Speech & Language Therapist

Location: Minehead, Somerset.

Salary: £36,775.28 - £43,645.39 (FTE £39,748.80 - £47,174.40)

Hours: 40 hours per week – Term time only/42 weeks

Contract: 12 month FTC

Welcome to Aurora Foxes, an educational establishment with residential provision. We are a specialist college and training hotel for young people (16-25 years) with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place, where students work at our fully operating hotel and are integrated into the community here at Minehead. We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.

The main purpose of the role is to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the therapy service based at Aurora Foxes. Our 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.
• Analyse and interpret assessment findings to recommend and deliver the best course of intervention for each young person.
• 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.
• Provide accessible written guidelines and training to enable these programmes to be delivered by others.
• Develop sound understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk and 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.
• Provide training to staff, carers and other professionals as and when required.

Aurora Foxes provides regular training for its staff. Therapists also have regular opportunities to engage in peer supervision with Speech and Language therapists spanning the entire Aurora Group.

Skills and Qualifications:

• To be a registered member of RCSLT and HCPC.
• To hold a professional Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent.
• To work within the RCSLT clinical guidelines and HCPC standards.
• Previous experience of working in an education setting as a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy student.
• Experience in implementing a range of approaches in supporting young people with learning disabilities.
• Experience in a wide variety of communication styles and can effectively overcome barriers to communication with students, staff, families and other professionals.

Benefits and Additional Information:

• Regular clinical and managerial support including completion of NQP framework.
• Peer supervision within the larger SaLT team across the Aurora sites.
• Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
• Professional ongoing fees funded.
• 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel.
• Life assurance and pension.
• Health cash back plan.
• Car lease scheme.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Perk box.
• Free parking.
• A unique setting in which to work with an inspiring team of professionals and clientele group.

If you are interested in this role then please apply online and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com and one of our therapists will be in touch to talk through the opportunity in more detail.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions in order to assess their suitability to work with children. The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.

This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.