Speech Pathologist | BROKEN HILL

Full time until June 2025, and then subject to ongoing funding

Job title: Speech Pathologist

Company: Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation

Location: Broken Hill, New South Wales

Salary: Earn up to $65,866 – $95,424 gross per annum (Depending on qualifications and experience)

• Relocation assistance+ Remote allowance.
• Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only+ Access to free and confidential Employment Assistance Program + 5 weeks paid annual leave per year.
• Supported advanced education and training + excellent personal development opportunities.

Summary: Develop in our supportive team working 40 hours a week only. Use your background as a current Australian Registered Speech Pathologist to support our community.

About Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation

Maari Ma Health is an Aboriginal community-controlled regional health service that has been providing a quality service to the Aboriginal people of far western New South Wales for more than 20 years and employs over 140 people within the region.

About the role

Our supportive team is on the look-out for an experienced Speech Pathologist to join us to provide a provide mobile and clinic-based services to children aged 18 months to 18 years in the areas of speech, language, literacy, and fluency. Reporting to the Team Leader, Ngama’linya Yapar’na (Child & Family Health), this full-time opportunity includes key responsibilities such as:

• Working as part of the Child & Family Health program based at the Broken Hill Primary Health Care Service.
• Assessing and treating children 0-18 years who have speech, language, fluency, and literacy difficulties.
• Working with the framework of a family and client centred practice, in our clinic, at family homes or in the community
• Independently managing your caseload, including documentation and file management.
• Collaborate with our staff in a way that facilitates effective communication, teamwork, and high clinical standards.
• Establish and build lasting relationships with our patients, families, and GP’s.
• Traveling within the Region may be required.

Benefits

• Earn up to $65,866 – $95,424 gross per annum (Depending on qualifications and experience)
• Working Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.00pm only, no shift weekend or on call.
• Generous Salary Packaging, standard up to $15,900 per year. Plus, access to Salary Packaging Novated Leasing.
• Meal Entertainment and Accommodation card and Remote Area Benefits to increase the standard amount you can salary package – full benefits go to the employee.
• Onsite parking, uniform, and further allowances
• Christmas Closure including additional paid leave to cover the period (4 days)
• Flexible leave accrual
• Public holidays off
• Accrued Days Off (up to 12 per year)
• CPI increases annually.
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Access to use our accredited health care service for you and your family (conditions apply)

Skills and experience

• Currently registered with, or eligible to be registered with Australian Health Practitioner Registration Agency (AHPRA) as an Speech Pathologist.
• Degree qualifications in speech pathology eligible for member registration with Speech Pathology Australia
• Ability to work with Aboriginal staff and communities in a way that fosters mutual respect.
• Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to the principles of primary health care and how they relate to maternal and infant health, particularly Indigenous children.
• Computing skills relevant to the position and competent in the use of information and communication technology including Microsoft Word, email and internet applications and the ability to quickly acquire skills in other applications.
• Proven ability to communicate in a clear, considerate manner with genuine compassion.

The Location

We are proud to work on Paakintji country. The Oasis of the Outback, Broken Hill is a living, breathing time capsule where the great mining prosperity of yesteryear blends seamlessly with a rising modern art scene, all set amid a sprawling desert landscape. It is a place of huge skies, rocky red earth, and a fascinating and internationally significant history. This historic town is great for all ages and has several day-cares, primary schools, high schools, and TAFE. Beyond Broken Hill and on your doorstep, you can discover spectacular and culturally significant national parks, lush rivers and lakes, abundant wildlife, and other classic towns of outback New South Wales and beyond. Broken Hill has an airport servicing both Qantas and Rex with two-three flights a day from Sydney and Adelaide and is only a 5-hour drive from Adelaide.