Developmental Educator/allied Health Assistant

**About Us**

Pearson Allied Health Services specialise in providing allied health services to children, young people, and adults with disabilities. Offering a flexible service, sessions can take place in our office, our therapy house, our farm or within the community. Our goal is to provide a truly person-centered service while working within a trans-disciplinary team.

**Your New Role**

**Why join the PAHS team?**

An exciting opportunity has arisen with multiple positions available. We are seeking two allied health professionals to join our wonderful experienced clinical team both in our clinic at Morphett Vale and at our farm in Clarendon. This is a rewarding role that not only offers diversity but the ability to explore areas you are passionate in. With PAHS you will be uniquely positioned to explore both paediatric, adolescent, and adult clients. You will have access to an allied health clinical manager with over 18 years’ experience in both government and private practice as well as receiving weekly supervision sessions.

We are looking for exceptional experienced individuals that want to provide a difference in the lives of others.

A unique opening has developed within the PAHS team, if you are an animal lover, you can have a role as a clinician who provides animal assistive therapy and groups at our PAHS Farm. Previous experience working with animals is desirable for this position.

Did you know. That we are the only private practice in SA that offers therapy with both small animals, equines and Farm animals (please look at our Facebook page to see some of our animals and groups).

**Benefits**
- Great career opportunities in a growing organisation
- Access to Smart technology including laptop and iPad
- Rewarding, friendly work environment
- Excellent culture with regular team events
- Professional development allowance each year, plus additional inhouse PD
- A negotiable remuneration package based on experience and additional qualifications and skills.
- On the job paid training.
- Travel paid per kilometre, and/or company vehicles can be used.
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Uniform Provided
- Flexible family friendly hours

**Skills & Experience**
- Plan, develop and deliver a combination of individualised and group capacity building supports for people with very significant and often highly complex, therapeutic needs
- Support skills development, teaching functional life skills: including communication, social, self-care, daily living, recreation, employment, and community skills
- Create capacity building programmes for implementation
- Develop resources and innovative practices for people with disabilities whose placement or access to the community is at risk and continue to work with interagency stakeholders for long term housing options
- Identifying networking opportunities to facilitate knowledge transfer
- Ability to produce high quality participant progress reports and support plans as required by the NDIA
- Approved Practitioner with the NDIS Quality and Safeguarding commission
- Knowledge and clinical integration of person-centred practice

**Essential Criteria**
- Tertiary qualifications that meet NDIS requirements for Developmental Educator including but limited to: Bachelor's degree in Disability & Developmental Education, Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathologist, Psychology or equivalent
- Excellent written, verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Current DHS Disability Employment Screening / NDIS Worker Check, DCSI Child Related Employment Clearance and/or Working with Children Check (or willing to acquire)
- Responding to Risk of Harm, Abuse and Neglect (RRHAN-EC) certification (or be willing to obtain prior to commencing employment)
- Child Safe Environments ‘Through Their Eyes’ Training (or be willing to obtain prior to commencing employment)
- Current South Australian Driver's Licence
- COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate
- You have the rights to work in Australia
- Experience in working within the Disability sector (preferable)
- Demonstrated skills to use in IT systems for documentation
- We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and are committed to building a workplace culture that values diversity and inclusion. We welcome, actively support and promote the employment of people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, LGBTIQA+, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds and other diversity group_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 18/10/2024