Speech and Language Therapist (Community)

Speech and Language Therapist (Community)

Location : Wellington City

Contract : Permanent, Part Time (0.8FTE / 32 hours per week)

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is firmly grounded in the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is dedicated to serving all New Zealanders. Through integration and collaboration, we're building a health system underpinned by partnership, equity, sustainability, whānau-centred care, and excellence.

About the Role

We have exciting opportunity for a speech and language therapist to work in our dynamic multi-disciplinary Community ORA team for 32 hours per week.

You will be working autonomously within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team working with people with a range of personal health conditions and disabilities including dysarthria, dysphagia, progressive neurological conditions, aphasia and age related conditions. You will be passionate about rehabilitation and supporting self-management within the home, work or community settings, using a person and whānau centred approach to your assessment and intervention.

As a valued member of our service, you will work collaboratively with our population alongside your allied health, nursing and medical colleagues in our teams. Patients may be seen in the community, via Telehealth, or as outpatients.

You will work with people who have a range of personal health conditions and disabilities including people with aphasia, progressive neurological conditions and age related conditions. This role will suit an SLT passionate about enabling people to live their best lives.

About the Team / Service Location

The ORA Wellington Community Team is a large co-located team of allied health, nursing and medical clinicians striving to enable our community to live their best lives. We work with people with acquired neurological, long term, or age-related conditions including Parkinson's, MND, MS, dementia, stroke and post trauma conditions. The teams are multidisciplinary including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech-language therapy, social work, dietetics, liaison nursing and allied health assistants, with close links with Nurse Practitioners, Geriatricians and the Rehab Physician. There are three community teams geographically located in Wellington, Porirua and Kapiti, with speech and language therapists based in each team so there is collegial support across our community.

About you

Our successful candidate will :

• Thrive in a team environment
• Work holistically with people in community and home environments in both restorative, compensatory and social models of care.
• Have experience in working with acquired health conditions.
• Have excellent communication and time-management skills, and be able to develop positive relationships with a variety of hospital based and primary care professionals.
• Be an NZSTA member with a drivers licence

Experience in videofluoroscopy and Speak Out and / or LSVT certification would be an advantage, but not necessary as support for training will be available.

Working at Health New Zealand

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora is 'the weaving of wellness'. We're dedicated to ensuring excellent healthcare for the people of Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Health New Zealand are committed to being good employers and honouring our equal employment opportunity obligations. We embrace diversity and welcome application from all people, including all gender identities, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and disability. A workforce that is diverse and inclusive means that we are better positioned to understand and service our community. We are pro-equity health organisation, with a particular focus on Māori, Pacific Peoples, and the Disability Community.

How to Apply

To apply please click 'apply now.' All applications must be submitted through our online careers' portal by 23 November. If you have any questions about the role, please contact

We will review applications as received and may proceed with the recruitment process, before the closing date of this advertisement.

Job details

Job Reference : AH213-25

Location : North Island - Wellington - All values

Job type : Expertise :

Clinical - Allied Health - Speech Language Therapist / Speech Pathologist

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