About Us

Deaf Connect is the largest, whole-of-life service provider and social impact organisation for Deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing Australians. We stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture and language. 

Our organisational values of Heart, Courage, and Discovery stand with the Deaf community to build capacity and influence social change while paying respect to history, culture, and language.  
  
We offer an attractive benefits program including:   

• Salary packaging, enabling you to make huge savings on tax and maximise your pay   
• Flexibility regarding working arrangements  
• Discount membership to gyms and facilities throughout Australia   
• Free annual flu vaccinations   
• Free comprehensive online learning portal  
• Free financial wellness support through our default super fund  

About The Role

Our Therapy & Family Services team provide speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, and teacher of the deaf services across a number of programs, including NDIS. 

The rewarding Paediatric Speech Language Pathologist (PSLP) position is led by a Deaf General Manager and is responsible for the provision of speech language assessments and therapy to infants and children via the different Deaf Connect programs (NDIS, Healthy Hearing monitoring, Hear for Kids in School, and other fee-for-service programs). 

In this role you will have access to mentoring within the Therapy Services team and also a generous professional development budget to upskill your knowledge and experience. In addition to this we support your journey in learning Auslan via formal training and the ability to practice Auslan within a multi-disciplinary team. 

The PSLP will work in a variety of settings, which may include the centre, tele-practice, and community settings such as childcare centres, kindergartens, and schools.  You will interact with babies, children and their families supporting families’ communication choices, values and embrace Auslan as the language of the Deaf community. 

This role is family friendly, mainly working throughout school terms. We can provide you flexibility with working hours and a hybrid work from home/office model, our focus is to provide you with the balance you need to work around your non-work-related commitments. 

Main responsibilities of the role include:

• Assess children in accordance with assessment schedule and write formal reports  
• Plan and develop programs to meet the needs of the child  
• Implement therapy programs  
• Provide appropriate, timely and effective clinical management  
• Maintain up-to-date case notes and progress reports  
• Work independently and cooperatively within a transdisciplinary model 
• Providing family inclusive support.