Speech and Language Therapist

Location: Minehead, Somerset.

Salary:  £26,595.58 - £36,410.02 (FTE £28,746.00 - £39,354.00)

Hours: 40 hours per week – Term time only 

Welcome to Foxes Academy, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.

We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.

The main purpose of the role:

As our Speech and Language Therapist, you work as a dynamic speech and language therapist as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the therapy service based at Aurora Foxes Academy. To provide a high standard of speech and language therapy assessment and intervention to young people, including advice and training to relevant parents, carers and professionals in line with proposed treatment plans.

Key duties:

• Provide a speech and language therapy service, which is run in an efficient manner so that young people’s needs are met effectively.
• Work autonomously, managing a caseload of young people with complex needs within a special education setting.
• Undertake assessment of young people with a wide range of additional communication needs. To analyse and interpret assessment findings to recommend and deliver the best course of intervention for each young person.
• Provide speech and language therapy interventions, as required for individuals, groups and within education areas.
• Develop, implement and review individualised speech, language and communication programmes. To enable these programmes to be delivered by others the therapist will provide accessible written guidelines and training.
• Demonstrate sound understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk and to demonstrate the use of treatment plans with an evidence-based link.
• Attend appropriate reviews and team meetings, promoting our culture of joint working with other disciplines and outside agencies.
• Liaise and work with other relevant agencies or professionals to gain and share information as required, (medical professionals, therapists, dieticians etc.), to include attendance at appointments where necessary e.g. transitions.

Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required.

Skills and Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Qualifications:

• To be a registered member of RCSLT and HCPC.
• To hold a professional Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent.
• To work within the RCSLT clinical guidelines and HCPC standards.

Experience:

• Previous experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist.
• Experience in implementing a wide range of approaches in supporting young people with social communication difficulties.
• Experience of preparing complex reports
• Fluent in written and spoken English with the ability to communicate complex information in a clear manner to a range of audiences including young people, parents, and professionals.

Benefits and Additional Information

What’s on offer?

• Full training and continued support 
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
• Life assurance and pension
• Health cash back plan
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme 
• Perk box
• Free parking

 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.