AddressSeeking a highly skilled and motivated Early Years Specialist - Allied Health.
The successful candidate will report to the Regional Lead and play a vital role in delivering strengths-based early childhood supports in alignment with program guidelines and national best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strengths-based early childhood supports in line with program guidelines and National Guidelines for Best Practice in Early Childhood Intervention.
- Help build the capacity of team members with your expertise.
- Utilize functional assessments, developmental screeners, observations, and knowledge of child development to identify appropriate support options for children and their families.
- Engage with families as equal partners to plan goals and supports based on family priorities and desired child outcomes.
- Build knowledge, skills, and confidence in families, carers, and professionals to support children's learning and development in everyday environments.
- Actively connect and facilitate the inclusion of children in community and mainstream settings.
- Ensure services are personalized, responsive, timely, and flexible, acknowledging that one size does not fit all.
- Accurately record conversations, developmental information, goals, and outcomes in the NDIA business system.
- Assist families in applying for and implementing funded NDIS plans.
- Lead early intervention playgroups, evidence-based parent education programs, and develop parent resources.
- Exceptional time management with the ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines.
- Qualifications in Occupational Therapy or Speech Pathology.
- Registration with peak body.
- High-level verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to build rapport and develop respectful relationships with families and children.
- Ability to plan group and individual interventions for children with disability or developmental delay.
- Emotional intelligence, personal resilience, and tenacity.
- Advanced computer literacy.
- Valid Australian driver’s license and/or capacity to undertake outreach work in family homes and in the community.
- NDIS onboarding documents are cleared before commencement.
- Ability to travel between office locations.
- Ability to travel within the service area and meet with families and services in the community.
- Great professional development opportunities
- Excellent work culture
- Hybrid work arrangements
