For the past 6 years, Leaps and Bounds has been committed to providing multidisciplinary (OT, Speech and Physio) services to our local Caboolture (and surrounds) community. Our team has been recognized widely for our ‘wrap around’ approach to care, leading us to focus on ‘higher needs’ clientele where we can work together to help families overcome the challenges and barriers they face.

Our team utilizes a unique model of care that incorporates the following:

• We triage referrals from our very long waitlist, so that we can provide support to the families' who need our support the most.
• We start each year off with our family planning meetings which include all important people involved in the care of each family, where we align health/medical and family priorities to ensure we provide the ‘right therapies at the right time’. With the extended team we develop a prioritized list of therapy goals that focus on ‘one step at a time’.
• We provide therapies where the families need it the most, whether it be in the clinic, at home, at daycare/school, at the pool, the park or even at MacDonalds!
• We provide ‘joint therapy’ sessions where therapists from disciplines can work together with families.

Position Logistics:

• Position start date: As soon as possible
• Hours: Completely flexible
• Schedule: Completely flexible
• Competitive salary + super + leave entitlements + commissions

Role Responsibilities:

• Attainment of early language developmental skills
• Prescription and implementation of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (low and high technology systems), including PODD books, eye gaze device, visual schedules, and Proloquo2go.
• Functional and family-centred intervention for fussy eaters utilizing the principles of the SOS feeding approach.
• Support for infant feeding difficulties, including bottle feeding and transitioning to solids or texture foods.
• Management of dysphagia, oral motor and swallowing disorders, through individualized mealtime plans, swallowing therapy and carer education.
• Building language skills to meet functional communication goals (including expanding vocabulary, improving sentence structures, following directions and understanding/answering questions).
• Achieving clear speech through developing speech sounds and eliminating sound errors.
• Functional support to achieve social communication goals in everyday contexts.
• Managing speech fluency to achieve stutter free speech using BERL strategies.

• A caseload from birth to adulthood (and a range of complexities)
• Clinic, home and community visits
• Assessments and applying interventions relating to goals identified by the family and/or client:
• Individual KPI's are developed based on level of experience.
• Working with clients who access NDIS funding – development of service agreements, reporting and assistive technology applications.
• Case and team discussions with the Physiotherapist and/or Occupational, where appropriate.
• Liaising confidently with the family, educational team, health/medical team and other stakeholders.
• Use of Zanda for caseload management.
• Writing reports and keeping documented records of therapeutic goals to provide to the client, family, stakeholders and the NDIS.

In addition, professional support within the role includes the following:

• Fortnightly Friday team meetings (2 hours).
• Monthly peer supervision with discipline team for complex case discussion and sharing of resources (1 hour).
• Monthly professional supervision with an external supervisor of your choice (1 hour).
• Monthly individual time with company directors where your individual career goals are established (1 hour).
• Unlimited professional development budget.

As part of the Leaps and Bounds team you will be provided with access to the following:

• Own laptop (Surface Pro)
• Ipads
• Uniforms
• Company cars
• Allocated work-from-home 'non face to face’ time
• A wide range of standardized assessments
• A wide range of therapy toys and resources
• A modern clinic environment with purpose build ‘gross motor room’, ‘sensory room’ and ‘conference room.’
• An administration team that covers all scheduling, billing and management of your day-to-day calendars

Successful candidates will have:

• Bachelor of Speech Therapy
• Current Blue Card and Yellow Card
• Current Senior First Aid Certificate
• Current drivers license and own transport
• A solution-focused approach
• A fun, and friendly attitude

Salary will be negotiated based on the level of experience and the Health Professional and Support Services Award 2024.