Speech & Language Therapist (52wks)

2 weeks ago


Sunderland, 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 Ashbrooke 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 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.

Our Speech & Language Therapists work collaboratively within our schools and children’s homes, this ensures that therapeutic support permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young people. You will provide consultation, workshops, training and guidance to the educational and residential teams around our children.

**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 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
- **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**

Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs - and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. The kind of person we’re looking for will:

- Be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist registered with the HCPC
- Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to engage and deliver therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs
- Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences
- Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.
- Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative
- Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

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.

**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.
- 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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