Speech & Language Therapist

Overview

Actual take home pay £36,507 - £44,103 + excellent benefits. This role is based at Pontville School. You will be working as part of a large MDT, and within an embedded Speech Therapy team. Pontville School is an independent specialist day school providing quality education with a focus on speech, language and social communication. Many of our pupils are autistic with high levels of anxiety. 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.

Responsibilities

• Work within a multi-disciplinary clinical team to support educational and residential colleagues in delivering therapeutic living and learning environments.
• Base interventions on clinical assessment and formulation; provide individualised interventions and engagement for young people.
• Assess young people’s mental health and contribute to personalised care plans with appropriate interventions.
• Build rapport to enable effective counselling and feedback on progress.

What we offer

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 :

Qualifications

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.

To view our full job description and person specification, please contact the recruitment team. This post may be subject to further safeguarding requirements as appropriate for the role.

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

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