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Form of work Wide range of paediatric hospital learning opportunities available
Acute infant and paediatric clinical caseload, specialising in oncology
Highly supportive team with excellent training opportunities
Embark on a rewarding career and be part of a team where your dedication makes a difference in people’s lives.
About Monash Children’s Hospital at Monash Health
Monash Children’s Hospital is one of Australia’s leading providers of integrated children’s health services, with more than 30 specialist services and programs. We have Victoria’s largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and provide leading paediatric services in many areas including Cleft, Rehabilitation, Oncology, ENT, Developmental Medicine, Paediatric Intensive Care. The Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) at Monash Children’s Hospital (MCH) cares for approximately 30% of Victoria’s childhood cancer patients. The CCC has an ambulatory care unit that is capable of providing complex cancer care across the disease continuum and also admits children with oncological conditions to the paediatric inpatient units within Monash Children’s.
Speech Pathologists at Monash Children’s Hospital sit within the Monash Children’s Hospital Allied Health Team, providing specialised assessment and management of infants and children within the hospital setting in the areas of communication and swallowing/feeding. Each team within Monash Children’s Hospital Allied Health is led by a Profession Lead who operationally reports to the Monash Children’s Allied Health Manager. This position is available 0.6 EFT permanently. There may be an opportunity to temporarily increase hours to full time for 12 months for the right applicant, if this desired.
A Day in the Life
As a Grade 2Speech Pathologist within Monash Children’s you will:
be responsible for providing speech pathology services to infants and children with oncological and other diagnoses within the acute hospital setting.
supervise Speech Pathologists and provide clinical education for students.
be part of a dynamic, evidence-based team and will be involved in service development and quality improvement projects in your clinical area to support high quality clinical care.
This position is based within Monash Children’s Hospital however travel to and work at any Monash Health site will be required. To see first-hand what our team of Speech Pathologists think about working at Monash Health, please take a look at the following short video: https://monashhealth.org/careers/allied-health/speech-pathology/ and please check out our You Tube link below.
What you need:
Relevant Speech Pathology qualification
Eligible for membership of Speech Pathology Australia
Experience in paediatrics in an acute setting (or other comparable settings)
Experience in teaching and training
Experience in quality improvement.
Demonstrated knowledge, skills and experience in either:
a) the provision of paediatric speech pathology services including assessment, intervention, case management and discharge planning in the hospital setting (clinical and educational) or
b) provision of speech pathology services to adult oncology patients with demonstrated transferrable skills
Great organisation and ability to work across caseloads
Great communication skills with patients, families and other multi-disciplinary team member
In Return:
We are a diverse team of Speech Pathologists working in a supportive and flexible department with close links to our community, NDIS and adult colleagues. We support career progression and professional development, with opportunities to grow your career in many different directions. You will have the opportunity to:
work within close multidisciplinary teams in the hospital setting, which provides a great opportunity for developing knowledge and skills across a range of medical areas. There is the opportunity to take part in multidisciplinary research forums, quality project implementation and clinical audits to improve care.
develop and run teaching sessions for the speech pathology team and for other multidisciplinary teams in the hospital, which is a great opportunity to build skills in teaching and also sharing your specialist knowledge about feeding and communication.
enhance your supervision and teaching skills by supporting the development of our junior Speech Pathologists as well as speech pathology students on placement with the team.
For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Annelies Tuohy on 0407028***.
Monash Health is a great place to work
To learn more about our organisation visit monashhealth.org.
To see first-hand what our colleagues think about working here, take a look at the following short videos: monashhealth.org/careers.
Monash Health is Victoria’s largest and most comprehensive health service. For more than 170 years, Monash Health and its predecessors have provided safe, high-quality healthcare for people at every life stage. With 25,500 employees, we provide care to south-eastern metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria from over 40 locations, via telehealth, within local communities and in people’s homes.
We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity. We are committed to patient safety, promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace and to Child Safe Standards. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles and our five ICare values.
How to Apply
Applications are accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System (e-recruit).
