About Us

Royal Far West is one of Australia’s most enduring and respected charities. We have been connecting children in rural and remote communities to the care they need since 1924. Today we do this from our Centre for Country Kids in Manly, through community outreach and via telecare.

Our School Services Team at Royal Far West partners with rural and remote preschools and primary schools across Australia to provide multidisciplinary services. Supporting children through the school system helps facilitate equal access to healthcare.

We deliver these services via telehealth and community visits, with each team focusing on schools in a set region. Our team includes psychologists, speech pathologists and occupational therapists who have experience in trauma-informed practice, developmental delays and behavioural health.

Purpose of the Position

Our School Services Team at Royal Far West partners with rural and remote preschools and primary schools across Australia to provide multidisciplinary services based on school community needs. As a speech pathologist, you will work alongside occupational therapists and psychologists delivering services to preschools and schools in set regions. Services are delivered to rural and remote families via telehealth, and on occasion, face to face outreach trips, which strengthen our connection to communities.

A substantial portion of the caseload is individual therapy and working with parents and school staff to support student’s individual needs. There are also opportunities to provide assessment services, group therapy and professional development to school staff.

We are passionate about continually improving the quality of our services, and provide all clinicians with access to individual and group supervision and professional development opportunities. We are keen to support flexible working and can accommodate working from home (including fully remote staff), and part-time staff (a minimum of three days a week is preferred). Given we deliver services to schools, clinicians can easily request to take additional leave during school holiday periods.

Essential Criteria

• A qualification in Speech Pathology.
• Experience providing therapy to children with speech, language and literacy difficulties.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability work well on a team.
• This role has been identified as a ‘Category A employee’ and requires protection against vaccine specified preventable diseases.
• The successful applicant will be required to provide a current Working with Children Check.
• Proficient computer skills and experience with using Microsoft applications and video platforms such as Zoom.

Desirable Criteria

• Practicing membership of Speech Pathology Australia.
• Experience delivering group programs to children.
• Experience in providing comprehensive assessments.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience providing clinical services via telehealth.
• An understanding of trauma informed practice and experience delivering trauma informed services.
• Experience working within a school setting or in collaboration with schools.

Our culture:

Royal Far West is a rewarding, inspiring, diverse and purpose driven workplace which aims to elevate and harness our people power to support the health and wellbeing of country children for generations to come.

Our core values of Care, Connection, Passion, and Impact are integral to the organisation. Respecting and upholding these values enables us to maintain a positive, innovative and highly collaborative workplace culture.

Benefits offered:

• Structured Induction program
• Meaningful work where you are making a positive difference. You will be supporting children’s mental health, their wellbeing and helping them to build resilience.
• You will be able to focus on the practical work and clinical care, while our support team take care of the administration and service planning.
• Career and professional development opportunities: You will be given high-quality clinical supervision. All team members are supported to become accredited facilitators of the Tuning in to Kids, parent group program and the Seasons for Growth children’s group program. There are great opportunities to learn best practice, we offer Impactful Leadership Programs to emerging leaders, interactive workshops offered to develop your work skills as well as online mandatory training.
• Multi-disciplinary work with our collaborative and supportive resident paediatricians, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists and social workers to name a few.
• Attractive remuneration: base salary + 10.5% superannuation
• Salary Packaging – up to $15,900 of your annual salary will be tax free + meals and entertainment card $2,650 pa. See details at https://www.salary.com.au
• Work/Life Balance – work from our beautiful location at Manly Beach or work from home anywhere as long as you can travel for outreach to the areas we support and attend one team day a term in Manly. Alaptop provided to work remotely and we offer a purchase leave scheme.
• Recognition & Reward – Length of service awards and recognition awards aligned to our values.
• Positive Culture – We are an inclusive organisation welcoming people from all walks of life! Beautiful location at Manly beach: easy access by bus, ferry and parking options. We are based in an architecturally designed building, purposely built to deliver our services. We have showers and towels available for your use so going for a swim before or after work is possible.
• CARE Days- up to 5 days off to look after individuals health and wellbeing, on top of Annual and Personal Leave, with the intention to provide employees with an opportunity to take regular breaks throughout the year.
• WHEREFIT program with access to 50% off gym memberships and class packs at over 400 gyms across Australia.
• Pandemic Leave- 7 days paid leave, per calendar year to employees that have been impacted by either a disaster or pandemic which effects their ability to attend work.
• Gifted Leave- gifting leave of up to 3 working days over the Christmas and New year holiday period.
• Paid Parental Leave – 14 weeks full leave pay for the primary care giver and 4 weeks full leave for the non-primary care giver. Access to paid lactation breaks and lactation facilities.
• Royal Far West has been recognised as one of Australia and New Zealand’s Best Places to Work in the prestigious annual list, published by The Australian Financial Review and Boss Magazine.

For further information please and to apply, please visit the Royal Far West website by clicking Apply Now.

Applications will be reviewed as submitted

Royal Far West does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, or based on an individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable law.

Royal Far West encourages applications from minorities and all other qualified applicants.

Only those applicants who have the right to work, and are currently residing in Australia can be considered.

All employees at Royal Far West are required to provide a NSW Working with Children Check and vaccination record against Covid-19.