Speech Pathology

Lead with Purpose: Advanced Speech Pathologist – Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services
Step into a leadership role where your expertise in Speech Pathology will directly shape outcomes across Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services. Lead innovation, guide clinical excellence, and mentor the next generation of practitioners in a supportive, multidisciplinary environment
About Your Role
As the Advanced Clinical Leader – Speech Pathology, you will provide high-level clinical expertise and professional leadership across the Child and Youth Mental Health Service.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Delivering advanced clinical services for complex cases across multiple sites.
• Providing professional governance and supervision to Speech Pathologists and allied health staff.
• Leading quality improvement and research initiatives to enhance patient care.
• Overseeing workload management, workforce planning, and service reporting.
• Fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Representing Speech Pathology within interprofessional networks and strategic discussions.

About You
You are a confident clinical leader and passionate advocate for excellence in communication and mental health care.

You Will Have

• Tertiary qualification in Speech Pathology and eligibility for membership with Speech Pathology Australia.
• Advanced clinical knowledge and experience in assessment and treatment of complex clients.
• Proven leadership in supervising and developing professional teams.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead quality improvement, research, or service redesign initiatives.
• Ability to manage operational priorities, staffing, and workload allocation.
• Current Class C driver's licence and ability to work across multiple Metro South sites.

What We Can Offer You

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• 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.

Metro South Addiction And Mental Health Services
Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services provide inpatient, hospital-based and community mental health and community alcohol and drug services for all age groups across a number of campuses .

We embrace a forward looking, progressive approach and work collaboratively with all stakeholders in order to achieve expected outcomes. A clear and strong consumer and carer focus is promoted with our vision being to provide our community excellence in consumer centred, integrated care across the continuum of addiction (alcohol and drug) and mental health services.

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