Description

 
 Position: New Graduate / Early Career Paediatric Speech Pathologist (Full Time) 

• Love working with children who have speech, language and learning difficulties?  We are looking for you!
• Looking for a private practice position providing formal and informal inservice and mentoring new grads and early career therapists to broaden skills and achieve their goals? 
• Prefer a practice with a wide range of equipment, test and therapy resources and programs available?
• Enjoy taking time out regularly to celebrate wins? 

         Our team of experienced therapists are here to support you - we are looking for a new team member. 

The Position:

• Full-Time position (Part-Time also considered)
• Commencement -late January, 2026 . 
• Full Time Salary from $83,642 + Superannuation 12% + PD up to $2500 (Total Package $96,179), increasing with experience

• 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 new 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 a well established practice in Clayfield, working as part of a strong and committed wider multidisciplinary network, of education and health professionals across schools and local rooms. 
• We provide excellent work conditions, with individual rooms, great equipment and resources, and full administration support for bookings and client liaison.
• Our expertise is in areas of Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), Developmental Language Disorders, Literacy and early Language development support for Late Talkers, including  ASD. 
• We offer clinic-based, school-based and telehealth services with regular weekly school-therapy services by invitation within some private schools in Brisbane.
• We will provide weekly supervision, mentoring, peer reviews and team days, benefittiong from the range of experience amongst our senior therapists, in a caring and professional manner to ensure you continue to develop skills and become the clinician you’d like to be.

 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 also 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.