At SPTG, we offer freedom, flexibility, and genuine support in your placement journey.
Forget four walls! Everyday will be in a different environment with a variety of clients across all ages and needs, including experience with mental health interventions, assistive technology, life skills, and more.
Our process at SPTG is to never over commit and under deliver in any aspect including student support and learning. We love supporting students into what can be an unfamiliar draughting environment & supporting them to thrive!
We aim to take two students every year spread between Griffith University, Southern Cross University and soon to be Bond University. We love inclusivity and trying to help and support students in many different ways, which includes one on one support and also in groups of one to four support & supervision.
Our team also love supporting allied health students with extra shadowing and volunteering opportunities. We make it easy and flexible around your current university requirements. As a multidisciplinary mobile team, you do have the option of shadowing our Exercise physiologists’s, Physiotherapists or Occupational Therapists.
If your interested in these opportunities to grab hold of some real-life community experience with a team that will show you the ropes, please reach out to us and we can get things organised for you.
We recognise in general, that community allied health can be left out of typical education and placements, therefore becomes very daunting and confusing, which can leave a student feeling overwhelmed and lead to avoiding the whole opportunity altogether.
Please allow us to take you under our wing and show you what its really like to be in the community with a supported team with exceptional values. We will show you the ropes of how things should be done like training, transitions into clinical cases, true support including personal and professional growth. The feeling of appreciation and acknowledgement and not just out on your own as a number is found with us!
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Our team support you through both NDIS and My Aged Care systems for best client care and easy application, to allow for an efficient balanced day on the road.
You’ll work with a diverse range of clients including NDIS participants (our main client base), Aged Care/ HCP clients, private health insurance clients, and Medicare recipients. Ages range from pediatric to aged care, with a diverse range of conditions & disabilities, including mental health/ psychiatric conditions.
All our services are delivered in clients’ homes across Gold Coast, Logan, Toowoomba, and Tweed Heads. You’ll travel between appointments with your supervisor, learning how to adapt OT interventions to not only home environments but in their kindies, schools or supported living accommodation. We also have a fully-enclosed, air-conditioned mobile clinic with two treatment rooms (currently used as office space).
Absolutely! Since ~80% of our clients are NDIS participants, you’ll get comprehensive training on NDIS plan management, service agreements, progress reporting, and the complex documentation requirements. This is an invaluable experience for community practice in which you will be very supported through.
You’ll have direct supervision from our experienced OTs during client visits, regular supervision & support meetings, and support from our multidisciplinary team including our clinical lead sarah and our physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and allied health assistants. You will receive a smooth, supported transition into the clinical world of client therapies in the different community environments. This broad exposure offers a valuable opportunity to explore your areas of interest and develop confidence across different clinical populations and service types.
We can discuss transport arrangements during placement setup. Our team travels between clients across multiple regions, so reliable transport is important for community-based practice. A typical day would involve a car pool with your supervising OT, which maximises your opportunities to spend time discussing, prepping and learning.
Our operating hours are Monday to Friday 8:30am-5pm. Placement schedules can be flexible within these hours to accommodate your university requirements and our team’s working schedules.
Yes! You’ll work alongside our physiotherapists, exercise physiologists, and allied health assistants, attending team meetings and potentially observing collaborative care approaches.
We offer telehealth consultations Australia-wide, so you may have opportunities to observe or participate in remote service delivery. We are a very innovative team and try to provide people with good quality therapy no matter where they are, so they don’t miss out & everyone has an opportunity for help.
We work with your university’s assessment requirements and can use their standard forms or adapt our internal evaluation processes to meet academic standards.
Just let us know your contact details, where you are located and what type of service you are interested in. We will then get back to you as soon as possible to discuss a date and time that suits both yourself and our travel schedule.
Providing mobile Allied Health Services and NDIS-aligned supports. We empower independence through professional care delivered directly to your home.
Support at Home (Aged Care) and NDIS services, delivering allied health support across all ages and stages of care.
