Speech & Language Therapist

Olive Branch Recruitment are working with an Education and Children’s Services leading organisation offering independent behavioural care for commissioners across the UK. With over 100 high quality schools, colleges and homes they focus on making a real and lasting difference to everyone they support.

Our client is recruiting an HCPC Registered Speech & Language Therapist for a school based in South West London working with young people aged 9 -19 with mild to moderate autistic spectrum disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome and associated learning difficulties.

Benefits include:

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Blue Light discount card
• Comprehensive induction
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Pension scheme
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

Our client is immensely proud of the career pathway and training they can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience, they will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

Main duties:

• Undertaking initial assessments of new and present students to establish the scope, level and nature of the individual students SaLT needs.
• Leads and facilitates group and/or individual sessions, ensuring activities and interventions continue to meet the needs of the students, and are consistent with the provisions detailed in the students EHCP.
• Manages, monitors and reviews an assigned caseload, ensuring delivery within the agreed timescales. Know and take responsibility for the EHCP provision for SaLT in all of the caseload.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date records, case file notes and computerised information, and other associated documentation; providing and presenting progress reports on a regular basis.
• Liaise with professional and teaching colleagues, to support needs of individuals. Also, assist with the analysis and reporting of statistical data and information for research and audit purposes.
• Manages own work load independently.