Therapy Hive Assistants work in partnership with families and qualified allied professionals, adding an extra dimension to support the child’s therapy plans and programs.
What Is a Therapy Assistant?
Therapy Hive Assistants attend face to face sessions with a child to help the child learn new skills to support their development, wellbeing and participation in the community.
It is a fun and rewarding profession, supporting children to grow and flourish.
Therapy Assistants do not replace an Allied Health professionals and can not make or modify assessments, diagnosis or a treatment plan for a child.
Qualifications Required
Our Therapy Assistants need to be passionate about supporting children to reach their goals. You must be experienced or studying in the following areas:
- Allied Health or Education students studying at university
- Hold a Certificate or Diploma in Allied Health Assistance or Children’s service
- Hold a Degree or higher certification as an Allied Health or Education trained professional
- Hold the required police checks and certificates
All our staff are insured by us. We encourage and support further professional development for all our staff.
How It Works
We connect our Therapy Assistants with the child and parents/carers and the Allied Therapist.
Once the goals are clearly established by the Allied Therapist, Therapy Assistants then attend regular sessions with the child at the agreed location (home, educational or community settings) and time to support the child in achieving their goals.
At the end of each session, Therapy Assistants share information (notes and photos) about the session through our portal. This allows Families, Allied Therapists and Educators (if consented by the family) to keep up to date on the child's progress.
We check in regularly with our clients and staff to ensure regular reviews occur between Families, Allied Therapists and Therapy Assistants. Under the National Disability Insurance Scheme regulations, Therapy Assistants need to connect with the child’s Allied Therapist on a regular basis.
How We Support You
We connect you with the child and families in need of support and ensure the fit is right for all parties.
We format the child's support plan on our easy to use portal and ensure you understand the long and short term goals.
Our online portal makes it easy for you to upload your session notes and photos for collaboration with the intervention team so everyone can see the progress of the child.
We help you to create a tool bag of games and play based ideas to bring to the child’s sessions which support their interest and learning goals.
We provide online learning materials and resources as well as training sessions to support your own professional development.
Stay connected with us and other members of the team through team trainings and catch ups throughout the year.
Therapy Hive will verify your:
- Working with Children Check
- NDIS Orientation Module
- Responding to Abuse, Risk Harm and Neglect Training
- First Aid Training
- We take care of insurance, verifications, tax, etc.
Wages
Therapy Hive Assistants are covered under the Social, Community and Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS).
Pay rates will vary depending on days on times. We pay above the award rates and cover you with our Indemnity Insurance. Please contact us to find out more.
Hours of Work
Therapy Hive Assistants may work between the hours of:
Monday - Friday 8.00am - 6.00pm
Saturdays 9.00am - 5.00pm
Home Support is a minimum 2hrs session.
Social and Community support in other settings is a minimum of 2hrs session.
The hours can be agreed during the ‘getting to know you’ session when meeting a prospective client.
Contact Us
We are currently providing services in Adelaide — South Australia
