Therapies Assistant

4 months ago


Preston, United Kingdom Witherslack Group Full time

**Those Huge Small Victories**

Our clinicians are fulfilled by the idea of affecting even the smallest positive changes in our young people, so we celebrate the little things.

**Get out what you put in**

This role is based at Bridgeway School.

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 a therapies assistant you will work under the direct supervision of the onsite Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist. You’ll support the running of one to one and small group interventions and gather the required information for high quality assessments. Working as part of the team around the child, you’ll also liaise with parents, carers, colleagues and partner agencies to support the best outcomes and environment for our children and young people.

**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/35 days holiday 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 - check out our benefits here
- **contributory pension**: matched up to 5%
- **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 - check out our schools here
- A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 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 120+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way. Here’s what we’ll need from you:

- At least 5 GCSEs (including English)
- You’ll have worked with children and young people with SEMH and/or SEN in similar or other roles.
- Have a good understanding of safeguarding rules and practice.
- A ‘can do’ attitude - a team player who rolls up their sleeves to help others
- We genuinely care about our young people (and each other) so honesty and empathy is a must
- The resilience to be able to deal with challenging situations

**I**nterested 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.
- For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document._
- Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD_


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