Experienced Speech Pathologist - Adelaide

📣📣 Chat Well's Speech Pathology team is expanding! 📣📣

✨  Due to continued growth, we are looking for a passionate and innovative experienced Speech Pathologist to join our vibrant practice. ✨  Senior Speech Pathologists welcome to apply.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and growing Allied Health practice where you have the opportunity to influence Chat Well’s service provision strategy and make your MARK! ⚡

Full-Time or Part-Time - the choice is yours.

About You 😎

You are a qualified Speech Pathologist looking for a new and exciting opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge in working children and young people with speech and language difficulties, including autism spectrum disorder, developmental delays and disability. 

You are passionate and flexible in providing innovative, evidence based and client centred services to children and young people in a clinic setting.

You have strong interpersonal skills that allow you to develop collaborative relationships with clients, families and colleagues to empower children and young people to develop self-confidence, independence and a positive attitude towards learning. 

You are flexible in your approach to working with a variety of clients and their families, operating in an individualised way with each person. You enjoy working holistically with families and collaborate with other like-minded professionals to promote the best outcome for client.

Empowering children and their families with the skills to thrive and live a happier life is whatlights your fire and keeps you motivated to wake up every day. You strive to continue to do the best job in your job to make an extraordinary difference in the lives of your clients that you work with!

About the Opportunity 🔥

We offer a unique opportunity for an innovative and motivated Speech Pathologist to join our compassionate and experienced team in a permanent full-time or part-time capacity. 

We are a family friendly business and offer our team a range of flexible work options such as working from home and flexible hours to suit your needs. 

The role will involve a mix of working mainly in our Greenacres and Mawson Lakes clinic (face to face and telehealth) with some offsite (school, preschool and home visits) appointments. 

A typical caseload would likely include children and young people from 0-18 years with autism, developmental delays, language delays, speech difficulties, literacy challenges and stuttering. You will have the opportunity to work and collaborate with like-minded allied health, education and medical professionals to provide a holistic service for families.

We have a strong emphasis on empowering our team to reach their full potential professionally and personally. We will support you to develop a specialist clinical caseload or senior roles in your area of clinical expertise.

🌟 2024 Telstra Best of Business Building Communities SA Winner 
🌟 2024 Telstra Best of Business Championing Health SA Finalist 
🌟 2023 Pause Awards Women in Business Finalist 
🌟 2023 Australian Achiever Awards Care, Disability & Retirement Services National Winner
🌟 2022 SA Woman Awards The Empower Award Finalist

The above awards and recognition reflects our workplace environment that empowers our team to thrive and excel on their career path and make a difference in peoples' lives.

More about the role 📣

This role provides an opportunity for clinical specialisation and an individualised approach to negotiating the right balance of clinical and supervision/leadership tasks to suit the successful applicant. 

• Providing high quality, clinic and community-based speech pathology services to children and families
• Guiding service development and quality improvement within the clinic
• Developing projects that improve clinical practice or service delivery
• Program/plan therapy and groups for Allied Health Assistants to implement and/or develop into a Clinical Educator for student placements.

Depending on your experience or desire to grow:

• Providing clinical leadership and supervision to early career therapists including discipline specific meetings and individual supervision
• Directly supporting professional development across the team
• Providing high quality, clinic and community based speech pathology services to children and families
• Guiding service development and quality improvement within the clinic
• Developing projects that improve clinical practice or service delivery
• Assisting in service planning, providing clinical leadership, professional support and ensuring best practice standards for speech pathology services

About the Benefits 🌈

• Above award salary plus super. Travel reimbursements provided.
• Generous $1500 (FTE) training allowance for professional development (PD) courses.
• A primarily paediatric caseload with room to develop specialisation in your area of clinical expertise and interest.
• Full induction process with plenty of opportunities for observation and handover.
• Weekly whole team meetings and fortnightly clinical team meetings. 
• A fun, vibrant and energetic team who support each other with regular team social events within and outside of work.
• Admin time built into your day, so NO WORK after hours.
• We highly value work/life balance with opportunities for flexible working hours and working from office or home.
• $1000 bonus upon completion of your first 6 months.
• Unlimited snack treats and Nespresso coffee. 
• Limitless cuddles/ play and walks with our office dog, Chelsea.
• Additional annual leave upon your 2nd year anniversary.
• Full administrative support so you can concentrate on providing quality care to clients.
• Be provided with your own laptop and iPad and access a variety of clinic resources and assessments.
• You will have a high degree of autonomy and flexibility in how you allocate your time in this role.
• Be a part of a passionate and forward-thinking team and influence Chat Well’s service provision strategy.
• Contribute and upskill in other areas of Chat Well's growth including development of new services and groups, event management, social media and WHS etc.
• A relocation budget is available for the right candidate.

About Us 💁💁‍♀️

We are a client centred and strength based Allied Health practice that provides a holistic and meaningful approach to client care to deliver excellent client outcomes. We exist to empower children and young people with the skills they need to thrive and live a happier life. We work with our clients and their families across metropolitan Adelaide offering home, community and clinic-based therapy, as well as via teletherapy. We aim to empower children and young people with the skills to communicate and grow through individualised therapy, coaching and education, delivered in the most convenient setting for our clients.

At Chat Well Allied Health, we value you. We recognize you for your contributions, experience, skills and ideas and we work hard to invest in your professional and personal growth. We recognize that the skill, dedication and enthusiasm of our team is critical to our team’s success. We believe in nurturing and supporting our team so they feel valued and supported in making a difference to the lives of children and families that we work with. We work hard to create a positive and supportive team environment where each clinician can grow their clinical skills and enjoy a healthy work life balance.

✨ ✨ If this sounds like the position for you, then we would love to meet you! ✨ ✨

If you are ready to make a difference and share the same passion and enthusiasm as us, then give Liza a buzz on 8102 0118 to discuss, apply via SEEK or email your resume along with a cover letter detailing why you would like to be a part of our team to ****@chatwell.com.au.

Applications close on 16 May 2024.

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Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted.

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