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 Supervisory you will be responsible for providing leadership and clinical supervision to school-based speech language pathologists in the delivery of safe, effective high-quality services to support children and students to access and fully participate in their learning.
Responsibilities include:
- Provide leadership and clinical supervision to school-based speech language pathologists aligned with the Therapist Clinical Supervision Guidelines.
- Provide induction and on-boarding to school-based speech language pathologists new to the role in collaboration with the school-based line manager and Senior Advisor, Speech Language Pathologist.
- Identify and respond to professional, organisational and personal learning needs of school-based speech language pathologists.
- Collaborate with Senior Advisors and Senior Officers across all therapy streams to identify and respond to common issues impacting therapy services in education.
- Direct and support speech language pathologists and school management teams in assessing speech language pathology requirements and identifying appropriate speech language pathology responses and interventions to support curriculum delivery and students with speech language communication needs.
- The incumbent may be required to work throughout the service area of the position's base location. Please note that travel, including overnight travel may be a requirement of this role.
- This position may require the incumbent to operate a government vehicle and an appropriate license endorsement to operate this type of vehicle may be required. (Queensland ‘C” class license).
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
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 1-page written statement in response to the attached 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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