Join the North Queensland Region in this rewarding temporary opportunity as a Senior Speech Language Pathologist (Clinical).
This full-time role offers the chance to make a meaningful impact while working within a supportive and collaborative team environment.
The position is available until 11 December 2026, with the possibility of extension.
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About The Role
As a Senior Speech Language Pathologist (Clinical) with Early Years Connect, you will connect and build relationships with regional, school and health teams to manage a multifaceted, dynamic workload.
You will require excellent initiative, time management and a willingness to consider every aspect of your work through a cultural lens.
You will work with the statewide Early Years Connect team, an enthusiastic group where collaboration and mutual support are highly valued, and where openness to learning and change is key to achieving results.
Key Responsibilities
* Regional Capability: strengthening partnerships with regional teams to inform school, region and system decision‐making and improvement, particularly for schools in vulnerable communities with high First Nations enrolment.
* School Capability: supporting school teams to achieve positive hearing, oral language and literacy outcomes in the early years by embedding culturally responsive, strengths‐based and data‐informed differentiation across the curriculum.
* Hearing Pathways: a partnership with Children's Health Queensland ensuring early identification of hearing loss, and addressing the significant impact of hearing loss on learning.
* SLP Capability: hands on, coaching support to promote culturally responsive, evidence‐informed assessment and support for early years students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds within a whole school approach.
Occupational group Education & Training
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