Speech Language Pathologist

**Job Description**:
The Allied Health Services (AHS) team, under Professional Practice consists of Regulated Healthcare Professional including: Nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Social Work, Registered Dietitians, as well as unregulated Rehabilitation Assistants. Each discipline is focused on driving evidence informed practice to promote high quality patient and family centered care.

The team has a professional practice leader (PPL) model for each regulated allied health discipline which promotes and enhances the interprofessional team. Each regulated discipline has their own PPL with dedicated time to enhance their communities of practice, represent their respective disciplines at committees, create policies & procedures and lead corporate level initiatives.

We are currently seeking a **permanent full time Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and Speech Language Pathology Professional Practice Leader (PPL)**. This role will include dedicated PPL time (0.2FTE) as well as clinical SLP shifts (0.8FTE) supporting inpatient/outpatient acute care and rehabilitative care needs.

Position Summary:
The Professional Practice Leader (PPL) is the representative of their specific health care professional discipline at RVH. The PPL provides leadership in creating, articulating and sustaining an organizational wide plan for the interprofessional practice of the respective discipline and emphasizes the highest quality, evidence based, patient and family centered care. The PPL maintains an active clinical practice within RVH. It is the responsibility of all Regulated Health Professionals to be accountable to their individual College to ensure they maintain a high standard of practice including ongoing education/training to maintain best practice in the delivery of safe, effective and ethical treatment for their patients.

Education/Experience/Qualifications:

- Master’s Degree specific to Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech Language Pathology (or equivalent) - required
- Current & valid registration with the College of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists of Ontario - required.
- Membership in discipline-specific Professional Association required.
- Minimum of five years varied clinical practice experience with demonstrated clinical excellence.
- Recent experience within varied clinical practice areas of acute care (medical and surgical) and rehabilitative care
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A strong ability to identify, assess, evaluate, treat, and manage communication impairments and/or swallowing disorders
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills including experience in the role of mentor**.**:

- Understanding of professional standards and management of ethical issues.
- Demonstrated ability to work with an interdisciplinary team.
- Familiarity with the Regulated Health Professions Act of Ontario, standards of practice, and scope for discipline.
- Demonstrated** **ability to manage change and to foster an environment which promotes personal accountability.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects at one time.
- Demonstrated ability to achieve goals and objectives within a specified time frame.

Accountabilities:
Practice Leadership
- Represents Allied Health Services as a member of the Professional Advisory Committee
- Advocates that College legislation, regulations, standards and guidelines are met
- Develop, disseminate and sustain profession specific and interprofessional standards of care, medical directives, policies and procedures, and pre-printed orders
- Promotes, advances, integrates and sustains evidence based practice within professional and across interprofessional care teams
- Supports the practice development of unregulated discipline specific support staff (as appropriate)
- Identifies and addresses areas of clinical risk related to practice and college standards
- Promotes the advancement of the profession, both internally and externally through practice, research and quality initiatives
- Advises programs and services on issues related to skill mix, scope of practice and licensing and credentialing in planning programs and services
- Collaborates with Human Resources and the leadership team in the development and implementation of recruitment, selection, orientation and retention strategies
- Monitors and maintains profession-specific accreditation standards and workload measurement system (as applicable)
- Interprets workload measurement data
- Evaluates outcomes of profession-specific interventions, structures, and processes
- Recommends appropriate utilization of professional services across the organization
- Develops and evaluates profession-specific strategic plans
- Ensures profession-specific participation in strategic planning
- Collaborates with managers/directors regarding recruitment, hiring, performance management as specific to profession
- Directs implementation/promotion o