Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Clinical Lead

We are excited to share that we have a new role to our service due to the expansion of the Sherwood Manor School. We are looking for a band 7 SALT who can provide clinical supervision and therapies oversight of this setting, working across a trans-disciplinary team.

Do you want to be part of a large transdisciplinary team of dedicated teaching staff, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists and wellbeing practitioners helping children aged 4 to 19 years with complex needs?

Do you have a passion for working with children, a growth mindset and are confident, enthusiastic, calm, and adaptable. We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our therapy team at Sherwood Manor and are seeking an enthusiastic speech and language therapist to join our friendly and supportive team in a leadership capacity. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team providing leadership and supervision to an allocated team of therapists within the service. This role will include own specialist caseload and supporting the team to deliver innovative and evidence-based therapy interventions and an embedded model of therapy in order to best support the pupils needs.

Main duties of the job

Overseeing and delivering provision for pupils in one or more specialist areas and providing specialist advice to other disciplines

Assessing and treating own caseload as part of a trans-disciplinary and multidisciplinary team

Clinical supervision for a group of therapists within the team including clinical governance

Leading and contributing to service development and related policies

Experience with low and high tech AAC assessment and intervention

Understanding and experience of play based approaches such as DIR Floortime

A passion for neuroaffirming approaches

An understanding and experience working with students who present as gestalt language processors

A wish to work with children of all ages with highly complex needs

A growth mindset

Confidence, enthusiasm and a passion for learning

The ability to work as part of an integrated team of professionals

A friendly, supportive and collaborative working environment

The opportunity to deliver a wide range of evidence based interventions with your caseload and further develop highly specialist assessment and intervention skills

Onsite support from an enthusiastic and dedicated team of experienced therapy and teaching staff

Regular supervision, continued professional development and training