About You

You are either a new graduate, or have 2-3 years of experience as a speech pathologist.

You are seeking a supportive, energising, values-driven, positive environment where you can learn as much as you can and continue to gain more clinical knowledge from working alongside experienced therapists.

You want to help people by growing your clinical skills and learning how to make a bigger impact within the wider community.

You also want to start learning a variety of different skills with the aim of taking your career to the next level within the practice when your clinical skills are more solidified.

You are seeking a work culture that inspires and empowers.

You understand that a team approach to client care is essential.

You are also seeking a workplace that is serious about your wellbeing and seeing you thrive.

You enjoy working collaboratively with other professionals. You are inquisitive and love learning…

Let's have a chat about this exciting role with us.

Your role as a new graduate or early career speech pathologist on our team is to provide the highest level of care to your clients as you continue to be supported, supervised and trained in a diverse caseload by experienced therapists on the team. If you have some experience already, you may also have opportunities to teach and supervise students and/or other speech pathologists.

You will also have opportunities to support initiatives and projects, learn from regular PDs and special speakers we source for our team, participate in monthly wellbeing days, quarterly internal PD days on top of a generous PD budget with PD leave on top of annual leave.

About the position:

We seek to fill a new full-time graduate early career speech pathologist position.

This role will be based at our Williams Landing location but will also have the option of working across Williams Landing and North Melbourne sites.

We are flexible with days and are open to your choice of working longer days to make a shorter work week and enjoy a longer weekend. Some Telehealth, work-from-home days are also an option.

You will be part of a team of speech pathologists and admin staff who support one another.

The remuneration package range is from $88,000 - $106,000 and depends on clinical experience. There is also the opportunity to earn bonuses on top of the base remuneration from helping more in client hours.

Ways we support you!

A tailored and structured 0-100 day induction and training program for all new hires.

Weekly 1:1 supervision with a Senior Clinician, Team Leader and/or Practice Principal.

Weekly mentoring with the Practice Principal for the first 100 days, and fortnightly after.

Clear client care expectations (including client care hours, and what we believe contributes to excellent client care)

Clear career and pay progression pathways for you in the first 0-6 years of your job and opportunities for further growth beyond. You get to go at your own pace!

Full administration support from our fantastic Client Experience Team.

Flexible work environment - with opportunities to work from home via telehealth and in clinic, and opportunities to work out your work schedule timetable that suits your needs. (E.g., Working FTE in 4 days, or a 9-day fortnight)

Quarterly team PD and wellbeing days.

Monthly scheduled wellbeing activities.

Drama-free work environment.

The position will involve the following:

Working primarily with children and adolescents 2-16 with minimal verbal communication skills, and/or social pragmatic difficulties/differences, literacy, and speech and/or language difficulties.

Continuing your growth in clinical skills in a variety of areas relevant to our scope of practice.

Reaching out to other professionals and building professional relationships.

Running group programs (with training and support)

Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds or monolingual English speakers.

Assessing, providing feedback, and writing quality speech, literacy, and language reports for monolingual or bilingual and multicultural clients and their families.

Monitoring, measuring, and documenting client outcomes.

More experienced clinicians may be tasked to assist with Autism Assessments (after training).

Providing therapy in the community from time-to-time e.g., at schools or kinders.

Providing evidence-based intervention to clients and communicating intervention goals and progress to their families and others involved in the clients’ care.

Liaising regularly with other key stakeholders involved in the clients’ care.

Writing NDIS reports and review reports.

Regularly providing written and verbal information and feedback to families following intervention and assessment sessions.

You will also participate in other team events such as (but not limited to): Professional Development days, well-being days, and team lunches/dinners.

About Us

Speech Ease's vision for our team is to be a team of thriving allied health practitioners who can, in turn, bring the best allied health experiences to our clients.

We are a team that truly cares for our clients and our staff.

We believe that this can be achieved through our core values of being communicative, collaborative and caring.

We believe that all staff have the right to love their workplace and the people they work with. We nurture, grow and challenge our staff to help more people and make a bigger impact in the profession.

Speech Ease has been growing continuously since 2014, and has developed a strong reputation for bringing quality therapy services within the community and referrers in the western and inner city suburbs of Melbourne. Speech Ease is a child- and family-centred practice that strongly emphasises delivering excellent client outcomes.

We have two locations: Williams Landing (headquarters) and North Melbourne.

While we provide a variety of speech and language pathology services, we also have extra training, resources and interests in the following areas:

Autism (including listening to autistic communities within Neurodiversity Affirming Approaches)

Dyslexia

Orofacial Myology

Bilingualism and bilingual speech and language assessment and therapy

We work closely with other professionals such as child psychologists, occupational therapists, paediatricians, dentists, special education teachers and school teachers to provide a holistic service for families. We continue to engage in evidence-based and reflective practices and are always looking for ways to help staff to reach their full potential professionally and personally.

We offer attractive remuneration and a flexible work environment. And most importantly, we will teach you how to help more people and increase your impact within the team and community.

Our team is driven, collegial and highly supportive, with weekly and fortnightly scheduled mentoring sessions, case discussions and PD opportunities. We regularly invite other professionals to speak at our team meetings and PD days.

We would love to meet you. We are looking for someone to start as soon as possible.

However, we can offer later start dates for the right applicant.

Please send your cover letter and resume to [email protected] as soon as possible.

In your cover letter, please tell us what is your favourite part about being a speech pathologist and why.