Speech & Language Therapist (Band 5/6)

Up to £42,618 per annum (depending on your experience) plus HCAS Fringe payment

40 hours per week, 42 weeks (Mon-Fri)

Permanent

Lingfield, Surrey

Young Epilepsy and St. Piers is committed to safeguarding and protecting our children and young people and promotes the welfare of all learners.

As part of our safer recruitment process and in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance, online searches will form part of this process.

An Enhanced Disclosure with relevant Barring Service checks and full referencing will be required before employment can commence.

About Us

Young Epilepsy is the only UK charity dedicated to creating better lives for children and young people with epilepsy and related conditions and is based on a beautiful campus in Lingfield, Surrey, providing world class services.

Your role

The SLT department sits within a wider therapies team which includes occupational therapy, physiotherapy and psychology. Working collaboratively with colleagues across our campus and different disciplines is essential. Our therapies team includes SLT assistants and an AAC technician.

Our students have a wide range of needs: epilepsy, complex developmental, acquired and neurodegenerative needs and / or autistic spectrum disorders, so you’ll enjoy a variety of challenges and rewards in assessing (formally and informally) their communication needs, providing differential diagnosis and designing appropriate interventions that facilitate their progress educationally and in everyday life. Our emphasis is on developing functional, transferable skills, enabling our students to fully participate in their own lives, with individual or group therapy as required. You’ll be able to offer training to staff to support the therapy you design.

The variety of ways in which we work as Speech and Language Therapists on site means you will have to be flexible, as you’ll be working collaboratively with residential and education staff to ensure that each student’s communication needs are met.

What we need from you

A registered member of the HCPC with a certificate to practice.
A member of RCSLT.
A willingness to make a difference to communication for the students on your caseload.
Experience in paediatrics, learning disabilities and / or acquired disorders.
Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong team ethic.
Good organisational and time management skills.
Good clinical knowledge at a specialist level or a willingness to develop a specialism.

Benefits

Opportunities for career progression
Occupational pension scheme.
On-site accommodation available
Subsidised dining room.
Gym membership options (on and off-site).
Your Rewards, giving you access to nationwide discounts and benefits.
Free parking on campus.
Comprehensive training.

We are accessible by bus, by train via the East Grinstead branch of the Oxted Line and by car and offer free parking on our campus.

For further details of these and other vacancies, please visit our website: youngepilepsy.org.uk/jobs

No agencies please.

Young Epilepsy reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy early.

Depending on the amount of interest our vacancies receive it is not always possible to respond to everyone who applies. Whereever possible, we will do our utmost to respond to as many people as we can.

Young Epilepsy strives to employ people that reflect the community it serves; therefore, applications from minority groups and people with disabilities are particularly welcomed.

Young Epilepsy is the operating name of the National Centre for Young People with Epilepsy. Registered Charity No: 311877 (England and Wales).

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