• Women’s and Children’s Health Network - Allied Health and Aboriginal Liaison
• Speech Pathologist - Central Early Childhood and Family Services (CECFS) - North Adelaide
• Salary – $88,255 - $102,240 p.a - More than one Full Time vacancy – Ongoing/ Permanent – AHP2

 About the Opportunity

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the Allied Health and Aboriginal Liaison team as a Speech Pathologist, where you will be responsible for:

• Provides Speech Pathology services as part of the WCHN Central Early Childhood and Family Service multidisciplinary team. The team focuses primarily on children, birth to preschool entry and their families.
• The position is required to develop, provide and evaluate high quality speech pathology services with an early childhood developmental focus within a multi-disciplinary context. Services will include assessment and therapeutic intervention with children from birth to pre-school entry/eligibility and their families.
• Office location is in North Adelaide, with clients being seen at our outreach locations: Lockleys Children's Centre, Parks Children's Centre, Woodville CaFHS site, Adelaide CaFHS site (please note, the CECFS team is located at these sites only, and is not a part of the CaFHS service or Children's Centre site service).

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have the ability to:

• Undertake reflective practice
• Manage a complex and varied workload including individual and group work in the early childhood field
• Relate well to, work with and support children of birth to preschool entry and their families from various cultures and backgrounds, often in complex vulnerable families.
• Experience working with the application of attachment theory to therapeutic individual and group programs
• Previous experience working with vulnerable children and their families

 What WCHN Can Offer You

• Relocation financial support may be negotiated, subject to eligibility. Click here for details and contact the enquires person for further information.
• Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
• Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
• Free Public Transport for SA Health Metropolitan Hospital Workers.
• Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
• Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

 About Us

The Women’s & Children’s Health Network is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia.  We offer:

• specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
• state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
• community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
• specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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 Special Conditions

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

 Application Instructions

You will be required to attach a 1-2 page cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role and a current résumé/curriculum vitae prior to clicking 'Submit Application'. It is recommended to allow enough time to complete the whole application as the system times out after one hour of inactivity. It is highly recommended that interested applicants contact the Team Leader listed below to gain further information about the position before submitting their application. 

 Other Important Information

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time.  Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Want further information on applying and winning this role, go to our SA Health Careers Site for the Australian Applicant Guide or if you are an international applicant, check out the International Application Guide.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply. Job Ref: 879961

Enquiries to: Renae Sifkus

Phone: 8161 7381
Position: Team Leader, Central Early Childhood and Families Service
E-mail: renae.sifkus@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: Monday, 14th October 2024 – 11:55pm

Useful Links

AHP2 - Speech Pathologist - CECFS AHAL - Role Description - 879961.pdf