Speech Pathologist

MedicalJobsAustralia.com Speech Pathologist

Job no: 954527

Work type: Full time

Located in: Adelaide Metro Northern

Categories: Allied and Scientific Health

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network - SALISBURY DOWNS SA 5108 and GILLES PLAINS SA 5086

Salary: $94,997 - $110,052 p.a. plus Superannuation and Salary Sacrifice benefits - AHP2

Temporary Full-Time, up to 29 January 2028

About the Role:

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is eager to recruit a Paediatric Speech Pathologist to work in our dynamic, growing and supportive team, to help us deliver exceptional care to our community.

Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is looking for a Speech Pathologist to join the Children and Families Service, delivering community-based early intervention across Adelaide's northern suburbs. This is a full-time, short-term contract opportunity through to 29 January 2028, offering meaningful clinical work within one of South Australia's largest public health networks.

Your Role in the Community

Embedded within the NALHN Children and Families Service, you will provide evidence-based speech pathology services to children with developmental delays across community settings in the northern Adelaide metro area. Your core responsibilities will include:

Conducting comprehensive assessments and delivering targeted intervention for communication and developmental delays

Collaborating with multidisciplinary primary health care teams to support integrated, person-centred care

Maintaining accurate clinical documentation in line with SA Health standards and professional guidelines

Contributing to service improvement initiatives within the Modern Primary Health Care model

What You Bring

Demonstrated clinical experience in assessment and management of communication presentations

Ability to work independently across community settings with a diverse, often complex caseload

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience with clinical reporting

Understanding of, or experience working within, a primary health care or community health framework in the SA public health system

Current driver's licence suitable for travel across the northern Adelaide metro region

To be eligible for this position, you must have an appropriate degree or equivalent qualification which gives eligibility for full membership of Speech Pathology Australia.

About You:

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to a passionate, highly driven, dedicated and progressive team.

About Us:

The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) is a leading provider of public healthcare services in South Australia, and one of the largest employers in northern Adelaide.

NALHN serves over 400,000 people in northern Adelaide with a comprehensive range of high-quality healthcare services, including emergency, surgical, obstetric, neonatal, paediatric, oncology, geriatric, palliative care and rehabilitation, and mental health care, as well as primary health care services with a focus on community health promotion and chronic disease management.

With a commitment for ongoing upgrades to our facilities and the introduction of new services, our priority is delivering exceptional health and wellbeing services that enhance the quality of life for our community.

Our 300-plus Allied Health professionals play an integral role in multidisciplinary teams delivering outstanding care to patients across our acute, subacute and hospital avoidance services.

At NALHN Everyone Has a Story, Everyone Matters, Everyone Contributes and Everyone Grows.

At NALHN, we have a strong commitment to providing a clinically interesting professional experience, with structured and supportive education and professional development, and career progression pathways.

Some feedback from current employees about working as Allied Health Professionals in NALHN includes:

"My favourite part about working in NALHN is the close working relationships we have across Allied Health to optimise patient care."

"I feel like I'm part of a growing and developing service."

"I love the great team dynamic and the culture of learning and support."

Our Local Health Network Sites and Services:

NALHN provides a range of hospital (inpatient), outpatient, community and home-based services across multiple sites in Adelaide's north and north-eastern suburbs, including Aboriginal health, mental health, and GP services.

Lyell McEwin Hospital-the major hospital in northern Adelaide for emergency care, complex and multi-day surgery, medicine, obstetric, paediatrics and outpatient services.

Modbury Hospital-a general hospital with emergency care, elective surgery, medicine, outpatient and sub-acute services, rehabilitation, geriatric and palliative care.

Mental Health Services-adult and older persons mental health services and statewide forensic mental health services, across hospital and community settings.

Watto Purrunna Aboriginal Primary Health Care Services-provides culturally responsive primary healthcare services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in-hospital and across four community sites.

Primary Health Care Services-including C&F Salisbury and GP Plus sites at Elizabeth, Modbury and Gilles Plains.

Benefits of working at NALHN:

From salary packaging to flexible working arrangements, a large range of opportunities for movement and career progression, you'll find there are lots of benefits of working with Northern Adelaide Local Health Network.

Incremental wage increases in-line with the Allied Health Professionals, Assistants and Psychologists Enterprise Agreement 2025

Access to experienced clinicians across a broad range of expertise, who are supportive of collegial sharing of skills and knowledge in different therapies and client presentations.

Salary packaging is an option for saving money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants from interstate or overseas.

NALHN supports and fosters a culture in which employees feel they belong and feel safe at work. The culture aims to encourage all people to use their talents and to be valued and rewarded for their contributions.

In addition to this, other benefits of working as a Speech Pathologist in NALHN include:

professional development opportunities. We have a well-established Allied Health Education unit which offers high-quality, targeted in-house training, and under the current enterprise agreement staff are also eligible for a Professional Development Allowance and entitled to claim reimbursement of eligible professional development expenses to allow you to continue to build upon your professional foundations

opportunities to participate in research. NALHN have an Allied Health Research Chair, who is able to work with clinicians and teams to support clinical research

regular clinical supervision, allowing you to receive individualised support, learning and develo

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