist outpatients and Day Hospitals. 

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.