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Speech Pathology Clinical Assistant

1 month ago


Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

About the role
Permenant Part Time opportunity to contribute to the Speech Pathology Department and multidisciplinary teams at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) to facilitate patient flow and earlier safe patient discharge by:

- Providing therapy support to patients with swallowing and/or communication deficits delegated under the supervision of a speech pathologist. This includes direct intervention with individuals and their significant others as well as activities within a group setting.
- Independent provision of clinical support tasks including development of patient-related resources and management of equipment as delegated by the speech pathologist.
- Completion of administrative clinical support tasks ensuring the efficient operation of the speech pathology service.

This role supports a weekend service and will be allocated either a Fri
- Mon, Fri-Sat or Sun-Mon shift pattern (or as negotiated).
About you
- Provision of individual and group activities as directed by the speech pathologist (including computer or device-based therapy programs and communication/swallowing exercise programs), to inpatients with diverse medical conditions that have been identified for weekend and Monday discharge from hospital.
- Communicate effectively with patients, speech pathologists, other hospital staff and work collaboratively as part of the healthcare team within the boundaries and scope of the role.
- Initiate, plan, coordinate and evaluate in quality improvement activities regarding clinical assistant functions and participate in department activities as delegated.
- Exercise clinical observations and judgment in the provision of patient care activities, within the hyper
- and acute hospital setting utilizing prioritization guidelines with support of the speech pathologist.
- Provision of comprehensive education to patients and/or families as delegated by the speech pathologist with mínimal direct supervision.

Health Equity
It is expected that all Metro North Health staff, including the incumbent of this role as a valuable member of the Metro North workforce, contribute to the health equity agenda and meet the intent of supporting the defined six actions that specifically meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people within the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards (NSQHS), by actively supporting the elimination of racial discrimination and institutional racism; supporting increased access to health care; influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health; supporting the delivery of sustainable, culturally safe and responsive health services; and recognise the importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review the health and support services we provide.
Benefits when working for us
- Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
- Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
- Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
- Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

**Job ad reference number**: RBH567812Close date: 10/06/2024
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTEDThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.


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