Speech Pathologist Senior Inpatients

Lead, Inspire & Make an Impact in Acute Speech Pathology

Join Logan Hospital as a Senior Speech Pathologist and provide expert clinical care across ICU, ED, stroke, cancer, medical and surgical services.

About This Role

Your new role:

As a Senior Speech Pathologist at Logan Hospital, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based Speech Pathology services across a diverse range of acute inpatient settings, including ICU, ED, MAPU, stroke, cancer care, and medical and surgical wards. Working as part of a highly collaborative multidisciplinary team, you will use your advanced clinical judgement to manage complex presentations, provide expert advice and contribute to positive patient outcomes.

You will also play an important role in developing our Speech Pathology service, supporting the growth of less experienced clinicians and students, and contributing to education, quality improvement and research initiatives.

Provide senior clinical assessment, intervention and management for complex acute presentations.Provide expert clinical advice to Speech Pathology and multidisciplinary team members.Support effective discharge planning, clinical handover and continuity of care.Supervise and support HP3 clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.

About You

You are an experienced Speech Pathologist who thrives in a complex acute environment and is confident managing a varied workload across multiple clinical areas. You bring strong clinical reasoning, communication and leadership skills, along with a commitment to evidence-based practice and improving patient outcomes.

Strong clinical reasoning and independent decision-making for complex cases.Excellent workload management, prioritisation and discharge planning skills.The ability to provide expert clinical advice within multidisciplinary teams.Experience supporting clinicians and students to develop their skills.A commitment to quality improvement, research and service development.

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What We Can Offer You

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 roleYou'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.

About Us

Logan Hospital is the major health centre for one of the fastest growing areas in Queensland. We offer a range of services, including medical, rehabilitation, maternity, surgical and paediatric care.

We offer our staff and students extensive support and training in most medical specialties. As a teaching hospital, we help train future health care professionals and participate in research through strong partnerships with Queensland's leading medical schools, universities, and TAFE Queensland.

Our services will continue to grow as we build bigger and better facilities to support the community. By 2027, we'll have more beds and 5 more birthing suites as part of the Logan Hospital expansion.

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.