Speech Pathologist | 3 Days, No Travel | NFP Autism Preschool, Rooty Hill in Rooty Hill, Australia

Three days a week, one building, zero driving. If you've been doing mobile community work, this is the job that gets your days back.

Be Recruitment has partnered with SDN Children's Services, a not-for-profit with more than 120 years of history, to find their next Speech Pathologist at SDN Beranga, a purpose-built autism-specific preschool in Rooty Hill supporting 27 children a day. Your sessions are still 1:1, but in their day-to-day setting.

The role

You'll work entirely on-site, delivering play-based communication support inside preschool routines (learning, play, mealtimes) and focused family sessions in the clinic rooms. Around 5 hours of direct child and family contact a day; notes, planning and team time sit inside your paid hours.

You'll work in genuine partnership with families: communication strategies that carry into home routines, and goals set with parents who are deeply invested. In a service this size, 27 children a day, you see the same families every week and you see progress happen. That's a kind of impact a mobile caseload rarely gives you.

While taking the briefing, I asked what the days actually feel like. The answer, in short: it's a settled, well-supported service. Big feelings are part of any preschool; here they're met by educators who step in, a behaviour support practitioner on-site every day, and a manager who brings the behavioural lens to your caseload. You're never the only adult in the room.

Days are flexible: three days a week with Tuesday preferred, and you choose your hours, 8-4, 9-5 or 10-6.

There's real scope to grow to full-time as the service grows, and with current reforms steering more early intervention funding toward NFP providers, that possibility keeps strengthening.

The team

A small multidisciplinary team on one site: an OT, a behaviour support practitioner, and early childhood teachers, with the service manager (a behaviour analyst) meeting regularly with the team for behavioural perspective and clinical support. Collaboration is the default; you'll never carry a caseload alone.

New to autism or the NDIS? The ramp-up is deliberately smooth: structured shadowing and observation over the first few months before you take a full caseload.

The money

$45.00-$51.50 per hour + super (approximately $88,000-$101,500 full-time equivalent).

As an NFP, SDN offers salary packaging up to $15,900 plus a $2,650 meal and entertainment benefit, both pre-tax. The caps don't shrink because you work part-time, so packaging both is worth roughly $5,000 to $6,500 a year in tax saved, or the equivalent of $7,000 - 10,000 extra salary in a private role. Happy to run you through how it works if you're new to salary packaging.

That makes this a strong base alongside private contracting on your other days, and a meaningful boost if you're re-entering the workforce.

About You

Above all: you love working with children. The team is looking for gentle, engaged people who genuinely enjoy kids' company, and that matters more to them than years on the CV.

• Recognised qualification in Speech Pathology, eligibility for SPA membership
• Open to new grads, early-career clinicians, returning-to-work parents, hospital clinicians moving into community paediatrics, and NZ-trained SPs
• You don't need autism or NDIS experience; curiosity about how autistic children communicate, and a play-based, capacity-building instinct, matter more
• WWCC and NDIS Worker Screening (or willing to obtain)

Other Benefits

Paid external monthly supervision of your choice plus internal support, funded professional development, paid parental leave, and discounted SDN childcare.

How To Apply

Apply direct with your resume, or to reach out for a confidential discussion about the caseload, team or the packaging maths, contact David Cameron at Be Recruitment:

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m 0482 078 330.

Be Recruitment is committed to inclusive and equitable recruitment processes. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability and people with lived experience relevant to the communities served.

SDN Children's Services is a child safe organisation. Successful applicants will be subject to screening during recruitment.