Who we are
Acorn Paediatric Allied Health was founded after regularly seeing gaps in stable support provision for paediatric consumers. Acorn’s founder Jess has been passionate about working with children since experiencing a university placement working on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a teaching hospital in Karnataka, India. After having the opportunity to support families and babies going through immense challenge with both direct interventions and advocacy, Jess knew her career would be most fulfilling when working within the paediatric space. However, upon returning to Australia and working within paediatrics Jess both witnessed and experienced being short staffed and under the pump with too many consumers to service and not enough clinicians to provide services. Ergo the development of Acorn Paediatric Allied Health. Jess’s aim for Acorn is to be a trusted company, for clients to feel both seen and heard and to receive the quality services that they both need and deserve. Acorn Paediatric Allied Health has been developed with the values of Honesty, Education, Connection and Care with the underlying intent that every client experiences these values with every visit from the Acorn team.
Our Team
Jess is Acorn Paediatric Allied Health’s Founder and Principal Occupational Therapist. Jess grew up in the Riverland South Australia and after completing her Bachelors and then Master’s degree’s at Flinders University in Adelaide returned to the Riverland to work rurally for the start of her career. Over the course of her career so far Jess has remained steadfast in her passion for paediatrics and providing consistent and quality occupational therapy supports to children, families and support networks. Jess is passionate about client advocacy and seeing positive outcomes across the areas that matter most to her clients. Jess works with children living with disability, developmental delay, chronic illness and trauma, abuse and neglect backgrounds. Jess is incredibly passionate about Trauma Informed Practice and takes pride in providing evidence based, consistent and stable care for children who need it most.
