Speech Pathologist

Advance your career in Speech Pathology with a leading tertiary hospital.
Join our supportive, multidisciplinary team at Princess Alexandra Hospital and grow your career while delivering evidence-based care.
Your New Role
In this role, you will provide high-quality Speech Pathology services for adult patients with acquired communication and swallowing disorders across the continuum of care. Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering patient-centred assessment, intervention, education and discharge planning within an interprofessional team.
• Managing an allocated caseload by applying effective time management, prioritisation skills, and accurate record-keeping.
• Supporting service delivery with clinical education, supervision of students and allied health assistants.
• Contributing to quality improvement and research activities under the guidance of senior staff.

About You
You will be a motivated and collaborative professional who is passionate about improving patient outcomes. You will demonstrate this by:

• Providing evidence-based and compassionate care with strong clinical judgement and ethical practice.
• Working effectively with patients, carers, and interprofessional colleagues through high-level communication and interpersonal skills.
• Building your clinical expertise by actively engaging in professional development and learning opportunities.
• Supporting others by contributing to education, supervision, and service improvement initiatives.

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What We Can Offer You

• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
• Opportunities to expand your expertise by working across diverse clinical areas including stroke, trauma, critical care, head and neck cancer, and rehabilitation.
• A supportive and inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, learning and career progression.
• Flexible work arrangements to support your work-life balance.

Princess Alexandra Hospital
The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

Princess Alexandra Hospital , a place of countless opportunities to learn and grow your career

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We Are Metro South Health
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.

We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.

We are better together .

Occupational group
Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support