NDIS Speech Pathologist

Area

Sylvania – 45min radius from base area

Permanent – full time or part time

Therapy Team Leader

• NDIS participants/families, NDIS Stakeholders such as Support Coordinators and other professionals.

• Plan, deliver and evaluate Speech Pathology services to NDIS participants which help them achieve their NDIS goals.
• Support NDIS participants’ inclusion and participation in the community
• Provide services and supports in collaboration with key stakeholders
• Demonstrate an understanding and ability to provide services and supports within the parameters of the participant’s available NDIS funding
• Participate in regular professional development opportunities to keep up with current developments
• When assigned, supervise and train assistants, volunteers and students, ensuring the maintenance of professional, clinical, ethical and safety standards
• Ensure compliance with PRS duty of care (code of practice)
• Ensure services meet quality service standards and NDIS guidelines

• Bachelor of Applied Science (Speech Pathology)

• Demonstrate an understanding of the typical development and continuum of function of communication and eating/swallowing mechanisms
• Demonstrate understanding of common daily activities, routines and habits and how they will be impacted by communication and eating/swallowing issues
• Demonstrate awareness of the effects of seating/positioning on body tone and controlled movement and its relationship to eating/swallowing and communication
• Demonstrate an understanding of the different approaches and options for saliva control
• Demonstrate an understanding of the communicative function of behaviour in participants that have complex needs
• Demonstrate an understanding of gastro-oesophageal reflux and its implications for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities
• Demonstrate an understanding of common conditions that can effect eating, swallowing and communication for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities
• Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of an individual’s environment and their communication partners on communication success
• Demonstrate the ability to prescribe communication equipment appropriate to the individual with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities

• A commitment to a person-centred approach
• Excellent skills in collaboration and demonstrated skills in working in a multi-disciplinary team
• A commitment to the inclusion and participation of people who have a disability within their local and natural communities
• The ability to work independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A commitment to ongoing development of skills and capabilities
• A commitment to using evidence as a basis for practice.

• NDIS Worker Screening Clearance
• Working with Children’s check
• Current Driver’s license
• Current AHPRA registration