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Salary- Northern Adelaide Local Health Network – Modbury Hospital – Modbury
- Salary: $86,950 - $100,729 p.a. (pro rata) – AHP2 - Ongoing Part-Time (Multiple Positions)
About Us:
The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) provides care for more than 400,000 people living in the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide and boasts newly redeveloped wards and Emergency and Outpatient Departments, with plans for the addition of more brand-new facilities in the near future. NALHN provides a full range of high-quality medical, surgical, maternity, diagnostic, emergency and support services. NALHN offers a range of primary health care services across the northern metropolitan area of Adelaide, with a focus on providing preventive and health promoting programs in the community, and transition and hospital substitution and avoidance programs targeted at chronic disease and frail aged.
With a workforce of almost 6,500 employees, NALHN works to ensure quality and timely delivery of health care, whilst building a highly skilled, engaged and resilient workforce based on a culture of collaboration, respect, integrity and accountability.
Our core values of respect, integrity and accountability underpin our commitment to provide excellence in care, innovation, creativity, leadership and equity in service provision and health outcomes to the Northern area communities.
At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.
Benefits of working at NALHN:
From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you’ll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.
Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.
Across SA Health there are always opportunities for you to develop your skills and career at any of our metropolitan or regional sites.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.
About You:
Are you a dedicated, compassionate and enthusiastic Speech Pathologist looking for an opportunity to join a dynamic, growing healthcare network where you will be part of a supportive team delivering high quality care to the community? If so, then this could be the opportunity for you. This position will offer you professional growth opportunities within a supportive and inclusive culture.
In this role you will have strong interpersonal and communication skills which will enable you to successfully problem solve, resolve conflicts and negotiate, including the ability to engage in difficult conversations, whilst building and maintaining relationships. An ability to effectively manage multiple, diverse and competing priorities and demonstrated resilience within a stressful and complex environment is essential to this role.
About the Role:
An exciting opportunity is presented to work within the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network as a Speech Pathologist within the Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care Division.
As a Speech Pathologist you will provide speech pathology assessment and intervention for the population of NALHN, with the aim of optimising health outcomes for all.
Speech Pathologists apply clinical experience, increasing clinical knowledge and professional competence to plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive and integrated speech pathology services to the needs of clients of NALHN.
In this role you will work under limited direct supervision and may provide direction and support to less experience Speech Pathologists, allied health assistants and students. You will work within multidisciplinary teams in inpatient, community, and outpatient settings. The overarching role is to provide a comprehensive holistic service to patients / consumers and their families, specifically for the treatment of any communication or swallowing impairments they may experience during their involvement with ACRPC.
Speech Pathology services are offered across a variety of inpatient, home-based and community settings within the Rehabilitation and Geriatric clinical services based at Modbury with some outreach community work. In this role you will have the opportunity to rotate through a number of clinical services:
- Geriatrics: Provision of speech pathology assessment, diagnosis and treatment for older adults while liaising with their families and carers. Areas of work include the inpatient Geriatric Evaluation Management service, the inpatient Geriatric Rehabilitation ward, Geriatrics in the Home, and Northern Reablement and Intermediate Care to Return Home (NRICH) program at ACH Healthia.
- Rehabilitation: Provision of speech pathology assessment, diagnosis and treatment for adults participating in rehabilitation. This may involve assessment and intervention for adults with a range of diagnoses including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, brain injury and deconditioning. Areas within rehabilitation include: the inpatient rehabilitation wards, the Day Rehabilitation Service (6 week rehabilitation program in an outpatient setting) and the Rehabilitation in the Home program.
As a Speech Pathologist you may also opt to be part of the weekend roster, working 4.5 hours on a Saturday based on the inpatient rehabilitation wards however, occasionally actioning referrals from the acute speech pathology team in the inpatient Short Stay Medical unit, ED, or Palliative Care.
The Speech Pathology team within ACRPC routinely assess swallow function with Videofluoroscopic Swallow Studies on site. In this role you will have knowledge of this specialist area or be willing to undergo training.
In this role you will work collaboratively with the Allied Health multi-disciplinary team and liaises directly with medical, nursing staff of NALHN and with other community agencies.
To be eligible for this position, you must hold an appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of the Speech Pathology Australia.
The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check.
Check(s)
- DHS Working With Children Check (WWCC)
- DHS Aged Care Sector Employment Screening
Immunisation Risk for this position is – Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances)
SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 857279
Enquiries
Jessica Whitefield
A/Senior Manager
Phone: (08) 7321 4***
E-mail: ***************@sa.gov.au
Application Closing Date
23 February 2024 - 11.55PM
Attachments
857279 - Speech Pathologist - Aged Care, Rehabilitation and Palliative Care (Multiple Positions) - AHP2 - role description.pdf
* Refer to the SA Health Career Website - How to apply for further information.
