Senior Speech Pathologist

Senior Role supporting New Grads and Junior Clinicians

Ongoing Training, Development & Personalised CPD

Specialised Office Support to Assist with Admin and Scheduling

Rewarding and Diverse Adult, Community Caseload

Flexible Working Hours to Suit Your Work-Life Balance - FT or PT or Contract

Our "Why"

Recovery Station exists to empower people to live a quality life. We believe in creating the ideal work environment for you because when you are happy, healthy, well-skilled and fulfilled, you're in the best position to have a positive impact on the wellbeing of everyone around you.

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

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Speech Pathologist to provide localised leadership and support to our Hunter based Speech Pathology team. You will balance maintaining your own reduced caseload along with supporting new Grads and early career clinicians.

We would love someone to join us who enjoys providing supervision, being a go-to person for questions, can shadow junior speechies in initial or more challenging appointments, and who's keen to grow as a leader within our business.

As a community- based clinicians, 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 cafe 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 ideal for someone who enjoys genuine flexibility and control over how you structure your days and therefore you don't miss your afternoon sport or being able to do the school run with your kids.

Logistically, we have a waterfront office 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 Maitland, Newcastle or Lake Macquarie.

Qualifications & Experience

• Approved qualification in Speech Pathology and SPA registration
• Current driver's license with use of own vehicle
• NDIS Workers Screening and WWCC
• Prior managerial or supervisory experience

How We Make an Impact

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.

Together, our passionate multidisciplinary team of OTs, Mental Health OT's, Psychologists, Speech Pathologists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Dietitians and Allied Health Assistants collaboratively share their knowledge and experience to holistically design an individualised service to help improve the quality of life for people living with a disability or looking to age as independently as possible.

Who Your Work Helps

Your caseload will consist of people over 16yrs of age, who may have a range of disabilities (e.g. intellectual disability, Autism, Down Syndrome), neurological events (e.g. stroke, acquired brain injury, brain tumour), and/or a degenerative disease (e.g. Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Huntington's Disease, dementia).

You will assist people out 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.

The skills you will develop and demonstrate in the role:

• Utilise dedicated time in your diary to assist junior clinicians achieve their goals or to answer ad hoc enquiries
• Showcase a high level of professional judgement and knowledge to provide a wide range of speech and language supports to adolescent and adult clients
• Assess the communication and mealtime management abilities of clients utilising a range of assessment techniques and tools
• Design intervention plans that are holistic, client-centric and outcomes driven
• Provide support, education and assistance to clients, carers and families with the implementation of intervention plans and programs

With our training and support you will become confident as a leader, as well as 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.

How We Foster a Positive Team

• We value flexibility so you can fit us in around your personal life eg family, sport, volunteering or another part-time role.
• Remuneration that matches your experience plus the option to stretch for RDO's and financial 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
• 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
• Ability to transfer between offices if you move one day
• You'll have an office filled with clinical resources (plus snacks to fuel you too)
• Discounted Health Insurance for you and your family plus other everyday savings on your Energy Bill, online shopping, groceries and more
• An Employee Assistance Program is available to provide external, confidential support
• To bring us together as a team, we have a fun wellbeing program that involves monthly social events. Previously we've gone to mini golf, ten pin bowling, wheelchair basketball, made dumplings, candles and gingerbread houses, painted and celebrated important dates such as International Women's Day and mental health month and much more

From a professional development perspective:

• You will initially receive a thorough orientation consisting of in-house training + ongoing in-field shadowing days with our amazing Head of Discipline for Speech and also our Clinical Manager
• Moving forward you will benefit from one on one meetings with your manager to design your own personal learning plan, which will be a roadmap to help you achieve your goals eg develop Neuro knowledge or receive more tailored leadership training
• Your one on ones will be complemented with monthly team meetings with your fellow Speechies so you can learn and present during in-services sessions, share ideas, resources and stay abreast of any industry updates
• Access additional training content anytime via our online resource library
• Two days paid CPD leave per annum to access external training
• Formal and informal liaison opportunities with other members of our MDT to broaden your clinical knowledge and provide holistic care to our clients
• Annual companywide training conference where we bring the entire business together and invite external presenters for each discipline

The Next Steps

We hope the above has moved you to want to learn more about us, our mission and how you could bring your uniqueness to our team. There's more of us available on our social media and Youtube in case you'd like to see some highlights or day to day life at Recovery Station.

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