Optiform is offering New Graduate/Early Career Speech Pathology positions for 2026

About Optiform

Optiform is an established Allied Health Practice located in Ballarat delivering best practice support and intervention to individuals across Victoria. Our highly experienced clinical team offer Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy and Behavioural Support to individuals of all ages.

Our Speech Pathologists provide a range of services including assessment and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with a range of difficulties including Voice Disorders, Acquired Brain Injury, Stuttering, Early Intervention, Language disorders, Articulation and Phonology, Literacy Learning, Dysphagia and Swallowing. We delight in facilitating a person's path to becoming the most independent, happy and fulfilled version of themselves.

We care about:

Our team

Our community

Support clinicians to be the very best they can be

Providing high quality, evidence-based intervention and support to our community

Creating positive outcomes for clients

Diversity, in all its forms.

Caseload and Service Provision

This role will offer a mixed caseload that suits your experience and career goals.

Our team enjoys the flexibility of providing a combination of support opportunities - from the clinic, in the community, schools, the patient’s home or via telehealth.

About our New Graduate/Early Career Training Program

You will be a part of a comprehensive New Graduate/Early Career Training Program to be delivered over the course of this unique two-year role (with the opportunity to extend afterwards), enjoying the best of what private practice has to offer.

You will receive specific training and clinical experience in a wide range of Speech Pathology practice areas, including a number of speciality practice areas unique to Optiform. This role will also include training and opportunity to work with our adult-based Speech Pathology services.

Our services and training include the following practice areas:

Paediatric & Adolescent Assessment and Intervention

Paediatric Feeding;

Oro-myofunctional Disorders;

Developmental Language Disorders;

Augmentative & Alternative Communication

Motor Speech Disorders;

Complex Speech Sound Disorders;

Fluency;

Literacy;

Early Intervention;

Neuro-affirming Practice.

Adult Assessment and Intervention

Voice & Upper Airway Disorders;

Functional Neurological Disorders;

Acquired Brain Injury;

Neurodegenerative Disorders;

Aged Care;

Complex communication;

Neuroaffirming Communication;

AAC;

Swallowing and dysphagia management;

Mealtime management in disability.

Supervision & Professional Development

We are passionate about providing high quality intervention and support to our community so we want you to be the very best clinician you can be. Our multidisciplinary team has extensive experience and will offer supervision, professional development and mentoring to suit your needs as a developing clinician.

Your individual Professional Development program will include individual, discipline-specific, multidisciplinary and external professional development.

Optiform’s managing directors each have at least 25 years’ experience in their fields. They continue to work at a clinical level and remain engaged in professional development like all of our clinicians.

Our senior clinicians are also highly experienced with many years of experience in their fields. Our clinical leads have worked in multiple domains within metropolitan, regional and rural services. They have lectured at University level and maintain close connections in each of their professional fields.

The experience and expertise of our Directors, Clinical Leads and Senior Clinicians provides an additional level of opportunity to our New Graduates and Early Career clinicians.

Salary & Benefits

We offer generous salary packages with additional benefits including:

Generous, above award wages;

Flexibility to work part-time or full-time;

Clear salary increases each year;

Additional paid holiday leave (6 weeks annually, accrued on a pro rata basis);

Flexible working hours;

Association membership fees paid for by Optiform;

Other professional memberships paid for by Optiform;

Additional paid Professional Development leave each year;

External Professional Development paid for by Optiform;

Eligibility for incentive bonuses after your 2 year training program

Access to work car if required; and

A comprehensive IT set up.

Salary: $70,000 – $90,000 per year (based on full time work)

- An individual wage package will be offered depending on:

o Masters or Graduate Entry

o Previous experience in Allied Health or other related Professional experience

o Other factors determined by Optiform

What Optiform has to offer a New Graduate/Early Career Speech Pathologist

We want to support you to be the best speech pathologist you can be, that includes offering:

Professional growth and acceleration via our two year New Graduate/Early Career Speech Pathology Training Program, with 1:1 mentoring and supervision;

Flexibility to work part-time or full-time;

The opportunity to be involved in:

our specialty clinics:

Paediatric feeding

Voice, Swallow and upper airway disorders

Complex speech sound disorders

Adult, ABI and neurodegenerative disorders;

Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) clinic

Running individual and group programs;

AAC Play group

Ready Set Prep

Special Interest Groups

Optiform’s School Program;

Great work-life balance with flexible working hours and additional holiday leave; and

The opportunity to develop professionally by being involved in organisational service delivery decisions and processes.

About you

You have:

Commitment to integrity, kindness and respect for others

Relevant tertiary qualification and current registration

Eligibility for membership with Speech Pathology Australia

Professional insurance

Experience with an adult caseload (via previous employment or through clinical placement) is desirable but not essential

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work within a team, communicate with patients, families and medical professionals.

Current NDIS worker screening

Flexibility to work across different sites and with different caseloads

Strong skills in the areas of anatomy and neurology

Apply now or contact Meaghan Sullivan (Managing Director) at [email protected] for more details.