Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

This role has a competitive starting salary of £34,162 per annum for 36 hours per week across 42 weeks per year (term time + 3 weeks of holiday working), pro-rata to £36,873.

Were looking for a Speech and Language Therapist who is early in their career, eager to receive excellent support and supervision, and interested in working with school-aged children!

Whether youre about to graduate in Speech and Language Therapy, or have recently achieved your NQP framework goals, this is the perfect opportunity to join a team that will support your journey to becoming an autonomous practitioner in specialist and mainstream schools across the Guildford and Waverley areas.

Our Offer to You

• We pay your RCSLT membership and HCPC fees!
• Flexible working
• Comprehensive clinical supervision programme including a buddy, 1:1 meetings with line manager (weekly for NQPs for the first 3 months moving to monthly over the first year, at your pace), extensive training opportunities, access to clinical effectiveness groups, case study groups and an NQP / Band 5 group, termly study days, encouragement to join and attend CENs relating to practice
• A mixed and varied caseload across settings and age groups
• Termly themed study days for the whole SALT team
• Enhanced support to take you through your competencies
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to support health and wellbeing
• Up to 5 days of carers leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
• A generous local government salary related pension

Main duties of the job

The role of a Speech and Language Therapist is varied and no two days will be the same, however you can expect to be involved with the following:

• Clinical decision making in conjunction with school staff and evidence-based practice, around the level of support needed to achieve the best possible outcome for the Children and Young People (CYP) on your defined caseload
• Working with Assistants, setting targets for the CYP you are jointly supporting and monitoring the delivery and outcomes of their work
• Assessment, advice and intervention for CYP with a range of SLCN within your caseload Prioritisation and caseload management

About us

Our large and friendly team of Speech & Language Therapists and Speech & Language Therapy Assistants work across mainstream and special schools in Surrey.

We are part of Surrey's offer to support children with Additional Needs and Disabilities, working collaboratively with the Inclusion and Additional Needs Team and other areas like Educational Psychology and Specialist Teaching.

Our tiered model supports universal, targeted and specialist intervention for children, families and the school workforce; making sure we deliver the right support at the right time to children and young people, with and without EHCPs.