🌸Flexible & nurturing paediatric Speech Pathology position 🐝
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🐝Straight Talk Speech Pathology🐝
Would you like the personal touch of a small organisation where your growth as a Speech Pathologist can be nurtured?
We are a small team that values relationships and people!
We might be small but we still offer amazing benefits:
- Super friendly and supportive team environment
- Flexibility in start and finish times (and around school holidays for working parents)
- Regular personal supervision to help you develop and hone your clinical skills.
- Career Progression plan with recently increased competitive pay scales
- Administration support for bookings, client follow-up, invoicing
- Regular internal PD within the team
- Generous budget to attend external PD ($2,000 PD Budget, plus 4 paid days to attend PD)
- Membership to Private Speech Pathology Association of Western Australia, which includes amazing PD opportunities
Position Information
Flexible position available for a part-time or full-time employee. This will be in our Gosnells clinic, although there is a possibility of transferring to our Bibra Lake clinic in the future. 0-12 year old client population with a mix of private clients and NDIS. Mostly clinic based with some travel to schools/childcare centres for variety.
Our clinics are well resourced with a range of assessments, therapy tools, toys and games. We have lots of systems and templates in place to make day to day tasks easier!Experience working as a paediatric Speech Pathologist is preferred, however new graduates are also encouraged to apply. Extra, personalised support is provided for new graduate and early career therapists.
Essential Skills
- Bachelor/Masters degree in Speech Pathology or equivalent
- Membership (Certified Practicing) Speech Pathology Australia
- Ability to engage with children and their families.
- Assessment and therapy skills for early communication, language and speech sounds.
- Own transport
- Ability to manage time well and be organised.
- Excellent interpersonal skills within a team, with clients, referrers and others you will be in contact with, including strong verbal and written communication.
- Willingness to continue learning and having fun!
Desirable Skills
- Experience with literacy assessment and therapy
- Experience with paediatric feeding and mealtime population
To find out more get in touch with Esther Wilson, Principal Speech Pathologist on 0423 665 768 or est...@straighttalkspeech.com.au
cli...@straighttalkspeech.com.au
Gosnells: Suite 1/ 57 Wheatley Street, (08) 9490 4340
Bibra Lake: Suite 7, 3 La Fayette Boulevard, (08) 9418 8000
Esther's Mobile: 0423 665 768
Clinic SMS Text line: 0488 860 709
Fax: (08) 6102 1773
Inge Gaudin
Viva speech pathology has exciting part time and full-time positions on offer in our well-resourced clinic environments on experienced teams of therapists and administrators.
We hope you are a highly professional and experienced therapist seeking reliable and flexible work at one of our clinics!
We were established in 2006 and have strong referral networks. We strive to deliver services our families and clients need. Clinicians can rely on our organised receptionist who provides administrative support up to 4 days per week. All work is currently clinic based (Yokine, Joondalup) or school-based (Yanchep). Minimal travel is required for most positions.
We have the following positions available:
|
Clinic |
Positions available |
Caseload |
|
Yokine clinic |
Part time Full time |
Paediatric only or mixed (Paed, teenagers and some adult cases) |
|
Yanchep clinic |
Part time Full time |
Paediatric only or mixed (Paed, teenagers and some adult cases) |
|
Joondalup clinic |
Part time Full time |
Paediatric only or mixed (Paed, teenagers and some adult cases) |
Apply to be considered in our recruitment pool for our three clinics applications close Friday 20 June 2025 5pm:
We require a:
- CV with references and
- a letter stating your availability for part time or full-time work, your preferred clinic from the options above and your clinical interest areas.
At Viva speech pathology…
Our therapists provide evidenced based treatment for a wide range of paediatric areas including language difficulties, speech delays, speech disorders, stuttering, language and literacy, AAC and / voice therapy. Viva speech pathology also provides diagnostic Autism assessment via our multidisciplinary team networks. (Please note there is scope to work in feeding and related therapy areas in the future as we have experience in this area on our team).
Therapists interested in a mixed caseload please contact the practice owner Inge to find out about our scope of practice and adult cases at Viva speech pathology on in...@vivaspeech.com.au or 0402 134 257 (Scope of practice: residual speech and language issues, stuttering, accent reduction, business communication & voice)
Therapists may opt to work in specific areas which they have skills and knowledge base in. There are a wide range of opportunities for skill development for early career therapists (including joint sessions, observing sessions, second opinion assessments, mentoring documents and meetings).
The practice owner and principal speech pathologist is willing to provide information sessions on specific therapy areas. Examples include:
- Graduate support: Developing repertoire of therapy targeting speech and language errors
- Graduate support: Assessing thoroughly (informal and formal assessment and determining strengths and levels of students for their age)
- Stuttering therapy (considerations, factors, types of therapy for different ages and severity)
- Selecting and implementing AAC systems in collaboration with the client / student and family
- Basic introduction and revision of voice therapy (adults and children)
- Mentorship and supervision to learn how to do Autism screening and assessment in a team
- Learning how to set up another practice with extra financial incentives to manage a new Viva speech pathology clinic in new locations
Benefits..
- Excellent income potential for contractors with established caseloads. Some of our longstanding therapists have worked for us since 2013 and earn stable amounts each fortnight and obtain caseload bonuses and practice building bonuses.
- Work as a busy contractor with an Australian Business number under the banner of Viva speech pathology with potential to earn over $1200-1300 per day before tax (note: after Superannuation deduction). Enjoy the knowledge of setting up your work to benefit you, rewards of flexibility of how and when to work, ability to organise a sub-contractor for a passive income while away from work and a steady flow of work.
- Some casual employment options may also be considered on a case-to-case basis which have different conditions compared to a contractor.
- Enjoy a family friendly and flexible work environment while developing skills in your field.
- Financial rewards once graduates become more independent in their work or when therapists become senior speech pathologist
- Two social functions per year to build our team as a thank you gift for being on our team
- Experience an encouraging teamwork environment focused on shared learning
- Administration support for bookings, client follow-up, invoicing
- Financial renumeration depends on experience levels.
- A financial contribution is made to the cost of professional development for our full-time therapists.
- We have experience using allied health assistants across settings to manage our caseloads.
Essential Skills..
- Bachelor/Masters degree in Speech Pathology or equivalent
- Membership (Certified Practicing) Speech Pathology Australia
- Strong assessment and therapy skills required to manage and treat common communication difficulties experienced by children in different age ranges (0-6 years, 7 to 12 and 12-18) depending on role therapist wishes to apply for. Therapists can opt to work with specific age ranges only at Viva speech pathology.
- Organisation and time-management skills to manage tasks and caseload
- Well-developed verbal and written communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills within a team, with students, parents, clients, and referrers.
Desirable Skills depending on the caseload the therapist wishes to have at Viva speech pathology
- Experience in other clinic areas outlined in our scope of practice
- Experience assisting with an Autism diagnosis using the DSV V criteria and reputable Autism assessments on an independent basis.
- Senior speech pathology or project experience
To find out more get in touch with Inge Gaudin, Principal Speech Pathologist on 0402 134 257 or in...@vivaspeech.com.au
