SP 2030 Report

6. COLLABORATIVE PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

W e will respond to the call from clients and communities to collaborate and partner with a wide range of professionals to deliver highly coordinated and integrated services. We recognise how important this is for all clients, but especially those who have complex needs and access services from different disciplines and multiple agencies. This is equally important for facilitating smooth transitions for clients at different life stages and between service providers. We will build our skills and systems in order to deliver well-coordinated multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary services to improve the experience of our clients and the outcomes they achieve. We will realise the full benefits of cross-pollination and exchange of knowledge, skills and ideas between professions through collaborative, inter-professional research, practice, and education. For the benefit of our clients, we will be open to more flexible and negotiable role boundaries and work to maximise and extend our own scope of practice while supporting our professional colleagues to do the same. As part of this process we will acquire new skills and perform new tasks while delegating or devolving other tasks that can be undertaken more practically and efficiently by others. We will develop our roles to work alongside our professional colleagues in real-time in all service contexts and with all populations. It is through these partnerships we believe we can deliver more than the sum of our individual contributions. Looking to emerging fields of practice, we are ready to create opportunities to contribute to and learn from diverse fields of practice, including socially assistive robotics; genomics and epigenetics; population health and community development; health economics; criminology; neuropsychology; medicine; and teaching across all age groups. We will invest in establishing mutually beneficial partnerships to benefit our clients through an expanded knowledge base and access to a wider range of tools. As a profession we will bring strong leadership and evidence- based advocacy to our partnerships with all levels of government and relevant funding bodies. We will be recognised for our valuable contributions to developing, implementing and reviewing health and social policy and programs.

In our clients’ words:

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“The solution to stuttering will come from the melding and free exchange of ideas between speech pathology, psychology and people who stutter.” “Everyone worked as a team, starting my daughter’s transition to primary school 6 months beforehand. The autism therapist, the speech pathologist, parents and the school all linked together and worked proactively to anticipate her needs. It went so well, beyond my expectations. Working together proactively was a major benefit to a wonderful outcome.” “Our school has a dedicated speech pathologist who has introduced a program that teaches vocab within each learning unit all through the school every day. It’s wonderful.”

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