Speech Pathologist, AH3, ongoing 0.5 (2.5 days per week/ 5 days per fortnight), working in schools in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, based in Greensborough.

Why Student Support Services?

SSS comprise a broad range of allied health professions including psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers.

Working in SSS is deeply meaningful, highly rewarding, challenging, and dynamic and gives you the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the life of children and young people, their families, schools, and communities. You'll work with a diverse group of people who share a common goal, and you will be well supported to use your professional skills and knowledge to provide specialised support at the individual, group, school, and area level.

As part of an Area based multi-disciplinary health, wellbeing, and inclusion team, you will work to help build the capability of schools to support student achievement, engagement, and wellbeing. 

What can we offer you?

The work we do matters greatly, and there are few comparable opportunities to shape the life of children and young people for the better.

You will have access to a broad range of benefits including:

• Flexible working arrangements;
• Professional development and learning opportunities;
• A competitive salary with salary progression;
• A range of salary packaging options; and
• Generous leave entitlements, including purchasing additional leave.

We know that the success of our State depends on the success of our people. If you are driven by a desire to contribute to the big picture, and the future success of our children and our State, then a career working in our SSS allied health workforce is for you.

Required: A graduate or post-graduate degree in Speech Pathology, eligibility for membership with Speech Pathology Australia (SPA), and a current Australian Drivers' Licence and Working with Children Check.

Please address the Key Selection Criteria in your application

Key selection criteria

1. Suitable experience in the initiation, development and implementation of programs, procedures and policies that foster resilience in children and young people and address their physical, social and emotional needs to support their educational needs.
2. Capacity to provide leadership within a multidisciplinary team delivering a range of wellbeing support services to school students
3. Highly developed capacity to assess, conceptualise and analyse more complex student wellbeing issues that translate to improving student support services
4. Highly developed communication, networking and interpersonal skills including the ability to liaise effectively with a wide range of people in the education community and beyond.
5. Demonstrated commitment to the Victorian Public Sector Values

Further information:

For more information regarding the Department's allied health workforce and working in regions visit the links below:

DET Allied Health Careers

Regional Careers (education.vic.gov.au)

Additional information about the Department's regional model is available via this link- Regions (education.vic.gov.au).

Department of Education is committed to diversity. The Department places considerable effort and resources into responding to the needs of staff with a disability. People from disadvantaged groups are encouraged to apply for this position. If you require assistance, with the recruitment process, have accessibility or adjustment requirements, please communicate with the contact person listed on this job advertisement.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be obtained from the following websites: www.education.vic.gov.au and http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx.

Applications close 11.59pm Monday 18 May 2026.