At Brightwater, we welcome people with the full diversity of life experiences, thoughts and beliefs. We foster a culture of inclusion, collaboration and innovation where our clients and staff can flourish.

We are currently seeking for a Speech Pathologist to join our Oats Street Victoria Park, disability support team on a Permanent Part -Time basis.

About the Role:

• Deliver specialized speech pathology interventions tailored to people with significant communication impairments following acquired brain injury.
• Your work will focus on supporting individuals aged 18-65 years in their journey to regain meaningful communication and safe swallowing.
• Provide expert communication therapy to support clients with complex needs and severe communication challenges.
• Conduct thorough assessments and implement evidence-based dysphagia to ensure safety and quality of life.
• Flexibly adapt your approach to include high-level communication assessment and therapies as colleagues go on leave and clients progress and goals evolve.
• Provide individualised impairment and functional based therapy
• Provide group therapy.

Brightwater can offer you:

• The ability to salary package up to $18,550 per annum – meaning you can legitimately pay less tax and increase your take-home pay
•  Our unique staff benefits program, including access to BrightwaterPlus which gives you discounts with over 370 retailers.
• Career development and professional development opportunities, as well as 5 days of professional development leave each year.
• Free on-site parking

The ideal candidate will:

• Be eligible to be a member of Speech Pathology Australia.
• Ensure all care/rehabilitation practices are provided in a manner that promotes the personal values of the client, and adheres to relevant policies of Brightwater Care Group, appropriate professional Code of Ethics, and to relevant legislation affecting professional practice and other relevant standards and guidelines.
• Use SP skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised, outcome based care within an interdisciplinary team and in partnership with the client and their representatives and other relevant stakeholders. This includes dysphagia and mealtime management, oral health, communication disorders, augmentative communication.
• Communicate with clients and their representatives in regard to identifying the client’s individualised goals and preferences, developing the client’s dysphagia and/or communication plan, answering questions, facilitating relevant education and training, and providing information about the SP recommendations, showing respect for the individuals.
• Identify areas for improvement and uses a continuous quality improvement approach to problem solving.
• Supervise the work of therapy assistants, delegating the implementation of therapeutic activities to therapy assistants.
• Satisfactory National Police Certificate (obtained within the last 12 months).
• Current WA ‘C’ class Driver’s Licence
• NDIS Workers Screening Check

About Brightwater

Brightwater has over 100 years of care experience. We are experts in our field, and as one of the country’s largest care providers, we have the resources to innovate, adapt and empower our clients and staff. Our team members use their Brightwater Spirit to enable our clients to pursue the dignity of independence – the Brightwater Mission.

If you share a spirit that is caring, authentic, progressive and courageous then please read the attached job description for more information on the role, including a full list of duties and selection criteria to address. Applications are due by COB 31 July 2025 and Brightwater reserves the right to close this advert before this date.

For confidential enquiries, please phone Sally Willmott or Mellisa Marsden on 9362 9200.

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