Speech & Language Therapist

Location: Berkeley, South Gloucestershire

Salary: £12,150.24 - £13,522.64 (FTE £35,360.00 - £39,354.00)

Hours: 16 hours per week – Term Time Only

Aurora Severnside is a bespoke school for 11-16 year olds with SEMH needs, having taken the best elements of a mainstream school and the best elements of a special school to create an environment where young people can achieve their own goals and thrive in a future of their own choosing. We aim to prepare students for life beyond school, so further education and employability is truly at the heart of our culture and ethos. 

The main purpose of the role:

As our Speech and Language Therapist; your role will be to work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team by making initial and ongoing assessments of our students speech, language and social communication skills, develop, implement and review communication programmes, and deliver speech and language therapy interventions, direct and indirect, 1:1 or in small groups, as appropriate.

To facilitate this, you’ll be expected to plan, provide and further develop an integrated Speech and Language Therapy service to the students at Severnside School, covering communication needs.

Additionally you’ll supervise and provide support and guidance to our therapy assistants and support staff where appropriate.

Naturally, you will take responsibility for writing professional assessment reports following assessments and progress reports for annual review of EHCP, and contribute to the development of the wider service implementation plan in respect of the speech and language therapy input.

Duties will vary, for a full job description please contact Adele from the recruitment team: Adele.Richard@the-aurora-group.com  

Skills and Qualifications

Successful candidate qualities:

• To be a registered member of RCSLT and HCPC.
• To hold a professional Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent.
• Have at least two years’ post-graduate experience working as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist.
• Working with children or young people with learning disabilities
• Working with children or young people with an Autistic Spectrum Condition
• Have experience or knowledge of delivering provision through the EHCP process
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Life assurance
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Fully funded training and qualifications
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Apply/Enquiries 

If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com  

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.