Habit Health is a nationwide healthcare provider, specialising in the rehabilitation space. We enable people to live their best lives and empower our teams to realise their full potential.                                                                     

Are you a skilled clinician who thrives on helping others communicate, connect and achieve their potential? Our Invercargill clinic is looking for a dedicated Senior Speech Language Therapist with strong skills in assessment, diagnosis and evidence-based interventions across speech, language, swallowing and communication disorders.

Experience working with both Paediatric and Adult clients is essential, along with prior knowledge of working across ACC contracts. From working with children who need early communication support, to adults recovering from stroke or brain injury, you’ll use your clinical expertise to create tailored therapy plans, deliver compassionate care and collaborate closely with families, whānau and multidisciplinary teams to achieve the best outcomes.

Main responsibilities:
• Assess, Develop and Implement rehabilitation solutions within contracted timeframes
• Liaise with other allied health team members
• Create patient reports on client abilities, goals and best practice intervention
• Be prepared to supervise new graduate staff or students if applicable

Provision of enhanced AI tools aimed at boosting your performance:

Habit is proud to have introduced Heidi notes for all its clinicians to ensure they have access to the best possible tools to help them excel. Heidi is an AI medical scribe that automates clinical documentation and decreases administrative work. This enables you to focus on clinical care and excellence. In turn, you will be better equipped to make best use of our uncapped incentive programme that enables clinicians to earn an extra performance bonus every single month!  

The ideal candidate:

• Tertiary qualification in Speech Language Therapy or similar
• Current member of the NZ Speech Language Therapy Association
• Dysphagia experience would be beneficial
• Ability to work and enjoy working autonomously
• Full NZ Driver’s license for community rehabilitation
• Excellent communication skills – you will be meeting new and varied people every day!

If you think you have the experience and can-do attitude to make it even bigger with an organisation that rewards your worth, click APPLY, which will take you through to our Careers website and will activate this link.

Please refer to job 2455 in your cover letter when applying for this role.

If you have any questions, email HR@Habit.co.nz

Confidentiality is assured.

Habit Health is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to diversity hiring and providing a safe space to people of all cultures, languages, experiences and backgrounds.