About this job
About the Department of Education:
The Department of Education employs over 900 allied health professionals who work in state schools. Our physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech language pathologists play a critical role in supporting all students to access an equitable education and succeed.
Your Role:
Provide support to other state school therapists to build capability and promote best practice in the delivery of services via telepractice
Use telepractice to collaborate with schools to assess barriers to student participation and develop and implement therapy supports and interventions including using complex strategies
Lead, deliver and report outcomes for related projects
Responsibilities include:
- Use telepractice to support students to achieve their potential using evidence-based contemporary SLP, OT or PT knowledge and frameworks to assist schools to identify and make reasonable adjustments and implement inclusive teaching strategies
- Use telepractice to collaborate with schools, the designated supervising therapist and other service providers to assess barriers to student learning, and develop and implement SLP, PT or OTs services and interventions across schools including complex and specialist interventions, where required.
- Provide training and support to other state schools SLP, PT and OTs to promote and support best practice in SLP, OT or PT telepractice service delivery
- Maintain effective communication and collaboration networks with relevant schools and regional supervisory therapists and regional leadership teams, to facilitate knowledge and resource sharing of specific or specialised clinical areas of telepractice service delivery
- Lead and conduct specialised telepractice projects and innovative research activities relating to the delivery and continuous improvement of SLP, OT and PT services within schools.
- Provide professional advice relating to telepractice services to the Director, Therapies and Nursing, schools and other stakeholders on policies, systems and practices related to the delivery and continuous improvement of SLP, OT and PT services within schools.
Benefits:
- Structured professional supervision arrangements
- Professional development leave and allowances
- Flexible work arrangements
- 12.75% superannuation contributions
- Accumulated time off agreements to support work life balance
- Focus on participation focussed goals not KPIs
- Access to employee assistance program
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.
Interested? To Apply:
- Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
- 2 page response providing evidence of how your achievements and capabilities meet the responsibilities of the role as listed above under Your Role and Responsibilities
We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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