About Monash Health

Monash Health provides a world of healthcare across south eastern Melbourne, uniquely integrating primary, secondary and tertiary health services as well as world-renowned research and teaching facilities. We employee more than 22,000 staff who work across 40 care locations. In Monash Health your own growth and development is important and with us you can really be your best. For more information please visit www.monashhealth.org.

About Us

Monash Health Allied Health share the vision of One Team; Making a Difference Together. This vision is underpinned by the following principles:

• We provide quality care focused on the person in the context of their life
• We are interdisciplinary and innovative with a can-do attitude
• We view change and challenge as great opportunities

Speech Pathology at Monash Health covers the continuum and the life span. We have a large adult bed based department across five hospital sites; Monash Medical Centre, Kingston Centre, Dandenong, Moorabbin and Casey hospitals and teams of speech pathologists in community health, community rehabilitation, clinics and mental health programs.

GEM@Home Program

The GEM@Home Program is a new program for Monash Health and involves delivering care to clients in the home as part of a team of nursing, medical, pharmacy and allied health clinicians. The Speech Pathologist will work closely with all team members to ensure that best practice client care is achieved while ensuring the achievement of operational effectiveness and strong partnerships within and outside of Monash Health.

This role is supported by the GEM@Home Nurse Unit Manager, Allied Health Team Leader, and Senior Speech Pathologist in Community Rehabilitation.

About You

You are a dynamic, experienced Speech Pathologist with a passion for assisting clients to live their best lives. You will provide a high standard of client assessment, treatment and coordination of services to patients, to facilitate safe, effective, and person-centred care in the client’s home environment.

You can also demonstrate:

• Your dedication to safe best practice and quality care
• An unwavering commitment to delivering patient centred care
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude to your work, compassion and the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a team
• Motivation to be accountable for and manage specific portfolios in our relentless pursuit of excellence

What You Need:

• Relevant Speech Pathology qualification
• Eligible for certified practising membership of Speech Pathology Australia
• All candidates require Australian working rights
• Current Victorian Driver’s Licence.

What We Offer:

• access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
• avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
• mentorship & career guidance
• support to attend relevant forums & conferences
• a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

How to Apply

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity, and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Applications will only be accepted via the Monash Health online Mercury System only, which can be accessed by clicking Apply Now. Email applications will not be considered.