After-school community hours for Gold Coast kids, and tutoring for Griffith health students. Same person each week. Not occupational therapy.
“I’m an OT student. I don’t do therapy. I help everyday life get practised.”
Haleena · Griffith Gold CoastYear 1 is after-school community support and tutoring. Nothing else. No clinic. No “sensory therapy”. No reports.
A regular weekday block — park, shops, library, beach, homework at a table. The outing has a point. Same person every week. A four-line note after every shift.
Through Hireup or a local provider · Gold Coast, typically 3:30–6:00
Griffith first-year anatomy, physiology and psychology — the units she is in. Year 11–12 Biology and Psychology on the Coast. We do the actual content.
Private · about $55–$60/hr · campus, library or online
Not a program. Not a clinic session. A real outing with a beginning, a middle, and an exit before anyone is overloaded.
Fifteen minutes at the house. Goals in the family’s words. Food, noise, exits, hands.
Agree one thing: buy afternoon tea and sit at the park for fifteen minutes.
Do the thing. Keep it small. Leave while it is still going well.
A four-line note before she drives off. Clinical questions go back to your OT.
Griffith University
Gold Coast campus
First-year OT.
First-year occupational therapy at Griffith, Parklands Drive. Blue Card, NDIS worker screening and first aid before paid shifts start. She is building a small, regular book — two families and two tutoring clients is a full year 1.
If a shift starts to look clinical, she stops and points you back to a registered OT. That is the whole point of being careful now: she intends to still be in this work when she graduates.
Parents, support coordinators, and students. A short note is enough. If Hireup is easier, ask for Haleena — Gold Coast, after-school community hours.
She will not start NDIS work until screening is issued. Tutoring can start sooner.