About the job

A note for any SP running their own NDIS business right now

Most of the speechies I've spoken to lately are running their own show because someone, somewhere, told them it would mean more freedom.

What it's actually meant in 2026: doing your own scheduling, your own invoicing, your own NDIS plan reviews, your own service agreements, your own GST, and trying to deliver therapy somewhere in the gaps. All while the funding ground keeps shifting under everyone's feet.

If that's where you are, this might be the post you needed to see.

I'm Alison McDonald. I founded Newcastle Speech Pathology in 2012 because I wanted to build the kind of practice I would have killed to work in as a younger clinician. 14 years on, we've supported more than 2,600 clients, we have a full admin team, and I'm hiring a speech pathologist to join our Kurri Kurri clinic in the Hunter Valley, starting as soon ...