Description

 
 Position: New Graduate Paediatric Speech Pathologist (Full Time) 
 

• Are you passionate about working with children with speech, language and learning difficulties?  We are looking for someone like you!
• Are you looking for a position in a private practice with a strong history of mentoring new grads to achieve their goals? Speech Language & Learning’s first ever new graduate continues to be one of our team and has achieved amazing goals since joining us.
• Would you like to work in a team that goes the extra mile in supporting each other? We take time out to celebrate wins and work with our new grads, providing regular formal and informal mentoring and support to help them become the therapist they want to be. 

If you answered yes to all of the above, you may be interested in our New Grad position. 
 

The Position:

• Full-Time position (Part-Time also considered)
• Commencement - Allied Health Assistant transitioning asap to New Grad SLP 2025/2026 (ideally but holidays possible between). 
• Full Time Salary $83,642 + Superannuation12% + PD up to $2500 (Total Package $96179)

NB Applications close 24th November, 2025.

• We are looking for a confident Speech Pathologist with great people skills and a passion for learning to join our team. As the successful applicant, you would be included into our New Grad Induction & Training Program to equip you with everything you need to kick start your career with us. It will also enable you to learn our programs, processes and systems while getting to know the team.
• We focus on giving the best experiences to our team members, because we know this will result in the best outcomes for our clients. 

 Other conditions include:

• Flexible working hours
• A dedicated room with laptop and iPad for work and plentiful assessments & resources
• Generous Annual & PD leave including Christmas/ New Year
• Weekly 1:1 Supervision and Mentoring
• Peer Group support with senior therapists
• Weekly Team Meetings
• Quarterly Team Days for Training, Team Development and Celebrations
• A welcome pack to begin, full of ‘essentials’ to get started
• The position is based in our Clayfield rooms but may involve some service provision at our other school sites in East Brisbane, Ascot, Clayfield or Bracken Ridge. 

The Benefits of Working With Us?

• Work With A Great Team Of People… We are part of a strong and committed wider multidisciplinary network, working closely and collaboratively with parents and health professionals across schools and local rooms with Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Play Therapists, Dieticians and Music Therapists nearby.
• We provide excellent work conditions, with full administration support with our Client Care Manager for bookings and client liaison.
• Our expertise is extremely well developed in areas of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Developmental Language Disorders, Literacy and early Language development support for Late Talkers, including children who have an ASD diagnosis, and we have a wide range of experience amongst our senior therapists.
• We offer Quarterly Team Days to develop team culture, projects, provide inservice and share skills.
• We will provide supervision and mentoring in a caring and professional manner to ensure you continue to develop skills and become the clinician you’d like to be.
• Work in a Great Environment with wonderful clientele.
• We are a long established Speech Pathology practice in Clayfield, Brisbane.
• We offer clinic-based, school-based and telehealth services. Our weekly school-therapy services are by invitation within some private schools in Brisbane where we are part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Our clients are from Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary School settings and some attending as young adults, needing assessment and support.

 Develop your Clinical and Professional Skills…

Establish your reputation as a developing team member with your chosen career pathways and areas of responsibilities.

We use and train our team in a wide range of evidence based programs and practices, including: the Nuffield Program, Derbyshire Language Scheme, DIR Floortime, Hanen, Blades Program, Stagnetti Play Therapy, Shape Coding, Story Grammar Marker & Thememaker, Lindamood_Bell Programs for Language and Literacy, Sounds Write, Crack the Code for literacy support. We use Neurodiversity Affirming approaches, Socially Thinking and Secret Agent Society programs to support social communication development as appropriate for individual families. 

Our director, Sue, is a Certified Trainer for the Derbyshire Language Scheme (UK) in Australia, so this language program is offered in CPD. 

We encourage and support team attendance at National and international conferences (eg SPA Annual Conference and IALP).

We will support you in your career journey!

Requirements

 
We’d love to meet and talk with you about this opportunity if your skills and experience include the following:

Personal qualities:

• you are a team person and love helping people, particularly children and enjoy adding value to their lives;
• you are passionate about speech pathology and feel you would make a difference;
• you have qualities of a leader but can follow directions when required, and learn from other health professionals who are aligned to our mission and culture;
• you are confident, resilient and motivated to embrace learning, growth and diversity, and enjoy a challenge from time to time.

 Professional Skills:

Ideally you would have clinical experience with the following skill set:

• Demonstrated understanding of methodologies in the provision of SLP services (assessment and intervention) with speech, language and literacy learning and a range of diagnosed conditions, for example: Autism Spectrum Disorders; Developmental and/ or Complex Disabilities; Developmental Language Disorder; Speech Sound Disorders (e.g. CAS); Learning Difficulties (e.g. Dyslexia, CAPD).
• Experience in service provision for children and families within an educational environment, particularly within a multi-disciplinary team;
• An ability to contribute in peer support and team sharing activities and identification /development of inservice requirements;
• A good working knowledge of current evidence-based practices;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
• Efficient time management and organisational skills.

Qualification & Registration:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Speech Pathology or equivalent;
• Current Membership or eligibility for Membership of Speech Pathology Australia and ability to hold provisional CPSP status;
• Current Paid Employee Positive Blue Card;
• Current First Aid certificate
• Current driver’s license and access to a comprehensively insured vehicle for some travel.