Allied Health Assistant Pay Rates
What are the pay rates for Allied Health Assistants? Working as an Allied Health Assistant (also known as a Therapy Assistant) offers a flexible and rewarding opportunity to gain paid, practical, and hands-on therapy experience.
We provide industry-leading pay for Allied Health Assistants and ensure you feel like a valued member of our team. As an employee, not a contractor, you receive full support from our team, including casual and penalty loading, superannuation, and comprehensive insurance.
Furthermore, we handle all verification, insurance, tax, and superannuation, allowing you to focus on the crucial task of helping clients achieve their therapy goals.
Industry leading pay
All Allied Health Assistants receive a minimum payment of $67.20 (inclusive of super) for each session
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Allied Health Assistant Pay Rates
For sessions that are less than 2 hours long, you will receive a minimum payment of:
| Weekdays (Monday – Friday) | $67.20 |
| Saturdays | $85.50 |
| Sundays | $110.05 |
| Public Holidays | Less than 2 hour sessions are not permitted |
For sessions that are 2 hours long or more, you will receive an hourly rate for each hour worked:
| Weekdays (Monday – Friday) | $39.78 per hour |
| Saturdays | $54.15 per hour |
| Sundays | $68.51 per hour |
| Public Holidays | $71.83 per hour |
These longer sessions will also include a payment of $6.30 for note taking
For sessions that are less than 2 hours long, you will receive a minimum payment of:
| Weekdays (Monday – Friday) | $60.80 |
| Saturdays | $77.40 |
| Sundays | $99.60 |
| Public Holidays | Less than 2 hour sessions are not permitted |
For sessions that are 2 hours long or more, you will receive an hourly rate for each hour worked:
| Weekdays (Monday – Friday) | $36.00 per hour |
| Saturdays | $49.00 per hour |
| Sundays | $62.00 per hour |
| Public Holidays | $65.00 per hour |
These longer sessions will also include a payment of $5.70 for note taking
Client session fee breakdown
The Allied Health Assistant pay rate comes out of what the client pays, or covers with their funding, to work with an AHA. This graph shows the breakdown.
Frequently asked pay questions
Payroll is every fortnight. To be paid correctly and for your client to be invoiced accurately, please ensure you log your assist after your session or within 24 hours.
If you have any questions about logging your assist, please email us at info@foratherapy.com or call us on 1800 921 422.
Your sessions may not have been logged before the cut-off day for payroll. This means that you will be paid for these sessions in the next pay period.
Please call us on 1800 921 422 as soon as possible so we can fix the error that was logged.
All the allied health assistants working for Fora are directly employed by Fora Pty Ltd. This allows us to ensure our allied health assistants are covered by the appropriate insurances, and are entitled to fair wages and benefits.
We do not hire independent contractors.
Fora provides comprehensive insurance cover for our allied health assistants.
Every allied health assistant is covered by Public Liability, Professional Indemnity and Worker’s Compensation insurance.
We’ve created a new minimum pay rate for sessions under 2 hours long as you’ll be paid for a minimum of 2 hours whenever you’re engaged by a client from July 1st 2022.
Since the minimum session time for most clients is 1.5 hours, many client will opt for 1.5-hour sessions and not 2-hour sessions. In which case Fora will still pay you at the minimum 2-hour rate for sessions like these.
Fora has a 1.5 hour minimum session time for all sessions, except public holidays which have a 2-hour minimum.
Client’s utilising Core Support funding have a 2-hour minimum for all sessions.
The number of hours you’re likely to work depends on each individual client.
Clients typically have a 1.5-hour minimum session time, and some have a 2-hour minimum. Please ask us if you’re not sure what your client has.
So if you are working with 1 client, your minimum hours per week would be 1.5 or 2 hours. Make sure you’re reminding them that if they want sessions shorter than their minimum, they’ll still be charged according to their minimum.
You are expected to work with each client long-term (ideally more than 6 months), as often it takes a month or two to get familiar with the individual and their therapy routine.
If you would like more hours you can elect to take on more clients. But is essential that you don’t over-commit or promise to work with clients when you don’t think you could commit to working with them for at least 6 months.
You will receive a link to join YourPay by MYOB. It stores your 5 most recent payslips.
Please do not use this app to put in your hours.
If you work in excess of 5 hours, you will be entitled to an unpaid meal break of 30 minutes.
As your employment is on a casual basis, you are not entitled to paid annual leave, personal/carer’s leave and compassionate leave. You are, however, entitled to unpaid compassionate leave in accordance with the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (“FWA”).
You are entitled to reasonably seek a day off on a public holiday in the State or Territory in which you are employed.
If you are required to work and choose to accept a shift on a Public Holiday, you will be compensated in accordance with the applicable award (if any).
FairWork is a government organisation that decides the minimum standards for employees. When creating jobs, all employers must comply with the rules FairWork sets out.
Fora’s allied health assistants (AHAs) fall under the Social Community Home and Disability Services (SHADS) Award. Any changes that occur to this award will affect Fora and our AHAs.
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