SENIOR SPEECH PATHOLOGIST - CHILD DEVELOPMENT UNIT

at  SA Government SA HEALTH

SA HEALTH

Job reference: 868622
Location: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
Job status: Ongoing

Eligibility: Open to Everyone

• Women’s and Children’s Health Network, Sub-Acute and Allied Health, Child Development Unit - North Adelaide (5006)
• Classification - AHP3 - Allied Health Professional L3 - $102, 641 to $110,094 pro rata
• Part Time 0.6 FTE - Ongoing Permanent

ABOUT US

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.
Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.
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We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Child Development Unit team as a Senior Speech Pathologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Delivering culturally appropriate, equitable, comprehensive, high quality and contemporary integrated care focused assessment services for infants, children, young people and their families of the Women’s and Children’s Health Network.
• Deliver advanced clinical services in the assessment of infants, children, and adolescents, and their families who present with complex neurodevelopmental differences.
• Functioning as a specialist clinical expert in the assessment of, and intervention planning for children within the multidisciplinary (medical and allied health) team.
• Formulating differential diagnoses of a child’s neurodevelopmental profile, drawing on knowledge, experience and skills in assessing children’s development, speech and language skills, pragmatic skills and social communication skills, and synthesizing information provided by parents/caregivers and others working and supporting the child.
• Acting as a key discipline contributing to the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, within a multidisciplinary team process

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Demonstrated competence in administering assessment tools in the diagnosis of communication delays and disorders.
• Ability to undertake specialist assessment of children with complex developmental problems and to understand highly complex clinical presentations by applying knowledge of child development processes, theory and practice.
• Minimum of 5 years clinical experience working as a paediatric speech pathologist.
• Demonstrated leadership and motivation skills, and in the evaluation of clinical services