Speech Pathologist Schools and Early Years
- Australia
- $70,526-97,147 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A qualification in Speech Pathology
- Experience providing therapy to children with speech, language and literacy difficulties.
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability work well on a team.
- This role has been identified as a 'Category A employee' and requires protection against vaccine specified preventable diseases.
- The successful applicant will be required to provide a current NSW Working with Children Check (need to obtain through a Service NSW centre)
- Proficient computer skills and experience with using Microsoft applications and video platforms such as Zoom.
- Practicing membership of Speech Pathology Australia
- Experience delivering group programs to children.
- Experience in providing comprehensive assessments.
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience providing clinical services via telehealth.
- An understanding of trauma informed practice and experience delivering trauma informed services.
- Experience working within a school setting or in collaboration with schools.
- Structured Induction program
- Meaningful work where you are making a positive difference. You will be supporting children's mental health, their wellbeing and helping them to build resilience.
- You will be able to focus on the practical work and clinical care, while our support team take care of the administration and service planning.
- Career and professional development opportunities: You will be given high-quality clinical supervision. All team members are supported to become accredited facilitators of the Tuning in to Kids, parent group program and the Seasons for Growth children's group program. There are great opportunities to learn best practice, we offer Impactful Leadership Programs to emerging leaders, interactive workshops offered to develop your work skills as well as online mandatory training.
- Multi-disciplinary work with our collaborative and supportive resident paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and social workers to name a few.
- Attractive remuneration: base salary + 12% superannuation
- Salary Packaging - up to $15,900 of your annual salary will be tax free + meals and entertainment card $2,650 pa. See details at
- Work/Life Balance - work from our beautiful location at Manly Beach or work from home anywhere as long as you can travel for outreach to the areas we support and attend one team day a term in Manly. A laptop provided to work remotely and we offer a purchase leave scheme.
- Recognition & Reward - Length of service awards and recognition awards aligned to our values.
- Positive Culture - We are an inclusive organisation welcoming people from all walks of life! Beautiful location at Manly beach: easy access by bus, ferry and parking options. We are based in an architecturally designed building, purposely built to deliver our services. We have showers and towels available for your use so going for a swim before or after work is possible.
- CARE Days- up to 5 days off to look after individuals health and wellbeing, on top of Annual and Personal Leave, with the intention to provide employees with an opportunity to take regular breaks throughout the year.
- Pandemic Leave- 7 days paid leave, per calendar year to employees that have been impacted by either a disaster or pandemic which effects their ability to attend work.
- Gifted Leave- gifting leave of up to 3 working days over the Christmas and New year holiday period.
- Paid Parental Leave - 14 weeks full leave pay for the primary care giver and 4 weeks full leave for the non-primary care giver. Access to paid lactation breaks and lactation facilities.
- Royal Far West has been recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand's Best Places to Work in the prestigious annual list, published by The Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine.