Imagine Childcare and Kindergarten West End

$80,000 – $120,000 + Super + Salary Sacrifice

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and engaging speech pathologist to join our dedicated and growing team, joined by a common goal to make a difference in the lives of young Autistic children. We are deeply committed to enhancing the quality of life of each child and are passionate about supporting them to achieve their family centred goals. 

You will provide specialist and quality early years support to children, in a group setting, along with providing education, training and support to early childhood educators, therapy assistants and families. A permanent full time, permanent part time, or contracting position is available to meet the needs of the right applicant. 

About Ashton’s Place & Autism Connect Early (ACE)

The Autism Connect Early (ACE) Programme offers Early Childhood Support to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who are experiencing developmental delay. The ACE programme has been developed by Ashton’s Place, a not for profit organisation that aims to provide early childhood support to children within the childcare and kindergarten environment. 

The ACE Programme is a transdisciplinary early intervention program within a long daycare centre for autistic children aged 3-6. Running alongside the mainstream Kindergarten Programme, the ACE Programme follows an autism specific curriculum in a 1:2 -1:4 teacher - student ratio. The programme aims to promote skill development and meaningful participation in the early childhood setting using naturalistic supports. We aim to meet children where they are at; offer individualised regulation supports; build social connection and relationships; and support them to achieve their individualised goals.

The ACE Programme is currently offered at 5 locations, with another site opening soon. The advertised position is for a role based at our established programme in West End, Townsville. 

To succeed in this role, you will:

• Be a caring, passionate, and empathetic person, focused on developing your practice, expertise and
• experience working with Autistic children.
• Provide direct therapy support to children and their care givers aged 3-6 years.
• Demonstrate flexibility, creativity, and the ability to work within a team delivering individual and group supports.
• Comprehensively observe and assess within your discipline and interpret findings to formulate goals, collaborate with key stakeholders regarding strategies to achieve them, and deliver direct therapy.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with families, educators and therapy assistants to ensure their participation in goal setting, planning, decision making and outcome measurement; and to develop their capacity to provide supports.
• Contribute to the assessment and monitoring of skill acquisition including keeping comprehensive clinical notes, writing support plans, AT requests and NDIS review reports as required. 
• Contribute to research on best practice intervention for children with Autism. 
• Be willing to travel between programme locations to provide outreach support (including to North Queensland) if required. All travel expenses are renumerated.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor or Master of Speech Pathology 
• Eligibility to register with Speech Pathology Australia.
• Blue Card or a willingness to obtain.
• The right to live and work in Australia long term with no restrictions.
• Ability to commit to role for 12 month minimum.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Commitment to the provision of quality services for young children.
• Confidence in building strong relationships and partnerships with children and families.
• Experience working with the Autistic community.
• Experience working with young children.
• Experience working in collaboration with early childhood educators and/or a transdisciplinary team.

How we Support you

• Generous, above award salary package, including superannuation, vehicle allowance, computer, mobile phone, salary sacrificing.
• Flexible working conditions. We will negotiate the right fit for you. Contract options may include, full time, part time, 9 day fortnight, contracting / casual work.
• Annual leave allocation negotiable. 
• Ongoing professional development with generous yearly allowance. 
• Working within a friendly and supportive team, with peer support across disciplines, and regular (to be determined by you) support and supervision from experienced therapists or external supervisors.
• Comprehensive onboarding process, including specific training based on best practice education and therapeutic approaches.
• Allocated administration time each day.
• Administration support. 
• Acknowledge your contribution and the ideas / skills you bring to the team. Your contribution to the programme is encouraged.
• State of the art facilities and hand-picked resources in beautiful surroundings.

For more information

Please contact ACE Programme Coordinator, Liz Barclay 0427 354 639 .

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