Start your career in a supportive and caring organisation. With a stepped caseload and clinical support provided, you will build your clinical skills while making a difference to families and clients.

Acacia Therapy supports NDIS, private and medicare clients.

About the role: Graduate paediatric speech pathologist (Paediatrics)

We are looking for friendly, warm and approachable graduate speech pathologist to become the newest members of our multidisciplinary therapy team.

As a graduate paediatric SLP, you will provide clinic based, home based, and community-based support to clients and their families.

Your caseload range will be 0-13 yrs of age.

We offer team members the opportunity to work either a 9-day fortnight or 19-day work month.

Opportunity to undertake project work and expanded your work experience beyond clinical work.

Supportive and welcoming team.

Excellent work life balance.

Have access to an individualised, tailored, and structured 12-month new graduate supervision program.

Benefits:

Above award starting wage of $83,000 + super + retention bonus ($3,000) + birthday and volunteer leave.

Yearly professional development budget – up to $2,000 per year.

Birthday leave – one day of paid leave per year so you can celebrate your special day.

Volunteer leave – so you can give back to the community.

Structured and regular face to face clinical supervision and professional support.

Retention bonus ($3,000 on your 2-year anniversary).

Access to work pool cars for community appointments.

What does a day at Acacia Therapy look like?

Our work hours are Monday to Friday (no weekend work) – 8:30am to 4:30pm.

We operate from a modern clinic that provides office space and access to numerous therapy rooms.

We see clients in parks, schools, kindy and at home.

KPIs, we don’t use them to measure performance (as they don’t measure quality). We know, based on experience, what a manageable caseload is and what a therapist can achieve in a day.

What will my caseload look like?

As a new graduate, you can expect to see two clients per day for the first few months. From here, your caseload steps up to supporting three clients per day, before you settle at around four clients per day.

Our slow and steady approach provides you with the time to collaborate with our senior therapists, plan sessions, consolidate your skills, create resources, and to finetune your note taking and report writing skills.

Tailored caseload:

We work with you to tailor your caseload towards your areas of interest.

We take the time to understand your professional goals and areas of interest.

As a new graduate, a senior therapist will have input into your caseload to make sure it is appropriate to your skills, experience and professional development goals.

Our investment in you:

Our investment in you is a comprehensive new graduate mentoring and professional development program.

This includes monthly journal club, In-service presentations, weekly face to face catch ups with a senior practitioner, access to a peer mentor and formal PD opportunities. You will receive weekly face to face supervision.

If you participate in our rural outreach program, you will be supported to apply for the Health Workforce Queensland Scholarship program. This allows health practitioners to access up to $10,000 worth of PD funding (subject to HWSP approval).

Our mentoring program also provides access to other highly experienced external allied health professionals, including shadowing opportunities, so that you can experience different ways of working and approaches to therapy.

PD package valued up to $2,000 per year (not including HWSP funding).

What the right person looks like.

We are looking for someone who can commit to a position.

We are looking for someone who is friendly, approachable, self-motivated, and committed to excellence.

We are looking for someone who takes the time to understand our clients and their support needs.

We are looking for someone who works well in a team.

We are looking for someone who thinks outside the box and looks for opportunities to improve our service.

We need an excellent communicator.

We need someone who is organised and self-driven.

Want to see if you are the right fit?

Why not come and have a day in our shoes experience?

This is an excellent opportunity to come along and see what it’s like to be part of the team.

We offer you the opportunity to undertake work experience before you graduate in 2024. If you want to explore this in more detail, please contact Louise (Clinical Manager) on 4600 1343 or [email protected]

How to apply?

Submit a cover letter outlining your skills and experience and a CV. You can submit your application via Seek or by email to [email protected]