Speech Pathologist New Graduate Manager | Tasmania

Optimum Health Solutions; Hobart; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimum Health Solutions in Hobart, Tasmania, is seeking a New Graduate Program Manager in Speech Pathology to own the end-to-end experience for graduates, from placement to program completion, while maintaining a reduced clinical caseload. You will coordinate student placements across Tasmanian clinic sites, run the 12-month graduate program stream, supervise sessions, and represent Optimum at university events.

Travel across Tasmania is required.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Speech Pathology.
• Current SPA registration and relevant professional association membership.
• 5+ years post-graduate experience with supervision of students or new graduates.
• Strong understanding of graduate-level competency development and supervision frameworks.
• Genuine interest in recruitment, workforce development, or clinical education.
• Current driver's licence and willingness to travel across Tasmania.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate student placements across Optimum's Tasmanian clinic sites.
• Run your discipline's stream of the Optimum New Graduate Program.
• Facilitate group supervision, peer learning sessions, and masterclasses for graduate cohorts.
• Represent Optimum at university careers expos and early career events.
• Triaging high-performing students from placement into the graduate recruitment pipeline.
• Maintain a reduced clinical caseload in your discipline.

Skills

Graduate program management

Supervision of students

Recruitment

Workforce development

Clinical education

Driving licence

Education

Speech Pathology degree

SPA registration

Professional association membership

Job description

The first year of a clinician's career shapes everything that comes after it. We're looking for someone who understands that and wants to do something about it.

Optimum Health Solutions is recruiting New Graduate Program Managers across Speech Pathology. Each role is discipline-specific, but the purpose is the same: to own the end-to-end experience of new graduates in your discipline at Optimum, from student placement through to program completion.

You will coordinate student placements, run your discipline's stream of our structured 12-month New Graduate Program, and be the face of Optimum at university careers events. You will work closely with Discipline Area Managers and Regional Managers across NSW and Tasmania to make sure every graduate who joins us is supported, supervised, and set up to succeed.

This role also has a direct recruitment function. You will build relationships with students during placement and triage the best of them into our graduate pipeline. The pathway from student to hired graduate runs through you.

You will carry a reduced clinical caseload alongside your program responsibilities, keeping your practice current and your credibility as a supervisor intact.

What You'll Be Doing

• Coordinating student placements across Optimum's Tasmanian clinic sites


• Running your discipline's stream of the Optimum New Graduate Program


• Facilitating group supervision, peer learning sessions, and masterclasses for graduate cohorts


• Representing Optimum at university careers expos and early career events


• Triaging high-performing students from placement into the graduate recruitment pipeline


• Maintaining a reduced clinical caseload in your discipline

What you'll bring

• Tertiary qualification in Speech Pathology


• Current SPA registration and relevant professional association membership


• 5+ years post-graduate experience with demonstrated experience supervising students or new graduates


• Strong understanding of graduate-level competency development and supervision frameworks


• Genuine interest in recruitment, workforce development, or clinical education


• Current driver's licence and willingness to travel across Tasmania

Why Optimum

We are a multidisciplinary organisation with 14+ clinic locations across NSW and Tasmania and more than 200 staff. Our New Graduate Program is a structured 12-month pathway built around reduced caseloads, regular supervision, cross-disciplinary learning, and access to the Allied Health Warrior platform. You will have a direct hand in shaping what that experience looks like for every graduate who comes through.

If developing the next generation of allied health practitioners is what motivates you, we would love to hear from you.