Allied Health Assistant - Cairns (C2K)

Role: Allied Health Assistant - Speech Pathology

(Open to Behaviour Support Practitioner open to offering holistic services)

Employment Type: Full-time, Part-time, and Contractor positions available.

We’re committed to offering flexible options that suit your lifestyle and career goals.

Locations: Port Kennedy and surrounding suburbs

Salary: 60,000 - 85,000 + super + motor vehicle allowance

Who we are

At Humanity Health Group, every day, we’re improving quality of life.

For our customers, we deliver innovative allied healthcare solutions that create meaningful, tangible life-enhancing outcomes. We push the boundaries of ‘what’s been done’ to create the solution that needs to be done.

For our employees, we provide an industry-leading ‘Humanity Policy’ that encourages you to cultivate your version of a balanced life and meaningful career across our global brand family.

Care Squared, a part of Humanity Health Group's family of brands, is a national organisation of passionate allied health professionals. We are dedicated to empowering individuals living with a disability, ensuring they thrive amongst the life they choose to live.

Our organisation stands out because we collaborate with individuals, providing personalised, qualified, goal-directed programs and support within their everyday environments.

About the role

We are seeking compassionate, conscientious, and motivated Allied Health Assistants to work within our Care Squared brand.

At Care Squared you must be able to provide education and support to our customers and NDIS participants, inclusive of evidence-based assessment and intervention. It is important that you display exceptional communication and time management skills and be able to work autonomously as well as part of a multi and transdisciplinary allied health team.

Amongst your desired caseload you will:

• Managing your day-to-day client activities to support positive outcomes for your clients and their families
• Provide client-driven, evidence-based therapy services to clients in their home and community environments, focusing on their personal goal attainment
• Provide therapy services either individually or as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Liaise with external stakeholders, such as other health professionals, NDIA- related entities, family members, educational staff, and community members, to provide individualised support plans

About you

We are seeking individuals who are currently studying Occupational Therapy or Speech Pathology and have a passion for supporting people to maximise their independence and realise their full potential. The ideal candidate will possess strong verbal and written communication skills, along with high computer literacy. A valid driver’s licence and access to your own vehicle is required, as well as a willingness to complete a criminal record and working with children check, and a working with vulnerable people check.

In order to thrive in this role, it’s essential that you have:

• Currently studying an allied heath degree (e.g., Occupational Therapy, Speech Pathology, etc.)
• A high level of verbal, written communication and computer literacy skills
• A valid driver’s licence with access to your own vehicle
• A willingness to complete criminal record and working with children check (or state equivalent).
• A willingness to complete a working with vulnerable people check (or state equivalent)

What we offer

At Humanity Health Group We emphasize the importance of our people focusing on their wellbeing, as we know that when you thrive, our clients receive the highest quality service.

Humanity Health Group is led by psychologists and other allied health professionals where we prescribe to the best evidence-based practices to support employee wellbeing.

The Humanity Health Group flower logo is represents the 8 areas of life: professional, physical, relationships, family, purpose, finances, mindset, and social. By joining Humanity Health you will have access to our HumanityLife policy which offers the following benefits in these 8 areas of life.

Professional

• We invite our people to traverse across our brands, to try new clinical areas, or specialise your skills in one brand. We extend our leadership opportunities to all people and encourage manager or CEO shadowing to increase your clinical confidence.
• All our people participate in a HumanityPATH Career Plan annually to ensure we understand your next chapter, and what scaffolding we need to put in place to ensure you have the competencies to extend your career.
• Our people also have access to HumanityFUTURES which includes masters and PhD supported post graduate development.
• We offer a HumanityGRAD program for newly graduated Allied Health clinicians.
• We provide AHPRA supervision in house for Provisional Psychologists.
• Every quarter our high performing people have access to $750 in professional development opportunities.
• Our teams meet monthly to engage in HumanityGROW days across Humanity Health Group ensuring ongoing training for everyone.
• We offer a referral and sign-on bonus up to $5,000.

Physical

• We know exercise and physical health is highly correlated to wellbeing. At Humanity we want you to prioritise exercise by subsidising your gym membership and offering flexible start times to ensure you get time to make it to yoga or the gym.
• We also make exercise fun by participating in company wide social exercise events and competitions.
• If you have a specific physical health need we will ensure our occupational therapists, dieticians or physiotherapists provide you with HumanityWELL sessions, or any workplace accommodations you might need to be successful.

Relationships

• We offer flexible leave arrangements where our people can purchase extra leave to ensure they can holiday with their partner.
• We also offer flexible hours to ensure you and your partner have time off during the week together.
• Many of our people perks are also extended to our partners including HumanityWELL.

Family

• We offer paid parental leave for our staff with growing families, and many of our brands have end of year shut down periods to ensure you can spend quality time with your families.

Purpose

• Your happiness at work is our priority and your voice matters to us!
• We select people who are matched to our Humanity values. We offer staff access to four HumanityDAYS per year. HumanityDAYS are designed to give back to the community that we support. Teams will get together and decide on charities or causes they want to support and design days contribute.
• We also encourage our people to become Humanity Ability Ambassadors to both promote a better understanding of specific disabilities and mental health conditions, to further our people’s learning and our connection to communities.
• Our Community engagement committee extends to special interest groups.

Finances

• We offer our people and their partners and families access to financial training to better understand tax, superannuation, and insurance. We want our people to maximise their financial potential.
• We offer performance and quality bonuses where staff can achieve up to 25% more of their salary.
• We partner with mortgage brokers to ensure our people have access to the opportunities to secure a home and become financially independent.
• Our tenure bonuses ensure our people are rewarded on each anniversary where standards are met.
• We offer salary sacrifice and vehicle novated leasing if you are looking for a new car, or workplace equipment.

Mindset

• We offer our people, their partners and family to access to HumanityWell which includes psychological support, psychological assessments, dieticians, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.
• We want to celebrate your birthday and big moments. Every year on your birthday you will receive $100 in points so you can go to dinner, buy a massage or get yourself something special.
• We encourage our people to recognise each other, to say thank you and when work is done well congratulate others. Our people acknowledge others at Humanity Health through our social media platforms and receive points for every acknowledgement. Our people cash these points in for vouchers to a wide range of stores and businesses.

Social

• Every quarter we sponsor social events for our people within each of our teams. This is an opportunity to connect with your peers, meet new people, get to know others outside your brand and have fun. We want you to develop life long clinical colleagues, and alliances beyond your discipline. We encourage multidisciplinary case conferences for you to learn and work closely with other disciplines for the benefit of our clients.
• We want you to be part of our social committees to organise our events and end of year awards night.
• We celebrate team performance and outcomes with our Values awards.

Apply today!

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Please email your CV to recruitment@humanitygroup.com.au or Apply Now.

For further information or a confidential discussion, please call Humanity Health Group’s recruitment team on 02 9052 2151.

Humanity Health Group fosters a workplace that actively seeks to include, welcome and value the contributions of all people and encourages people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.