Speech Pathologist - Senior

Join Darling Downs Health as a Senior Speech Pathologist in Dalby or Chinchilla and help improve the lives of people across regional communities. You'll provide advanced clinical care, support service development, and share your expertise with others while enjoying variety, autonomy and strong team connections in a rewarding senior role.

What your day could look like

As a Senior Speech Pathologist, you'll help people achieve better health, communication and quality-of-life outcomes across regional communities. Working alongside a supportive multidisciplinary team, you'll use your expertise to influence care, build capability and strengthen services that make a genuine difference.

Every day, you'll contribute by:

• Delivering advanced clinical care that supports positive patient outcomes and wellbeing.
• Partnering with patients, families and healthcare teams to coordinate effective care.
• Leading service improvements that enhance quality, access and patient experience.
• Mentoring clinicians and students to build capability across the service.

Let's talk about you!

You're an experienced Speech Pathologist who combines clinical expertise with genuine care for people. You bring sound judgement, communicate with confidence and work collaboratively to achieve the best outcomes. You take pride in supporting patients, strengthening teams and helping services evolve to meet community needs.

Here's what will help you thrive in this role:

• Qualifications in Speech Pathology and current professional certification.
• Experience managing diverse or complex clinical caseloads.
• Strong communication, clinical reasoning and relationship-building skills.
• A commitment to quality improvement, learning and teamwork.

You'll stand out from the crowd if you have postgraduate study and/or experience working in rural or regional healthcare.

Most importantly, you'll bring Compassion, Integrity, Dignity, Innovation and Courage to every interaction and help create better outcomes for the communities we serve.

Why Join Darling Downs Health?

At Darling Downs Health, we care for over 300,000 people across our expansive region. No matter where you live in our region, from Taroom in the north to Texas in the south, our purpose is to ensure accessible and sustainable care. It's complex, challenging work that makes a real difference – and the career possibilities are endless.

Whether you're a doctor, nurse, allied health professional, facilities team member, or administrator, you'll see your impact firsthand. Here, you'll find opportunities that simply don't exist elsewhere: the chance to lead initiatives, develop specialties, and embrace responsibilities that would take years to access in larger health services.

Darling Downs Health is where you can step up sooner, grow faster, and help shape the future of care across our region.

Your career at Darling Downs Health also comes with meaningful rewards:

• Maximise your take‑home pay with salary packaging and generous leave entitlements
• Enjoy flexible work arrangements that support balance and variety
• Access professional development funding, study leave and clear career pathways
• Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values learning and collaboration.
• Take care of your wellbeing with EAP access, private health insurance discounts and the Fitness Passport.

For a full list of benefits, visit: Darling Downs Health Benefits

Your future is here. Where are you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in a place that values people and purpose, we'd love to hear from you.

Click “Apply Now” to submit your application and upload the requested documents.

Find out more about us!

Visit our careers site to learn more about working with Darling Downs Health:

www.health.qld.gov.au/darlingdowns

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