Join Metro South's Adolescent Day Program and be at the forefront of delivering high-quality, recovery-focused speech pathology care to young people navigating complex mental health challenges. This senior role offers the opportunity to lead clinical practice, mentor emerging clinicians, and shape service improvements within a passionate multidisciplinary team dedicated to making a lasting impact.

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Your new role:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Speech Pathologist to deliver high-quality, evidence-based clinical services within the Adolescent Day Program (ADP) and/or the Acute Adolescent Mental Health Unit at Logan Hospital. Key responsibilities include:

• Providing comprehensive speech pathology assessment, intervention, and evaluation within a multidisciplinary team for adolescents with complex mental health needs.
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement, and clinical education initiatives to advance speech pathology practices and optimize patient care.
• Supervising and mentoring less experienced clinicians, students, and Allied Health Assistants to foster professional growth and maintain clinical standards.
• Collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams, clients, families, and external agencies to ensure holistic, patient-centred care and effective discharge planning.

About you:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Extensive clinical expertise in delivering speech pathology services within adolescent mental health settings, with strong evidence-based practice skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to effectively engage multidisciplinary teams, clients, carers, and external stakeholders, including conflict resolution skills.
• Proven experience managing complex caseloads, prioritizing clinical demands, and facilitating patient discharge planning in a fast-paced environment.
• Leadership capabilities in supervising and supporting junior clinicians, students, and allied health staff to enhance team performance and professional development.

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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.

About us:

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• MS08650877 RD (PDF, 470KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 415KB)
  Information Package for Applicants