Senior Feeding Speech Pathologist

This role is for the therapist who has already put in the years in dysphagia and is ready to stop just seeing clients and start running the service.

Boom Kids Clinic is looking for a senior Speech Pathologist to lead our feeding and dysphagia service. You'll still carry a caseload, working with children who have complex medical and physical disabilities, using current evidence based practice inside our multidisciplinary team of OTs, Physiotherapists and Dietitians. But the real shift in this role is ownership: how the feeding service is structured, the pathways we use, and the strategy behind where it goes next, including what it looks like as we take it interstate.

If you're already the person your current team turns to for the hard dysphagia cases, this is the next step.

What you'll be doing

• Managing a caseload of children with paediatric dysphagia, cerebral palsy, and complex medical needs, including tube fed and non-oral feeders
• Leading the strategic direction of our feeding service: how it runs, what it offers, and where it grows
• Playing a lead role in optimising our feeding service in NSW and establishing the service in other states, starting with Victoria
• Working inside a genuine multidisciplinary team (Speech, OT, Physio, Dietetics), not in isolation
• Mentoring and upskilling the wider Speech Pathology team in feeding and dysphagia practice

What we offer

• Regular, formal supervision with a leading expert feeding Speech Pathologist, so your clinical reasoning keeps sharpening even as you move into a leadership role
• Leadership training and mentoring to support your non-clinical leadership skills
• Unlimited professional development budget to enable you to access courses that may be out of reach at other workplaces
• Monthly budget for the purchase of additional feeding equipment to enable you to provide high quality feeding interventions
• Established relationships with tertiary health care services including hospitals, paediatricians and icare providers
• A supportive multidisciplinary team that you will work alongside to support your clinical knowledge as well as ensuring the highest level of care for our clients
• A genuine say in how our feeding service is built and run as we grow into new states

What you'll bring

• Experience specifically in paediatric dysphagia and complex feeding, not general paediatric speech pathology
• Confidence managing high acuity feeding presentations without needing to be shown the way
• Genuine interest in the operational and strategic side of running a service, not just the clinical work
• Current Speech Pathology Australia membership

Who this isn't for

If you're newer to dysphagia or still building these skills, this isn't the right role for you, however we do have other roles that may be suitable to assist you to develop your skills in this area. Reach out if that is you.

About us

Boom Kids Clinic (formerly South West Kids Clinic and D.O.T.S Occupational Therapy for Children) is a multidisciplinary paediatric therapy clinic supporting children with physical disabilities and injuries across multiple NSW and VIC locations. For more information about our services take a look at:
www.boomkidsclinic.com.au
www.southwestkidsclinic.com.au