Team Leader - Speech Pathology

The ORS Speech Pathology team in Perth is expanding and we are seeking a Team Leader for Speech Pathology services at our Jandakot site! The Perth team currently consists of 15 Speech Pathologists and an AHA who are supporting NDIS participants with complex communication swallowing needs and/or complex behaviours! You will join a national team of 50 Speech Pathologists in our NDIS division providing clinical services to participants aged 065 working across early intervention school age adolescent and adult services with clients who have various presentations diagnoses and disability types. This role will have a clinical focus and support our wonderful staff at our Jandakot site. There is room for ongoing growth and opportunities of the Jandakot team.

You will work across various environments including family homes disability group homes day programs schools preschools community settings telehealth and ORS offices.

Our department ensures all staff are supervised by a Speech Pathologist have access to strong and varied internal professional development opportunities (Special Interest Groups Monthly Discipline Specific Inservices and MultiDisciplinary Inservices) and the opportunity for clinical specialisation.

You will benefit from multiple layers of speech pathologists in your leadership team Team Leader Regional Manager State Manager and General Manager. We are a department built managed and developed on the knowledge and experience of speech pathologists who have been invested in our profession for over 20 years. We bring skills from all the areas of speech pathology practice (health aged care disability school universities private practice and rehabilitation) to take the best and build quality services for our clients and career progression options for our staff.

Options to expand your skills in Early Childhood Services Positive Behaviour Support Services dysphagia management student placements can be discussed.

Work Life Balance

ORS believes in the benefits of a healthy work life balance. Many of us have families and lead busy lives outside of work so we know how important it is for our staff to maintain a balanced lifestyle. For this reason we:

• Support flexible hybrid model working arrangements i.e. working from home ORS office and community
• Aim to allocate clients close to your home
• Ownership of your own calendar so you can book appointments to suit your schedule
• Provide suburban office locations with free onsite and local parking
• Give you the ability to work part time reduced hours or a 9 day fortnight
• Fitness Passport
• Flexible bonus or leave top up
• Generous parental leave

A few requirements:

• Tertiary qualifications in Speech Pathology
• Registration with SPA
• Previous experience as a Speech Pathologist working with NDIS participants in a clinical or community setting (preferred)
• A car and licence
• A National Police Clearance Working With Children/Working with Vulnerable People Check & NDIS Worker Screening Clearance or able to acquire one for client facing roles (or willingness to obtain one before commencement)

A bit about us:

We are one of the largest and fastest growing family owned and operated national allied health and workplace rehabilitation providers in Australia with a proven track record and reputation for providing high quality evidencebased and clientcentred services for over 30 years!

Due to our incredible culture passion for excellence stability and gratitude for being able to see the potential and recognise the strengths of every individual its easy to see why our workforce has grown 1200 in 4 years and why we are the allied health services provider of choice!

For further information on ORS Group we encourage you to visit our website to read more about our extensive services our detailed employee profiles video library & company values.

If this sounds like the job for you dont miss this opportunity and apply now!