Speech Pathologist

Join the fun and engaging team at ABAlink Early Intervention Services who are passionate about positively impacting the lives of children on the autism spectrum and their families.

We are a progressive, innovative practice that brings together professionals from all around the world and incorporates their experiences to develop a well-rounded team fostering supportive relationships with their clients and families through providing a multi-disciplinary approach.

As such we are looking for a speech therapist with strong business acumen who has the ability to drive a division within a practice and work collaboratively within the team so that we can offer speech therapy as a separate service as well as offer an in-house multi-disciplinary approach to our ABA based intervention programs.

Reporting to the MD and working closely with our ABA Clinical Manager, you will be a leader who is wanting to contribute professionally and take charge of delivering quality Speech Therapy services within a collaborative ABA environment.

This role is really varied and your typical would include some of the following on any given day….

• Assessing children using various assessment tools
• Create individualised outcome focused goals
• Support an individual learner in a 1:1 basis and /or within a group setting
• Working in collaborative partnership with parents and other professionals to facilitate the building of skills for our learners
• Participate in clinical team meetings (including some training opportunities)
• Delivery of training workshops on a range of topics related to ASD
• Training of Speech Graduates as well as junior / senior behavioural therapists working with clients of ABAlink

The ideal candidate would possess the following attributes:

• Mature minded Self Starter who is highly motivated to achieve positive outcomes for our clients
• Professional & empathetic in your approach
• Natural ability to interact with children.
• Strategic thinking skills with the ability to execute and achieve results.
• Self-motivated, with excellent organizational and time management skills.

Educational

• Minimum 3-5 years paediatric Speech Pathology experience with any of these accreditations globally
• Australia SPA registration
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) -
• Certificate of Clinical Competence- Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP)
• Speech-Language & Audiology Canada (SAC) - Certified Speech-Language Pathologist (S-LP(C))
• Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) - Certified Member (Cert MRCSLT)
• Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists (IASLT) - Full Member
• New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists' Association (NZSTA) - Full Member

Skills and Experience required

• The ability to create Individualized goals
• Writing and submitting reports to funding agencies
• Have experience working with children with a disability or autism
• Demonstrate a commitment to ongoing Professional Development

Benefits:Competitive Salary up to $150K + superannuation 11% dep on experience

• 4 weeks (20 day) paid annual Leave
• 10 days paid Sick leave
• Social team days
• The opportunity to be a part of a leadership team
• Professional Development package

Sponsorship opportunities are available If this opportunity sounds like you we would love to hear from you