Speech & Language Therapist

JR United Kingdom; Windsor; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to making a positive impact on young lives. As a Speech and Language Therapist, you'll work within a collaborative multi-disciplinary team, providing essential therapeutic interventions tailored to the unique needs of children and young people. This role offers the opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment, with access to ongoing clinical development and a commitment to personal growth. Enjoy a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package that includes generous holiday allowances and wellbeing support. If you’re passionate about making a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Full induction and on-the-job training

Full school holidays including bank holidays

Leading programme of clinical learning and development

Flexible benefits including life insurance

Wellbeing tools and advice

Medical cover for appointments

High-street discounts

Beautiful working environments

Recommend a friend scheme with £1,000 bonus

Qualifications

• Be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist registered with the HCPC.
• Proven skills to engage and deliver interventions with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Support educational colleagues to provide therapeutic living environments.
• Assess mental health and recommend interventions in care plans.

Skills

Therapeutic Interventions

Engagement Skills

Organizational Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Education

Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

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£47,663 - £56,576 (pro rata for school holidays) + excellent benefits

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. 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

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

• 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

• 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.