• 3 months Fixed-term contract (through to June 2020)
• Part-time role (two days per week)
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to organise your own timetable
• Salary: $75 per hour
• Great South Melbourne location, close to public transportation, shops and cafes

Join as a Contractor with Melbourne's most progressive Housing and Homelessness organisation.

About Us

Launch Housing has an ambitious and singular mission to end homelessness. We aim to get people housed, keep them housed, and be an influential voice on ending homelessness We are a secular, independent provider of choice for clients and the ‘go to' organisation on homelessness for government, media, philanthropy, private donors and the community.

The Role

Are you wanting to make a difference in the lives of children who experience homelessness or and family violence?

This role provides the unique opportunity to work with our most vulnerable cohort of children, with the aim to break cycles of poverty and to disrupt the primary school to prison pipeline.

You will be working closely with social workers, psychologists and schools to provide outreach wrap around care to children who have a trauma history and significant lost learning time.

Flexible working hours and the opportunity to organise your own timetable, this part-time role would suit someone who values work autonomy with a passion for working with disadvantaged children.

• You will implement a wide range of assessments, predominantly in the areas of language, literacy, learning, social skills and speech, to identify individual strengths, challenges and diagnoses.
• You will identify goals for intervention and carefully probe for progress in each session.
• You will provide evidence-based intervention in individual and group formats. Your intervention will consist primarily of targeting language, reading, spelling, written expression, learning, social skills and speech goals derived from your detailed assessments.
• You will regularly liaise with schools and attend meetings to ensure a team-based approach to support.
• You will regularly provide written and verbal information and advice to the individual, their families and other professionals to keep them informed of your progress. ​

About You

To be successful in this role, you will possess the following:

• Degree or Masters in Speech Pathologist and eligibility for membership of discipline specific association
• Valid Driver's Licence and reliable transportation
• Strong knowledge of child development and developmental trauma
• Experience working with children and parents impacted by homelessness, family violence and disadvantage will be advantageous
• Experience working with children who have experienced lost learning time and have gaps within their learning
• Have experience conducting formal CELF-5 assessments and providing feedback to parents and teachers
• All relevant insurances and ABN required to practice as a Contractor

All applicants must have the right to work in Australia and will be required to complete a Working with Children check and Police check. Launch Housing is an Equal Opportunity employer and supports accessible working arrangements for all. This includes people with a disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally, religiously and linguistically diverse people, young people, older people, women, and people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender diverse, intersex or queer. We acknowledge Lived Experience as a unique expertise, and encourage people with a Lived Experience of Homelessness to apply.