Speech and Language Therapist

Speech and Language Therapist
Location: Minehead, Somerset.
Salary:  £29,885.93 - £43,645.39 (FTE £32,302.40 - £47,174.40)
Hours: 40 hours per week – Term time only/42 weeks
Contract: 12 month FTC

Teaching Personnel have a great opportunity to work with a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities situated in Minehead.

The main purpose of the role

 As the Speech and Language Therapist, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the therapy service. The speech and language therapists provide a high standard of assessment and intervention to young people. They provide and deliver treatment plans that work alongside the young persons’ EHCP.  This role is also ideal for a newly qualified practitioner, who would benefit from clinical supervision and training from Specialist Speech and Language Therapists in the team.

 Key duties

• Work within a small team, managing a caseload of young people with a varying degree of 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.
• The setting offers a wide range of opportunities for practical and innovative direct therapy.
• Provide speech and language therapy interventions, as required for individuals, groups and within education, vocational and residential 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.
• Develop 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.

If this opportunity is for you please send your CV to Abigail Simpson

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All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.
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