Speech Pathologist Grade 2 - Acute

Speech Pathologist Grade 2
Full-time
Cabrini Malvern

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About Allied Health services
Allied Health, which represents twelve professions, is a rapidly expanding and highly integrated service at Cabrini. The department plays a vital role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across the organisation.

Cabrini Allied Health offers a wide range of opportunities, including senior consultant and leadership roles, clinical stream positions, junior staff rotation and support programs, professional development and teaching opportunities, and the cultivation of strong external and university partnerships.

The Role
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Speech Pathologist to join the Cabrini Speech Pathology team in a permanent full-time position based at Cabrini Malvern.

Working within our acute care team, you will provide high-quality assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders across a diverse patient population. This role requires a flexible clinician with broad acute care experience and a strong commitment to delivering evidence-based practice across the continuum of care.

The successful applicant will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred care. You will contribute to maintaining excellence in clinical practice, service quality, patient outcomes and staff engagement, while supporting Cabrini's commitment to exceptional patient care.

Key responsibilities:

• Assessment and management of adults with communication and swallowing disorders for a range of aetiologies in acute hospital setting
• Demonstrates current clinical knowledge of research, new developments and evidence-based practice in specific discipline.
• Compliance with our Triage policy in response time to referrals.
• Attend and contribute to staff meetings, including the identification of achievements, relevant issues and unmet needs.
• Participates in professional development programs.
• Involved in student education and training, staff supervision

About you
Along with your passion for speech pathology, you will require the following attributes:

• Membership/Eligibility for membership of Speech Pathology Australia
• Well consolidated post-graduate experience in the acute healthcare setting (min 2 years)
• Experience in the assessment and management of adults with communication and swallowing disorders for a range of aetiologies
• Demonstrated ability to consult and collaborate with others and work as an effective member of a team
• Excellent time management skills and high degree of flexibility
• Well-developed interpersonal skills, which include excellent communication skills
• Commitment to continuing professional development and clinical research
• Demonstrated ability to enhance the patient and family experience at Cabrini

What we offer:

• Salary packaging: up to $15,900 tax-free each year, plus $2650 meal & entertainment card benefits
• Convenience: Vibrant Malvern location, close to local shops, cafes and public transport
• Travel Perks: Myki Commuter discounted fares
• A commitment to health and well-being initiatives including discounted access to a wide range of gyms, pools, and fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• Access to a range of retail offers, discounted hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services

Interested? For further information, view the full position description here or contact: Nadine Lawson, Head Speech Pathology & Dietetics on 0411 122 ***

Apply early! This role may close sooner than the listed closing date if we find the right candidate - so don't wait to get your application in.

Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne's southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza and COVID-19 (recommended), plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested.