Team Lead / Paediatric Speech Pathologist

🙌Are you a passionate Speech Pathologist looking to work with a multidisciplinary team of therapy legends?

🧠Are you seeking a workplace that truly respects your individuality and is excited to hear about your new ideas?  

🌞Are you compassionate, open minded and have an incredible knack for providing outstanding support to children and their families?

This might be the change you are looking for!🌈

“Inside Out – when you start from the inside and work outward, magical things happen.”   

Inside Out Therapy has three purpose-built clinics based on the northside of Brisbane, sharing our one big goal: providing quality and meaningful support to Neurodivergent children, teens and families to help each individual live an authentic and healthy life.

Our clinics are led by our very passionate Director and an amazing, dedicated team of therapists, offering a range of disciplines including Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Counselling, and Allied Health services.

Adopting a family-centred and coaching approach, we tailor our services to the unique and diverse needs of our clients and pull strategies from various treatment frameworks such as Sensory Integration, Motor Skills Acquisition, Play Therapy, Routines Based Intervention, DIR Floortime, Trauma Informed Care, the PolyVagal Theory, and Neurodevelopmental Treatment.  If it’s the latest and greatest in therapy approaches you know we will be all over it at IOT! 

Providing both centre-based and mobile services, Inside Out is committed to evidence based practice as well as quality and consistent care for clients as young as toddlers through to adolescence. We are a Neurodiverse Affirming service provider that empowers neurodivergent children and their families through respectful therapy services that celebrate Neurodiversity. 

Due to an internal promotion, Inside Out is looking for a qualified Speech Pathologist to become the new Team Lead in our Zillmere clinic.

Wearing your Team Lead hat, you will:

• Guide and mentor a multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality therapy supports to our clients.

• Foster a friendly and supportive team environment where clinicians feel safe ask questions and voice their concerns.

• Oversee the performance of the Zillmere clinical team, including managing caseloads, supporting team development, conducting performance reviews, approving leave applications, and ensuring adherence to IOT's policies, procedures and processes.

• Work closely with the Practice Manager to drive continuous improvement and ensure the smooth running of the Zillmere clinic.

• Be a direct line of communication between management and your team.

In addition, in your (Senior) Speech and Language Therapist role, you will:

• Support a reduced caseload of clients (through weekly or fortnightly appointments), offering play-based, relationship-focused and neurodiverse affirming approaches to enable each child to explore their identity, build their social emotional capacity and develop positive relationships. You won't be sitting at a desk writing endless reports - you will be focused on therapy!

• Engage children in play-based therapy to develop their emotional literacy to support emotional, attentional and sensory regulation. 

• Support and honour all different ways a child communicates from gesture, sign, use of a device or other forms of Augmentative Alternate Communication to help each child find their own unique voice.  

• Use a range of standardised, informal and observational assessments to gather information and then develop and implement individualised treatment plans for your clients.

• Work closely with families on their therapy journey.

• Liaise with external stakeholders to ensure what you do in the clinic can be utilised in the child's everyday contexts.

• Work harmoniously with a passionate and dedicated multi-disciplinary team made up of Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Counsellors and Allied Health Assistants.

• See no more than six clients per day, three days per week. These days will be made up of 50-minute appointments at 8am, 9am, 10am, 1pm, 2pm and 3:15pm , giving you 2 hours of non clinical time per day. Leave each day no later than 4:30pm!

This is a role for someone who is genuinely interested in a leadership role and also enjoys working with children and caregivers.

• A values-based organisation (founded, owned and run by an occupational therapist) which places our clients and their care at the centre of all that we do.

• The fifth day each week is either working from home or a Flexi Day off, giving you a 9-day fortnight.

• State of the art facilities with endless resources: you will have your own therapy room with swings, rock walls and motivating games and equipment to ensure you are never stifled for creative games and ideas. Our little people LOVE coming to their sessions and they will love sessions with you.

• Strong focus on Professional Development particularly around trauma, regulation, play-based and relationship based therapy - Professional Development budget of $2000 (minimum) for each team member.

• Fortnightly in-service with our talented multidisciplinary team.

• Continuous shadowing opportunities, working alongside other clinicians, lots of time to debrief and reflect so you have both the time and opportunities to continue to develop and grow as a therapist.

• Fortnightly Supervision.

• Incredible admin support so you can just focus on delivering amazing service to your clients. 

• Low KPIs and bonuses available if you bill over these.

• Above award wages, with a focus on rewarding you for your consistency, efficiency and effectiveness in your role.

• Work with our therapy dogs.

• Our team loves coffee dates
  

You are our ideal candidate if you have:

• A Speech Pathology degree

• Experience with and confidence in working with children

• A strong commitment to learning and growing as an individual and as a clinician through truly rewarding and complex work with children and families 

• A real passion for working with clients who are Neurodivergent, preferably with some experience in working with Autism, ADHD and/or trauma 

• A car and driver’s licence

• A Queensland working with children check (blue card)

In addition you are:

• Registered with Speech Pathology Australia

• Adaptable and flexible in order to meet the needs and expectations of your client and to work as part of a collaborative team

• Dedicated, fun and bubbly - and always prepared to bring your passion and imagination for working with children to work each day

To apply, please submit your cover letter and CV via the apply link.

For more information, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us at careers [at] iotherapy.com.au