Speech & Language Therapist

JR United Kingdom; Rugby; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job description

£42,187 - £50,964 + excellent benefits (pro-rata for term time)

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 Avon Park School, and is a maternity cover post.

The transformational effect of Avon Park School is consistently witnessed by parents, carers and professionals alike. The school’s ability to connect and engage with pupils is a result of its strong ethos of “high expectations and aspirations for every child” – and recently achieved a Good rating by Ofsted.

All school staff, including teaching, pastoral and therapy, work in a truly collaborative way to ensure each pupil not only develops academically but also emotionally and personally. This ‘whole school’ commitment sees pupils with ADHD, autism, Asperger’s or SEMH grow into capable and confident young people who want to succeed.

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. You’ll also be assessing our young people’s mental health and recommend appropriate interventions in a personalised care plan. Building rapport is key, by doing this you’ll be able to deliver effective counselling and feedback on progress.

What we do for you

• 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

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

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

• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities

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

Bring your whole self to work

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. Here’s a few things we’ll need from you:

• 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

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.

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