About this job
About the Department:
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About the Role:
As a Senior Speech Language Pathologist (Clinical) with Early Years Connect, you will connect and build relationships with regional, school and health teams to manage a multifaceted, dynamic workload. You will require excellent initiative, time management and a willingness to consider every aspect of your work through a cultural lens. You will work with the statewide Early Years Connect team, an enthusiastic group where collaboration and mutual support are highly valued, and where openness to learning and change is key to achieving results.
Key responsibilities:
Your role will involve working with communities and schools to support:
- Regional Capability: strengthening partnerships with regional teams to inform school, region and system decision-making and improvement, particularly for schools in vulnerable communities with high First Nations enrolment.
- School Capability: supporting school teams to achieve positive hearing, oral language and literacy outcomes in the early years by embedding culturally responsive, strengths based and data informed differentiation across the curriculum.
- Hearing Pathways: a partnership with Children's Health Queensland ensuring early identification of hearing loss, and addressing the significant impact of hearing loss on learning.
- SLP Capability: hands on, coaching support to promote culturally responsive, evidence informed assessment and support for early years students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds within a whole school approach.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history).
- Attach a 2-page response addressing the Leadership Competencies on pages 2 and 3 of the role description.
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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