Paediatric Speech Pathologist - West

Paediatric Speech Pathologist [Grade 2]

Location:                 West (Sunshine, Newport)
Vacancy Type:         Permanent - Part-time/Full-Time
Job reference:         494525

Salary Range:         $85,380.74 - $104,551.89 (depends on experience) + superannuation + salary packaging

Are you an established Speech Pathologist seeking a fulfilling, flexible new role? Could you provide exceptional support for Yooralla’s clilents to achieve their goals, do you like working as part of a multidisciplinary team and do you share our values? Then, why not join the passionate Yooralla allied health team?

A therapy role with Yooralla offers:

• The opportunity to support children and young people with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.


• Excellent formal and informal professional development opportunities – including opportunities to develop clinical, administration and management/leadership skills; a generous professional development allowance and paid study leave.


• Communities of practice to support professional networking and development – you’ll be working with the support of a large, multidisciplinary/transdisciplinary team of therapists, with structured ongoing clinical supervision from Senior Clinicians.


• A supportive employer who understands the need for work/life balance and flexibility in your workplace (including flexibility in hours and location of work). Our allied health positions can be undertaken full-time or part-time, and we will support you to balance your lifestyle goals with providing excellent care to our clients.


• Administration and logistical support - including administrative staff and team leaders to assist with intake, NDIS coordination and billing.


• A competitive salary, including salary packaging, and generous paid leave entitlements for personal, caring or parental purposes (15 days personal and/or carer’s leave and 12 week’s primary carer parental leave).

About the role

Yooralla has multiple vacancies in Sunshine Or Newport for passionate, positive relationship builder, with experience working with a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model to join our team as a permanent, full-time or part-time, Paediatric Speech Pathologist. This fulfilling role will provide best practice, evidence-based speech pathology services across the scope of practice to children with a disability to achieve their goals and live the life they choose.

Your working days will involve:

• providing support, resources and information as part of the key worker model, to meet the family’s individual needs in a range of settings such as home, childcare, kindergarten or school.


• using a family centred approach and drawing on the skills of the larger team to develop goals and strategies with the family to support their identified priorities.


• working part of an interdisciplinary team of Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Psychologists


• providing indirect client service/family coordination to support client goals


• working with clients and families with complex needs


• managing your own caseload and appointments


• driving to homes and community settings within a 30 minute radius


• flexible working schedule and environment e.g. home, office, community

About You

You’ll be an established and enthusiastic Speech Pathologist with a tertiary qualification, be a member of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA), have good interpersonal skills, and ability to engage with families using a family centered, key worker approach. You’ll have an ability to work collaboratively with a team to support clients and families.

To be successful in this role you’ll share Yooralla’s values and have:

• experience working within a transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary team model


• the ability to build positive relationships with clients and their families


• the opportunity to build on your clinical practice – including the ability to self-reflect and a focus on developing clinical skills in areas you’re not familiar with


• care for the work you do and for the people you work with


• competency in a variety of IT platforms, particularly client management systems


• good verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills


• an Australian driver’s licence and own vehicle, and a willingness to travel across western suburbs as required

Appointment is subject to pre-employment checks including the NDIS Worker Screening Check, Inherent Position Requirements Employee Declaration, Working with Children’s Check, Reference Checks, Speech Pathology Australia membership, etc.

Sound like you? Apply Now!