Discipline Head - Speech Language Pathology
Discipline Head - Speech Language Pathology
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Job Description
Union: NonUnion
Site: Multiple UHN sites
Department: Collaborative Academic Practice
Reports to: Manager Professional Practice
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Commensurate with experience and consistent with UHN compensation policy
Status: Permanent FullTime
Closing Date: March 7 2025
Position Summary
The Discipline Head Speech Language Pathology supports academic practice and is the point of contact for the Speech Language Pathologists and Communicative Disorders Assistants. This role represents the professions at the Professional Advisory Committee other UHN committees and working groups as required. The Discipline Head ensures any current or new regulatory standards are implemented and works with the team to set standards for the profession.
Duties
- Design develop implement and communicate profession standards and competencies to support professionspecific practice and documentation aligning with best practices legislative and professional requirements as well as UHNs mission and goals
- Implement quality indicators and monitoring
- Support the profession in working to its full scope and where appropriate the advanced scope of practice
- Influence Speech Language Pathology policy and practice
- Create opportunities to build research and education capacity
- Facilitate participate or lead quality improvement and evidencebased research related practice to improve patient care outcomes
- Establish collaborative linkages with stakeholders in education research and practice
- Lead to ensure the profession meets its commitments for clinical education of learners within the context of practice and care at UHN
- Consult on care delivery model
- Lead practice orientation processes develop and implement Novice to Expert framework to as well as enable ongoing professional development
- Support UHN Strategic Goals related to speech therapy practice
Qualifications :
- Registration as a Speech Language Pathologist with the College of Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario
- At least three (3) years experience as a Speech Language Pathologist
- Comprehensive understanding of regulatory standards and legislation related to speech language pathology practice
- Strong clinician with demonstrated ability to transform and engage the team
- Strong skills in identifying practice issues and collaboratively problem solving
- Ability to implement quality improvement projects facilitate knowledge translation and understanding of project management principles
- Skills in creating an environment that is collaborative interprofessional and accountable partnering with patients and caregivers
- Exceptional decisionmaking capabilities collaboration as well as facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
- Excellent facilitation skills with an ability to communicate and work effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders with different opinions
- Previous leadership experience an asset
Additional Information :
Why join UHN
In addition to working alongside some of the most talented and inspiring healthcare professionals in the world UHN offers a wide range of benefits programs and perks. It is the comprehensiveness of these offerings that makes it a differentiating factor allowing you to find value where it matters most to you now and throughout your career at UHN.
- Competitive offer packages
- Government organization and a member of the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP )
- Close access to Transit and UHN shuttle service
- A flexible work environment
- Opportunities for development and promotions within a large organization
- Additional perks (multiple corporate discounts including: travel restaurants parking phone plans auto insurance discounts onsite gyms etc.)
Current UHN employees must have successfully completed their probationary period have a good employee record along with satisfactory attendance in accordance with UHNs attendance management program to be eligible for consideration.
All applications must be submitted before the posting close date.
UHN uses email to communicate with selected candidates. Please ensure you check your email regularly.
Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate. Should it be determined that any information provided by a candidate be misleading inaccurate or incorrect UHN reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of their application.
UHN is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive recruitment process and workplace. Requests for accommodation can be made at any stage of the recruitment process. Applicants need to make their requirements known.
We thank all applicants for their interest however only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
