Speech & Language Therapist

**£36,507 - £44,103 (includes paid school holidays) + excellent benefits**

**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**

Abbeywood School is an independent specialist day school providing high quality education for boys and girls. Based in Rotherham, the school meets the needs of a diverse group of pupils with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, alongside a range of other associated conditions.

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. You’ll also be assessing our young people’s mental health and recommend appropriate interventions in a personalised care plan. Building rapport is key, by doing this you’ll be able to deliver effective counselling and feedback on progress.

**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 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**

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 220+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way. Here’s a few things we’ll need from you:

- 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

**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.
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- Special Education / Careers in Care / Careers in Special Education / Working with Children / SEMH / SEN / ASD_