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About us 📝
Chatterbox Therapy Services is a paediatric Speech Pathology service located at 148 Henley Beach Road, Torrensville. We currently have 10 Speech Pathologists and 3 Speech Pathology Allied Health Assistants in our close-knit, friendly therapy team!
We support children aged birth to 18 years with a variety of communication needs, including: AAC, behaviour, literacy, early intervention, speech sounds, language, and fussy eating. We are a mobile and clinic based services, and are supportive of providing you with clients near your home/in your preferred areas where possible!
We are a social, passionate team that prioritise a work-life balance and ensuring our staff are provided with as many learning/PD opportunities as possible. If you are looking for a modern, fun, client-centred and extremely supportive practice, we encourage you to apply!
The role 🗣️
In this role, you will:
- Be supported to provide holistic, effective assessment and intervention approaches for all children.
- Support development of children aged 0-18 years, that present with a range of communication difficulties, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Global Developmental Delay, Auditory Processing Disorder, Chromosomal Disorders and Down Syndrome.
- Collaborate closely with other Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Allied Health Assistants, to achieve optimal outcomes for children and their families.
- Have the option of progressing and developing in your specific interest areas, such as AAC, feeding, fluency, written communication, social communication, speech and language.
- For Experienced clinicians: You will have the opportunity/time allocated to supervise and support newer graduate Speech Pathologists and Allied Health Assistants, if this is of interest to you!
Some of the (many) benefits 🥳
- $80,000+ starting salary for new / Early Career Speech Pathology positions, and $90,000+ starting salary for more experienced clinicians (to be discussed on a case-by-case basis).
- Access to our brand new therapy space, compromising of therapy rooms and a large open office that we share with “Learn for Life Occupational Therapy”.
- Biannual reviews of performance and contribution to the team, with the opportunity to quickly increase in overall salary.
- $2,000 allocated annually to professional development and study leave. To be utilised towards any area/s of interest.
- Friday afternoon’s client free: To be utilised towards Supervision, Professional Development, any additionally administration (report writing, resource making etc), shared lunches and team-bonding activities.
- Brand new Ipad & Apple Mac Air provided for work-related purposes.
- A brand new resource package, including a variety of commonly used resources to support you within your assessment and therapy sessions.
- MAXIMUM billable expectations of 20 hours per week, inclusive of your travel time (4 clients per day Monday - Thursdays, 2 clients on Fridays).
- Access to a wide-range of shared resources within our office space.
- A comprehensive four week induction process, including support with scheduling, assessments and reports, handover sessions and shadowing of experienced therapists.
- Weekly supervision for newer therapists: Weekly internal supervision will be provided in your first six months of work.
- Choice of fortnightly or monthly supervision for more experienced therapists. Supervisors will be chosen based on your client areas and areas of interest.
- Weekly time allocated to PD's, case studies, group supervisions and administration time.
- Monthly Friday team meetings to support around professional development, general client discussions and resource development.
- Motor vehicle allowance: Reimbursement for the time & distance travelled within your private car for clients that are mobile.
- Opportunity for continued collaboration and development of holistic approaches with other allied health professionals, such as Occupational Therapists, Developmental Educators and Allied Health Assistants.
- Termly SP/OT events to celebrate our teams success and to continue to build on our workplace relationships!
Please contact Tori, Speech Pathologist, at ****@chatterboxtherapy.com.au for further enquiries, or to provide your CV & Resume.
W: www.chatterboxtherapy.com.au
I: @chatterboxtherapyservices
