Paediatric Occupational Therapist

The Speech Spot Illawarra is seeking Occupational Therapists 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 Occupational Therapist to work with our existing team of experienced speech therapists.  

Your caseload will vary greatly, working with children from 0 to 18 years old with different needs and you will have a team to support you with any form of administration.

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, monthly case and team meetings as well as offer external professional development. We value quality over quantity and autonomy. 

We offer a flexible workplace so if you need to start later or finish early or spread hours over a certain number of days - that is fine by us!

Our office is located in Dapto with 3 clinic rooms and off street parking. Our clinic rooms are varied in size including a large sensory play room and is full of resources. We also have a joint office space, reception area and staff kitchen space. 

Our clinic director is an experienced Speech Pathologist whose area of expertise is AAC and complex paediatric clients, and we would love to be able to provide occupational therapy to our fantastic kids and their families. 

We are offering a relocation bonus, annual professional development budget as well as a competitive salary and superannuation. 

Essential Criteria: 

1. A Bachelor (or Masters) of Health Science (Occupational Therapy)
2. Registration with AHPRA
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. Current Working with Children Check and National Criminal Records check