Speech Pathologist | Flexible FT/PT Hours | NDIS Focused

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Ability Action Australia is hiring a Speech Pathologist to support NDIS participants on the Sunshine Coast with flexible full-time or part-time hours, onsite in Noosaville/Maroochydore and across home, school, and community settings via telehealth. You’ll work in a strengths-based, collaborative MDT, deliver tailored assessments and evidence-based interventions, mentor junior clinicians, manage a caseload, and ensure NDIS compliance. Essential: Certified Practising Membership with Speech Pathology Australia, post-graduate experience, strong organisation, growth mindset, a genuine passion for disability, and a team-first attitude. Highlight outcomes across settings, collaboration with OTs, physiotherapists and psychologists, and your ability to balance priorities; show adaptability for flexible hours and inclusion in recruitment.

Company Description

Our Sunshine Coast team has been delivering life-changing support to NDIS participants, and now we’re looking for a passionate and motivated Speech Pathologist to join us.

At Ability Action Australia, you’ll help people achieve their goals in the environments where it matters most—home, school, clinic, telehealth and the wider community. #AAA

Job Description

Why You'll Love Working with Us

At Ability Action Australia, we are all about empowerment, collaboration, and evidence-based practice.

We take a strengths-based approach to every assessment, treatment plan, and intervention, fostering a fun, team-first culture where every win is celebrated.

Here’s how we work:

• Diverse Settings: Work across diverse environments—home, school, or the community—where real-world skills can be put into action.
• Collaborative Approach: Join an incredible multi-disciplinary team, including OTs, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Psychologists, and Behaviour Support Practitioners.
• Tailored Assessments: Combine standardised and non-standardised assessments tailored to each participant’s unique needs.

Your Role Will Include:

• Managing a caseload and delivering therapy services in a timely, impactful way.
• Supporting participants across settings—home, school, clinic (Maroochydore office), telehealth and the broader community.
• Using clinical observations and standardised assessments to inform therapy goals.
• Delivering evidence-based interventions that improve quality of life.
• Collaborating with a supportive multi-disciplinary team.
• Mentoring junior clinicians (for experienced therapists).
• Ensuring compliance with current NDIS requirements.

Qualifications

What You Will Need:

• Certified Practising Membership with Speech Pathology Australia.
• Post-graduate experience as a Speech Pathologist.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• A proactive, growth-oriented mindset.
• A fun, team-first approach to work.
• A genuine passion for working in the disability sector.

Additional Information

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.