Speech Pathologist (Senior)

Make your expertise in Speech Pathology matter

Bring your senior Speech Pathology expertise to a leading tertiary service at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Join a highly collaborative team delivering complex, evidence-based care across acute, spinal cord injury and specialist outpatient services, while contributing to education, supervision and service improvement.

About This Role

Your new role:

As a Senior Speech Pathologist within the Acute Speech Pathology team at Princess Alexandra Hospital, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical services within a highly functioning interprofessional environment. You'll manage a diverse and complex caseload while contributing to clinical education, supervision, quality improvement and service development.

You Will

Deliver senior Speech Pathology services across acute inpatient, spinal cord injury and specialist outpatient settings, including assessment, intervention and evaluation.Provide clinical advice, supervision and training to less experienced clinicians, students and Allied Health Assistants.

About You

You are an experienced Speech Pathologist who thrives in a complex clinical environment and can bring sound clinical judgement, strong communication and a commitment to evidence-based practice. You will be confident working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams and supporting the development of colleagues and students.

We're Looking For Someone Who Can Demonstrate

Strong clinical judgement, prioritisation and discharge planning skills in a complex environment.Excellent communication, collaboration and clinical advisory skills, including the ability to manage conflict effectively.

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

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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.