Speech Pathologist

About the role

Reach out today about joining our team

- Community Role with Diverse Adult and Adolescent Clients

- Training, Development & Tailored CPD to assist you to be your best

- Flexible Working Hours to Suit Your Work-Life Balance

- Personalised, One on One Admin Support + RDO + Bonus

- Opportunities available in Newcastle, Toronto or Maitland

About Recovery Station

Recovery Station provides community and clinic based allied health services, with a strong focus on disability and senior health. For 20 years we have grown and now proudly offer services in the community across Sydney, the Hunter, Central Coast, Tamworth and nationally via telepractice.

- We love what we do because everyone’s role contributes to helping our clients live a more independent, empowered life

- Collaborating with passionate, likeminded colleagues creates connection and facilitates personal and professional growth

- Keeping personalised care at the heart of what we do challenges us to seek new and innovative ways to deliver life-changing service

Joining Recovery Station means aligning with a company that believes in empowering youand your future.

Your day-to-day

As a community- based role, we predominantly see our clients either in their homes, group homes, aged care facilities or in a public setting that's relevant for them eg in a café to test out some new AAC. We want to see our clients where they are most comfortable whilst also giving you a diverse role full of variety and learning opportunities. Some of our team schedule a full day of seeing clients one day, then balance this with a work from home day or an office day to write reports, prepare resources, have supervision / training. Or you can mix things up depending how you like to work. A community role is great as it allows you to have genuine flexibility and control over how you structure your days and therefore you don't miss your afternoon sport or being able to drop the kids to school in the mornings / pick them up in the afternoons Logistically, we have a clinic in Toronto with convenient free parking and the role can be structured as full-time or part-time. Depending where you are based, we can tailor your caseload to service clients around the Hunter, Newcastle or Lake Macquarie. You will have someone assigned to you in admin to assist with scheduling appointments and they will work with you to ensure you aren't zigzagging around and you'll have clients to see close to home. We are also currently supporting cliniciansrelocate to Australia and register withSPA so reach out and ask about it The caseload is people over 16yrs of age, and includes those with a range of disabilities (e.g. intellectual disability, Autism, Down Syndrome), neurological events (e.g. stroke, acquired brain injury, brain tumour), and degenerative disease (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Huntington’s Disease, dementia). You will service individuals with complex needs in the community and within group homes (including speech, language and swallowing assessments and therapy, mealtime management plans). You will have the opportunity to provide assessment, therapy and management to clients with a range of speech pathology diagnosis including: non-verbal, dysphagia, dyspraxia, aphasia, pragmatics, voice clients.

- A high level of professional judgement and knowledge to provide a wide range of speech and language supports to adolescent and adults with a variety of needs

- Assess the communication and mealtime management abilities of the client utilising a range of assessment techniques and tools

- Design intervention plans that are holistic, client-centric and outcomes driven

- Provide support and assist clients, carers and families with the implementation of intervention plans and programs

With our training and support you will become confident in developing care plans and writing comprehensive reports based on your advanced clinical understanding, application of various clinical assessments and implementation of appropriate interventions to address prioritised needs. To be considered for this role, you must be registered with SPA, possess a driver’s licence with access to your own reliable vehicle and be willing to access a Working with Children Check and NDIS Workers Screening. We are also requesting that the successful candidate be comfortable following NSW Health COVID and flu vaccination requirements.

Here's how we support you

- We valueflexibility so you can fit us in around your personal life eg family, sport, other work.

- You deserve remuneration that matches your experience plus the option to stretch forRDO’s andfinancial bonuses if you choose

- We trust you to work from home, or in the office, via telehealth and we give you a laptop and pay a phone/ data allowance to support this + laundry allowance and uniform

- A member of our administrative team will assist you with scheduling your appointments efficiently to minimise travel, to make calls and take messages for you whilst you're in sessions and to assist with the maintenance of compliance documentation, such as setting up and adjusting funding plans

- Travel is reimbursed at $0.99/km + tolls and parking at appointments

- Novated leasing options

- DiscountedHealth Insurance for you and your family

- AnEmployee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support

- To celebrate success and bring us together as a team, we have a fun wellbeing program that involves monthly social events such as ourMental Health Games, cooking and art classes, trivia and barefoot bowls

Your career development

- Your thorough Orientation will be supported by ongoing one on ones with your Supervisor to discuss goals personal to you via a CPD plan. For example do you want to learn aboutAAC or servicing Neuro clients? This is when you can chat about what you'd personally like to achieve

- These will be complimented with team meetings with your fellow OT's so you can learn during in-service sessions, share ideas, resources and stay abreast of any industry updates

- We love facilitatingdevelopment pathways for clinicians seekingcareer progressionand added responsibility via either supervising students/ grads/ junior staff, increased complexity ofeload or involvement in management procedures depending on what avenue you'd like to explore

- Two dayspaid CPDleave per annum

- Formal and informal liaison opportunities with other members ofour MDT to broaden your clinical knowledge and provide holistic care to our clients

- All-company training day where we bring the entire business together and invite external presenters for each discipline

The next step

We hope the above has moved you to want to learn more about us, our mission and how you could fit into our team. If we haven't covered something that’s important to you, contact us today on 0493 469 501 or at careers@recoverystation.com.au.

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