Senior Speech & Language Therapist. Job in Windsor Education & Training Jobs

Witherslack Group; Windsor; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care organization in Windsor is seeking a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join their multi-disciplinary team. This role focuses on providing therapeutic interventions and supporting educational colleagues to improve the lives of children and young people with complex needs. The ideal candidate will hold a HCPC qualification and have experience engaging with youth. Competitive salary and excellent benefits are offered, including training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Training and on-the-job development

Full school holidays

Clinical development programs

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing tools and advice

Medical cover

High-street discounts

Beautiful working environments

Recommend a friend scheme with bonuses

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with children and young people with complex needs.
• Ability to deliver therapeutic interventions effectively.
• Experience in supporting teams around children.

Responsibilities

• Support educational and residential colleagues.
• Provide individualized interventions based on clinical assessments.
• Consult and provide training to educational teams.

Skills

Engagement with young people

Therapeutic interventions

Team collaboration

Organizational skills

Effective communication

Education

HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Role overview

£49,717 - £57,413 (including paid school holidays) + excellent benefits Those Huge Small Victories

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things. Check out this video on what life as a Speech & Language Therapist at Witherslack Group is like!

Get out what you put in

This role is based at Queensmead House School.

Queensmead House School is located on a historic site with views of Windsor Castle. This inspiring setting, with a rich heritage of education, is now home to a specialist learning environment recently rated Good by Ofsted.

QHS is an independent specialist day school, with both primary and secondary settings providing high quality education. The school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with complex educational needs, communication difficulties and challenging behaviours.

Our clinicians are a crucial part of the most joined-up model in SEND. Across all of our specialist schools and children's homes, we provide unrivalled levels of clinical support, both in terms of our expertise and breadth of provision. Our young people present with a complexity of need including developmental trauma, neuro-developmental conditions and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team you will be supporting educational and residential colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and based on clinical assessment and formulation, offer individualised interventions and engagement to our young people.

Our Senior Speech & Language Therapists work collaboratively within our schools and children's homes, this ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educational and residential teams around our children.

What we do for you

We know you're going to do great things. For your hard work
and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you'll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people - plus you'll get:

• Training: A full induction and on the job training

• Holiday: You'll work hard at WG, so you'll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays

• Clinical Development: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, we provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development

• Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance - check out our benefits here

• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance

• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts

• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities - check out our schools here

• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time

Bring your whole self to work

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs - and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we're looking for will:

• Be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist registered with the HCPC

• Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to engage and deliver therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs

• Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences

• Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.

• Be highly organised and ready to take the
  initiative

• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

• Be a member of a multi-disciplinary team, receiving regular supervision and supported in your CPD

• Have lengthy sector experience and a background in team supervision are all vital

• Be a car driver, as there's some travel involved

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within our living and learning environments you will be offered the support, resource and platform for you to do great things. You'll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 220+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way.

Interested in joining us?

Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.

The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.

For a full job description and person specification, please click here .

To view our ex-offenders policy please click here .

To view our Child Protection Policy, please visit the 'Parents and Carers' section of this School/Learning centre. You can find all our Schools here .

Special Education/Careers in Care/Careers in Special Education/Working with Children/SEMH/SEN/ASD