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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