NDIS Speech Pathologist

4 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia PRS Support Full time

Area

Sylvania – 45min radius from base area

Employment Contract

Permanent – full time or part time

Reports To:

Therapy Team Leader

External Relationships:

- NDIS participants/families, NDIS Stakeholders such as Support Coordinators and other professionals.

Key Accountabilities, Responsibilities & Deliverables

- Plan, deliver and evaluate Speech Pathology services to NDIS participants which help them achieve their NDIS goals.
- Support NDIS participants’ inclusion and participation in the community
- Provide services and supports in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Demonstrate an understanding and ability to provide services and supports within the parameters of the participant’s available NDIS funding
- Participate in regular professional development opportunities to keep up with current developments
- When assigned, supervise and train assistants, volunteers and students, ensuring the maintenance of professional, clinical, ethical and safety standards
- Ensure compliance with PRS duty of care (code of practice)
- Ensure services meet quality service standards and NDIS guidelines

Qualifications & Knowledge/Experience

- Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology)

Technical Competencies

- Demonstrate an understanding of the typical development and continuum of function of communication and eating/swallowing mechanisms
- Demonstrate understanding of common daily activities, routines and habits and how they will be impacted by communication and eating/swallowing issues
- Demonstrate awareness of the effects of seating/positioning on body tone and controlled movement and its relationship to eating/swallowing and communication
- Demonstrate an understanding of the different approaches and options for saliva control
- Demonstrate an understanding of the communicative function of behaviour in participants that have complex needs
- Demonstrate an understanding of gastro-oesophageal reflux and its implications for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities
- Demonstrate an understanding of common conditions that can effect eating, swallowing and communication for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities
- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of an individual’s environment and their communication partners on communication success
- Demonstrate the ability to prescribe communication equipment appropriate to the individual with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities

Behavioural Competencies

- A commitment to a person-centred approach
- Excellent skills in collaboration and demonstrated skills in working in a multi-disciplinary team
- A commitment to the inclusion and participation of people who have a disability within their local and natural communities
- The ability to work independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A commitment to ongoing development of skills and capabilities
- A commitment to using evidence as a basis for practice.

Licenses and Accreditations

- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance
- Working with Children’s check
- Current Driver’s license
- Current AHPRA registration

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