Join our Early Childhood and Families Team

The Early Childhood team Speech Pathologist is an integral part of a multidisciplinary team working alongside Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychologists and Therapeutic Care Staff, providing assessment and therapeutic developmental services to children 0-4 years and their families in the Southern metropolitan region of Adelaide. Individual, joint and group work is offered to support developmental skills in children and their carers/families.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Allied Health Service Manager, Child Development and the Advanced Clinician, Speech Pathologist W&C, some of your duties as the AHP2 Speech pathologist may involve:

• Providing services to the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network (SALHN) as part of the multidisciplinary team. The team focuses primarily on children, birth to preschool entry and their families. 
• Developing, providing and evaluating high quality Speech Pathology services with an early childhood focus within an inter and transdisciplinary contact. Services will include assessment and therapeutic intervention.
• Informing the Allied Health Service Manager and the Clinical Lead Speech Pathology - Early Childhood & Family of any issues to do with the development, management and evaluation of Speech Pathology and Early Childhood and Family Services. 

About you:

• Appropriate Degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of Speech Pathology Australia. 
• Previous experience working with vulnerable children and their families. 
• Demonstrated ability to relate well to, work with and support children 6 weeks to school age and their families from various cultures and backgrounds, often in complex vulnerable families. 
• Demonstrated ability to critically and reflectively evaluate own work and maintain own professional development to meet requirements. 
• Ability to prioritise and organise a large, complex caseload under limited direction. 

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Deb Joseph, Senior Speech Pathologist, (08) 7425 8200, Deborah.Joseph@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Thursday 31st July 2025

Attachments:

• 910574 AHP2 Speech Pathologist - Role Description.pdf
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 910574