• 2 EFT (Full Time or Part Time)

A little about the role

DPV Health is a leading healthcare services provider operating out of Melbourne’s northern growth corridor. Our professional staff deliver a wide variety of clinical, community health and wellbeing services.

We provide client-centred, strengths-based services to children and adolescents from birth to 12 years old with a disability or developmental delay. We value the importance of transdisciplinary/multidisciplinary models of practice.

Your day to day responsibilities will include:

• Providing a high quality, evidence based Early Childhood Intervention and Paediatric Occupational Therapy service that is co-designed with the family, meeting the needs of the children and families in a manner which respects the rights and confidentiality of the child and their family.
• Embracing innovation and responsiveness
• Working in partnership and collaboration with all those associated with the child/family to provide timely and developmentally appropriate services using a Team around the Child Approach.
• Maintaining communication with all authorised key stakeholders relevant to a child and family’s team. These stakeholders will include the family, other DPV ECIS staff and community team members e.g. Preschool and childcare staff

About you

You will have substantial experience and interest as a paediatric speech therapist with evidence of successful team development and growth. You will also come with:

• A Bachelor or Masters of Speech Pathology from a recognised university
• Current unconditional registration as an Speech Pathologist with Health Professionals Registration Agency (SPA)
• Ability to work with children 0-12 years old
• Experienced in Early Childhood Intervention Services/Paediatric Speech Therapy (play based model) 
• Well-developed clinical skills in Paediatric Speech Therapy and demonstrated ability to support a coordinated approach by working with a range of stakeholders to improve health outcomes as agreed with clients
• Reliable interpersonal skills and the ability to form a good working relationship with a variety of families with young children with developmental disabilities, DPV colleagues and staff employed in community early childhood settings
• Demonstrated awareness of the transdisciplinary practice approach
• Demonstrated understanding of family centred practice and strengths-based approach

About the perks

• Salary Packaging – part of your wage is paid tax free each pay, saving thousands in tax each year!
• Work-Life Balance – we understand that work-life balance is important and accommodate flexibility for team members wherever possible.
• Health and Wellbeing – we promote health and wellbeing for our people, just like we would for the communities we serve. We provide flu vaccinations on site and free, confidential counselling services are available just to name a few.
• Professional Development – with access to modern, digital eLearning you’ll have flexibility of course timing with access to shorter, more customised content. Accompanied by face to face training, your continual professional development is always top of our priority list.

The fine print

• Ongoing permanent position as well as a fixed term long service leave position until end of December 2021 - consideration to both full time and part time applicants
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo a National Police Check, hold a valid WWCC and Disability Worker Exclusion Scheme Check
• Full driver's license and travel between sites required

If this role sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Click Apply now!  

At DPV Health we strive ourselves on being inclusive and celebrating the diversity of all people within our communities. We are passionate about helping to support people to lead happy healthy lives. We are dedicated to working with people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, people with a disability, our LGBTIQ+ community, and people from migrant or refugee backgrounds.

If you would like more information about this role please contact Ayesha Albarwani (ECIS Team Leader) on [email protected] or Jessica Luu (ECIS Team Leader) on [email protected], using the subject line: Speech Pathologist enquiry via EthicalJobs.