The Thrive Spot is seeking Speech Pathologists who are passionate about supporting children with disabilities in the Illawarra. Our focus is to provide quality care to our clients and their families within home, clinic, school, and community environments.
We are currently looking for a full-time and/or part-time Speech Pathologists to work with our existing multidisciplinary team of experienced therapists.
We are a Speechie led, family run clinic. We are looking for someone who can help our team flourish and grow whilst maintaining excellent flexibility of hours Need to start later or finish early - that is fine by us
We are extremely passionate about creating a sustainable working environment with low billable targets and a strong focus on ensuring staff have the resources and administration support they need to assess and treat our clients. Our team also have internal fortnightly supervision, case and team meetings as well as offer external professional development. We value quality over quantity and autonomy.
Our office is located in Dapto with 5 clinic rooms and off street parking. Our clinic rooms are varied in size including 2 large sensory play rooms and is full of resources.
Our clinic director is an experienced Speech Pathologist whose area of expertise is AAC and complex paediatric clients.
We are offering an annual professional development budget as well as a competitive salary and superannuation. We also have a rewards system in place for our team for clinical KPIs being met
So enough waffling, why want to work with us:
* Flexibility to manage your own schedule & caseload
Our Speechies manage their own schedule and select their clients based on their skills and clinical interests.
* Unparalleled, unlimited supervision and support
We pride ourselves on the high level of supervision and support we provide our employees. You will receive regular operational supervision from your team leader and clinical supervision is a priority every single week.
* We set up up for success
You will receive an iPad and all the therapy materials and toys you need. We have endless therapy resources and are continuously updating these as requested - need a Minecraft lego or a Bluey house…no problems
* Professional Development
You have an annual professional development budget and paid days to attend the PD. Your team leader will work with you to design a bespoke learning plan that will be a mix of external and internal PD. Our in-house PD library has over 50 hours of videos
* Bonuses
Bonuses are available to Speechies who exceed their clinical hours for the month - you've done the hard work and you deserve to be rewarded
* Work from Home
Want to do non face to face work from home, no problems. Need to stop work and go pick up the kids and finish off things later, no problems. Our Directors have small children of their own and highly value being able to work from home as well as from the office.
* Culture
We genuinely care about and support each other and we hope this shines through in everything that we do. We have quarterly out of hours events (Bowling, Axe Throwing, Escape Rooms - just to name a few) as well as regular lunch catch ups and school holiday training days
Essential Criteria:
1. A Bachelor (or Masters) of Health Science (Speech Pathology)
2. Registration with Speech Pathology Australia
3. Eligibility to have a Medicare provider number
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
5. Current driver's licence and willingness to use own car
6. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
7. Strong knowledge base in paediatric theoretical knowledge
8. Working with Childrens' Check and NDIS Worker Check
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