Band 7​/Senior Speech & Language Therapist

Job Title:Senior Speech & Language Therapist
Banding:Band 7/8a
Location:Windsor, Berkshire
Start Date:ASAP
Duration:Permanent
Salary:£49,717 – £57,413 per annum (including paid school holidays) + excellent benefits
Working Hours:Full-time

We are currently recruiting on behalf of our client for a highly experienced and passionate

Senior Speech & Language Therapist to join their team at Queensmead House School in Windsor. Queensmead House School is located on a historic site with views of Windsor Castle. This inspiring setting, with a rich heritage of education, is now home to a specialist learning environment that was recently ratedGoodby Ofsted.

Check out this video on whatlife as a Speech & Language Therapist at Witherslack Group is like!

Key Responsibilities

QHS is an independent specialist day school, offering both primary and secondary education. The school supports a diverse group of pupils with complex educational needs, communication difficulties, and challenging behaviours.

Clinicians at the school are an integral part of one of the most joined-up models in SEND. Across all of the client’s specialist schools and children’s homes, they provide exceptional levels of clinical support, both in terms of expertise and the breadth of provision. The young people they support often present with a complexity of need, including developmental trauma, neurodevelopmental conditions, and special educational needs.

As part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, the Senior Speech & Language Therapist will support both educational and residential colleagues in creating therapeutic living and learning environments. Based on clinical assessment and formulation, they will deliver individualised interventions and engage directly with young people to support their development.

Senior Speech & Language Therapists work collaboratively across the school and children’s homes, ensuring that therapeutic support is embedded in every aspect of education, care, and support. They also provide consultation, lead workshops, and deliver training and guidance to educational and residential teams working with the children.

What’s in it for you

For your hard work and commitment, they reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With them, 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 days holiday including bank holidays
• Clinical Development:
  If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, they provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development
• Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out their benefits here
• Wellbeing:a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
• Medical coverso you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host ofhigh-street discounts
• Beautiful working environmentswith the very best facilities – check out their schools here
• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 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 their 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 they’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…