GBEA winner – Health and Wellbeing Promoting Workplace Award – Flying Start Children’s Therapy

Flying Start Children’s Therapy strives to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the children and families it supports, as well as the staff it employs.

Working with children with developmental delays and disabilities between the ages of 0 and 14, the business provides a broad range of professional services to support its clients’ ongoing development and enable them to be the best they can be.

Delivered by a passionate team of allied health professionals all housed under the one roof, these services include occupational therapy, speech pathology, dietetics, physiotherapy, psychology and play therapy.

Flying Start Children’s Therapy provides these services at its state-of-the-art Torquay clinic and via telehealth, as well as at the clients’ home, school or kindergarten, taking an evidence-based strengths and neurodiversity affirming perspective that acknowledges and encourages a child’s unique abilities.

In recognition of the ‘village’ that surrounds a child, the business also works with its clients’ support networks to help develop the skills that will support the child to thrive socially, emotionally and behaviourally.

Within the business, Flying Start Children’s Therapy works hard to cultivate a supportive environment and culture for its staff that is focused on growth, connection, opportunity and purpose.

Its workforce is encouraged to think big, empowered to take charge of their own careers and supported through a wide variety of initiatives and incentives, from professional development opportunities to free access to trained clinicians and wellbeing resources through its employee assistance program (EAP).

To promote a healthy balance between life and work, Flying Start Children’s Therapy encourages its staff to participate in extracurricular activities and offers flexible working hours and bonus leave arrangements that allow staff to pursue their personal interests.

Flying Start Children’s Therapy’s commitment to nurturing its staff and creating a clinic that is more than a workplace impressed the judging panel, securing it the Health and Wellbeing Promoting Workplace Award, sponsored by Barwon Health.

The award celebrates a business that has demonstrated a recognition of, and commitment to, deliver health and wellbeing workplace initiatives.

Flying Start Children’s Therapy was also shortlisted by the judges for accolades in the medium to large business, employer of choice and inclusive and accessible business award categories.

“The judges thought that Flying Start Children’s Therapy was smashing the health and wellbeing of their staff out of the park,” chair of the judging panel Simon Flowers said.

“They really do care about the health and wellbeing of their staff, with dedicated activities ranging from EAP, fitness challenges, healthy snack options, work life balance with flexible hours, regular speakers on a variety of health subjects, dieticians, flu vacs, coffee cards and joy surveys, just to name a few.”

To find out more, head to flyingstartchildrenstherapy.com.au

Sponsored by Barwon Health.

Barwon Health is this year’s sponsor of the Health and Wellbeing Promoting Workplace Award.

Barwon Health is the region’s leading health service, and it aims to work together with the community to build healthier lives inspired by world-class standards.

With its consumers at the forefront, Barwon Health excels in delivering efficient, integrated care, education and research to advance health and wellbeing for all.

Working across five pillars, Barwon Health is committed to respecting the people it works with, showing compassion always, the highest quality in everything it does, being accountable and driving innovation for better care.

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