Acting Team Manager - Speech Pathologist

• Up to $127,650 annual package (including 11% Superannuation) + travel reimbursement
• Increase your take home pay with salary packaging benefits up to $18,550p.a.
• Fixed-Term Full Time or Part Time (minimum 0.8FTE) position available
• Opportunity to move into an ongoing senior clinician role at end of fixed term contract
• Support a passionate, fun and like-minded team of professionals!
• Be trusted to make innovative and creative changes
• Autonomy to run your own ship and make the best decisions on behalf of your team
• Therapy sessions vary between a client’s home, in clinic or community with children aged 0-10 years
• Support includes team meetings, discipline specific meetings, transdisciplinary meetings, peer mentoring and supervision.
• Available $1000 PD budget and 5 days PD leave (pro-rata)
• Admin support with full control of your work schedule
• We are part of the Portable Long Service Scheme! Bring your long service leave accrual from your current eligible employer and make it count.
• Located in Williamstown

The Role:

bestchance Child Family Care is currently seeking an exceptional individual with a positive and proactive approach to join our dedicated Children’s Therapy team as a Team Manager on a Fixed-Term contract until January 2026.

Reporting to the Program Manager - Children’s Therapy Services, you will provide clinical leadership to our team of therapists and more broadly to the whole Allied Health team to provide high quality services, integrating the developmental and therapeutic needs of children in order to increase children’s meaningful participation in daily life.

As an active and key member of the Children’s Therapy leadership team, this role will focus on advancing evidence based care through a transdisciplinary model, elevate staff culture to yield positive client outcomes and high performing teams. 

About you:

• a minimum of 3 years' experience working with children as a Speech Pathologist, Psychologist or Occupational Therapist
• experience as a Key Worker within Early Childhood Intervention also highly advantageous but not mandatory
• have demonstrated highly developed skills in communication, problem solving, conflict resolution and negotiation
• have experience in the supervision and mentorship of Allied Health professionals
• have a proven track record in being a team player, with an ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships
• have an ability to organise, analyse and utilise service provision, performance and evaluation data
• ability to develop rapport and positive working relationships with stakeholders and families from a broad range of social and cultural backgrounds.
• Experience in managing and taking accountability for a team budget including revenue and expenses (or a willingness to learn how)

About us:

bestchance Child Family Care is a not-for-profit organisation with the aim of building stronger communities, healthier families and happier childhoods.  We achieve this through our quality education, care and therapy services for children, our support programs for families, and our registered training organisation.

bestchance Child Family Care provides a supportive environment to grow, nurture and develop strong bonds with children and families.

For more information visit our website at https://www.bestchance.org.au/join-cts/

Applications:

Applications for this position close on Monday 28 October 2024.

If you have any questions regarding this position please contact the team at careers@bestchance.org.au

bestchance is a child safe and equal opportunity employer. We are committed to child safety and have zero tolerance of child abuse. Applicants should be aware that we carry out Working with Children, Police Records and reference checks to ensure that we are recruiting the right people