Lead Advanced Speech Pathology in Geriatric & Rehab Care

Join a leading tertiary hospital as an Advanced Speech Pathologist, providing expert clinical care while leading and developing a high-performing GARU Speech Pathology team. This role will start on May, 2026.

Job details

Your new role:

As the Speech Pathologist Team Leader – GARU, you will deliver advanced, specialised speech pathology services while providing clinical leadership and professional governance within the Geriatric and Rehabilitation Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital. Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver advanced clinical and consultancy speech pathology services to complex inpatient and outpatient GARU caseloads
• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to Speech Pathologists, Assistants and Trainees
• Lead operational, workforce and service planning activities to ensure safe, high-quality service delivery
• Drive innovation, quality improvement and evidence-based practice within the service

About you:

You are an experienced and motivated Speech Pathologist who thrives in complex clinical environments and enjoys leading teams to deliver outstanding outcomes.

You will bring:

• Advanced clinical expertise in speech pathology with strong independent decision-making skills
• Proven leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary healthcare teams
• Demonstrated ability to lead service improvement, innovation and change
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement and professional governance capability

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

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:

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

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 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.

• We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)
  
  Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF)
  
  MS01673559 Role Description (PDF)