Remarkable Speech and Movement – Sydney NSW
We offer individualized, holistic and data driven speech pathology and speech pathology allied health assistant services. We help people speak for themselves.
About You :
- Bachelor of Speech Pathology or equivalent
- Current membership with Speech Pathology Australia
- Current Drivers' Licence
- National Police check (NPC)
- Working with Children’s Check (WWCC)
Position Summary :
The Speech Pathologist will be responsible for efficient, evidence-based clinical service delivery to a caseload of clients who are funded by the NDIS, Medicare and other private providers. The role is community-based and will mostly be performed in the clinic or via telehealth, with some home and school visits where indicated. The Speech Pathologist will work within our team and will be required to work autonomously and at a self-directed pace in order to achieve clinical targets.
In this role you will:
- Provide impactful speech pathology services to clients and their families to help them speak for themselves and meet their functional goals.
- Provide diagnostic assessment, review assessment and probes to determine client’s strengths needs and track progress using data.
- Communicate and work effectively with families, other Remarkable team members and other stakeholders to determine priorities, goals and plan evidence-based therapy
- Help the Remarkable Speech and Movement team by contributing to team initiatives, meetings and sharing your learning and resources.
- Contribute to the wider community and speech pathology profession through supporting our research, marketing/ awareness and learning initiatives.
Key Requirements :
Personal:
- Punctual, reliable and committed
- Strong knowledge and understanding of the NDIS
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills
- Proven track record in time and task management, creating efficiency and meeting targets
- Clear, personable, assertive and professional communication, both written and spoken with clients, families, team members and wider networks
- Demonstrated understanding and respect for cultural and neurological diversity including seeing everyone as an individual
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Professional communication style to all internal and external stakeholders
- Great computer skills required for the company practice management software and Microsoft 365
- Ability to complete energetic and flexible work within a team and autonomously
- Ability to follow direction and take initiative but also ask for help or support when needed
Professional:
- Experience in providing evidence-based speech, language and literacy support
- Demonstrated ability to hear and describe speech features such as vowels, prosody and resonance.
- Prior experience in disability settings and working with the NDIS
- Demonstrable track record of completing and implementing professional development to provide effective services and a commitment to lifelong learning
- Previous experience working in a growing private practice
- Previous experience in providing people with childhood apraxia of speech and complex speech sound disorders evidence-based services
- Previous training in Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme – 3rd edition (NDP3) and/or the Rapid Syllable Transition treatment (ReST)
- Involvement in quality improvement or research projects.
- Previous experience working with: autistic people, people with cerebral palsy, epilepsy and/or genetic conditions, assessing and implementing AAC or oral facial myology
Job Responsibility :
- Administer speech and language assessments, assessment and provide evidence-based diagnosis to illuminate the client's strengths, needs and priorities
- Develop and implement evidence-based holistic therapy plans in collaboration with the client's family and client if appropriate including prioritisation of goals. goal setting and deciding on the evidence-based therapy approach to be used and the service delivery and frequency of sessions to meet their goals.
- Provide evidence based, family-centred speech and language consultation and oversight of programs, to both the clinical team and to clients
- Provide evidence based, family-centred speech and language therapy to clients within the service delivery models we offer
- Provide direct speech and language therapy, train and support clients to run goals and interventions
- Monitor, evaluate and review progress and therapy plans using data-driven methods and adherence to review protocols
- Actively contributes to team meetings, projects and research
- Undertake appropriate professional development, including self-reflection
- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team members for clients to provide holistic therapy programs
- Comply with all company policies and procedures including the SPA Code of Ethics.
- A commitment to meeting client and organisational expectations
- Adopt and embrace company values and philosophy
- Ensure the environment is kept in a safe and hygienic state at all times
- Commitment to work as an effective team member and as a person who leans in and gets tasks done
- Promote the company and it’s interests to the local and wider community
- Ensure all communication is completed in a professional and polite manner, to all internal and external stakeholders
- Participation in professional development opportunities to support continuous learning relevant to position
- Participation in supervision with seniors and peers to ensure services respond to family need and best practice principles
- Proactively manages self care and wellbeing for sustainable support of themselves, team members and our clients
Job Benefits :
- Excellent professional development, support and mentoring
- As leaders in complex speech problems, you can learn directly from us, join our team days and speech learning times and get access to quality supervision. We also offer external professional development opportunities.
- Flexibility to suit your lifestyle
- We're open to part time or full time hours, clinic-based work, mobile-based work or online services. You can work from home where possible. We know supporting you and your family will help you achieve remarkable results for our clients! We need a commitment of at least 2 days a week to ensure our services work optimally for clients.
- Paying you for your expertise and time
- Full and supportive client experience team
- Save time on admin! We also have an IT Manager for your computing needs, bookkeeper, accountant and business coach to support our work. So, you can concentrate on your development and your client's needs.
- Belonging
- Be part of our team who meets weekly, celebrates our wins, works together to find solutions, has social events and team days and has a common purpose!
- We are transparent, open and address issues with support, out of the box thinking and considered decision making, NOT bureaucracy.
- Job satisfaction
- Our KPIs aren't all about billable hours. They're about the people you've helped, how your client's progressed, client and team satisfaction and what you've learned.
Develop your career with us
We can help you develop knowledge and skills in:
- being a clinician with added training and skills
- clinical supervision and leadership,
- presenting workshops and training,
- business skills / management,
- research.
Develop your skills and carve out your niche with us! We are a team that shares and supports each other to be the best we can be.
Great place to work
We have a dedicated clinic in Panania with 4 clinic rooms, large waiting room, kitchen and staff area, dedicated team and client toilets and plenty of storage.
We have train and bus transport right outside and are close to multiple roads including the M5. There are shops, cafes, a library and park to enjoy on breaks. There is free street parking.
We also complete telehealth sessions and have working from home options.
Selling Point :
We are looking for an amazing, flexible and evidence-based speech pathologist to join our small, collaborative and innovative team.