Package Description:
Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same:
To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.
As a Senior Speech and Language Therapist, you will work in special school settings, supporting pupils with a range of complex learning needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities.
The ideal candidate will have experience working in an educational setting and delivering therapy services at universal, targeted, and specialist levels. You will collaborate with teaching and support staff to ensure universal communication strategies are effectively implemented, fostering a shared responsibility for supporting students’ communication needs throughout the school day.
Working Pattern
: 22.5 hours worked over 41 weeks per year (Term Time)
Salary : £21,498.76 pro rated based on hours and weeks worked. (Full time equivalent salary is £39,327)
Location: Stockport
You will be expected to support the ethos of a wider clinical services and the Together Trust
Key Responsibilities but are not limited to;
Manage a clinical case load of student, working in collaboration with teachers, class teams and wider MDT
Liaise with parents, families and carers, advise on issues relating to the development of speech, language and other communication skills
Provide clinical supervision to more junior SaLT colleagues
Provide assessment reports ad intervention plans for individual pupils
Ensure clinical practice is up to date and based on agreed best clinical and evidence base.
Participate in relevant education/training opportunities, read and critically appraise research articles in professional journals and utilise audit and research in daily practice
Maintain personal CPD portfolio in order to meet RCSLT & HCPC registration requirements
About you;
Degree in speech and language therapy
Evidence of recent professional development
Current registration with RCSLT and Health care professionals council (HCPC)
Experience of using standardised assessments
Experience of working in special educational settings
Experience of working with young people and adults with complex needs including Autism and with profound and multiple learning needs
knowledge of relevant SaLT assessment and outcome measure
Knowledge of relevant safe guarding requirement and how to help young people with communication difficulties stay safe.
Knowledge of clinical governance
Commitment to equality and diversity
Benefits
Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you
Together Trust | £21,000 - £23,000 per annum | Cheadle |