Express Healthcare Staffing – Bankstown NSW

$80,000 - $100,000 a year

Permanent

3mo ago , from Express Healthcare Staffing, Sydney Metro

We are working with a client to source a Speech Pathologist with a minimum of 1 year experience working with NDIS participants. This role is community based in either the Bankstown or Liverpool area.

Key Accountabilities:

Plan, deliver and evaluate Speech Pathology services to NDIS participants which help them achieve their NDIS goals.

- Support NDIS participants' inclusion and participation in the community

- Provide services and supports in collaboration with key stakeholders

- Demonstrate an understanding and ability to provide services and supports within the parameters of the participant's available NDIS funding

- Participate in regular professional development opportunities to keep up with current developments

- Fulfil administrative requirements such as data collection and note taking

- When assigned, supervise and train assistants, volunteers and students, ensuring the maintenance of qualified, clinical, ethical and safety standards

- Ensure compliance with PRS duty of care (code of practice)

- Ensure services meet quality service standards and NDIS guidelines

- Demonstrate an understanding of the typical development and continuum of function of communication and eating/swallowing mechanisms

- Demonstrate understanding of common daily activities, routines and habits and how they will be impacted by communication and eating/swallowing issues





- Demonstrate awareness of the effects of seating/positioning on body tone and controlled movement and its relationship to eating/swallowing and communication

- Demonstrate an understanding of the different approaches and options for saliva control

- Demonstrate an understanding of the communicative function of behaviour in participants that have complex needs

- Demonstrate an understanding of gastro-oesophageal reflux and its implications for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities

- Demonstrate an understanding of common conditions that can effect eating, swallowing and communication for individuals with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities

- Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of an individual's environment and their communication partners on communication success

- Demonstrate the ability to prescribe communication equipment appropriate to the individual with developmental, neurological, intellectual and physical disabilities

- A commitment to a person-centred approach

- Excellent skills in collaboration and demonstrated skills in working in a multi-disciplinary team

- A commitment to the inclusion and participation of people who have a disability within their local and natural communities

- The ability to work independently

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- A commitment to ongoing development of skills and capabilities

- A commitment to using evidence as a basis for practice.

Essential Licenses and Accreditations:

- NDIS Experience - minimum 12 months

- NDIS Worker Screening Clearance

- Working with Children's check

- Current Driver's license

- Own Car

- Current AHPRA registration

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