Are you a graduate Speech Pathologist? Are you looking for a lifestyle change? Does a friendly rural community appeal to you? Do you live in Kerang or the surrounding areas and have thought you would like to work with Northern District Community Health? This role may be the perfect catalyst to make that first step into your new career.
The Speech Pathologist reports to the Allied Health Team Leader. As a Speech Pathologist, you will deliver speech therapy to young children aged up to school age in individual centre-based sessions. Children in this program do not need a GP referral but instead can be referred in via community-based organisations such as Maternal and Child Health Services or parent/carer referrals as well as NDIS participants utilising their NDIS planned funds.
This role would be supported by another full-time highly experienced Speech Pathologist, Allied Health Team as well as the broader NDCH team.
About This Role
To provide speech pathology services within their individual scope of practice for a range of funding and service guidelines including but not limited to: the Victorian Department of Health; My Aged Care; NDIS; fee for service; including goal setting, assessment, therapy and evaluation to the community (including NDIS Participants) as part of an interdisciplinary team.
About You
• Tertiary qualifications in Speech Pathology as recognised by Speech Pathology Australia.
• Qualified Speech Pathologist as recognised by Speech Pathology Australia.
• Training in and understanding of the Victorian Early Years Learning & Development Framework. Training may be provided by NDCH if not already attained.
• Current working with children, police check & NDIS screening check
To Apply
s are available at www.ndch.org.au. For further information contact General Manager of Community Health Alexia Stephens on 03 5451 0200.
To apply for the position an Application Letter and a Resume including responses to the Selection Criteria are to be sent to:
Margaret McDonald Interim CEO
careers@ndch.org.au
Closing date: Friday 10th May 2024
N orthern District Community Health is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
