Job summary
This role has a competitive starting salary of £43,227 - £46,623 per annum for five days a week, across 42 weeks of the year. Are you an enthusiastic qualified Speech and Language Therapist with over two years experience who would like to develop your skills? We have a great opportunity to join our skilled, supportive, and solution-focused team!

Our Offer to You

• 42-week contract, working across term-time and an additional, flexible 15 days for CPD, project work and supervision activities as well as 10 weeks holiday in non-term time
• Comprehensive clinical supervision programme including a buddy, 1:1 meetings with line manager, extensive in house training programme and formal external training opportunities, access to clinical effectiveness groups, case study groups and enhanced probation support, termly whole-team study days, encouragement to join and attend CEN's relating to practice
• Opportunities to develop management skills. Training and support is provided
• Paid RCSLT membership and HCPC fees
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
• A generous local government salary related pension

Main duties of the job

• Clinical decision making in conjunction with school / college staff around the level of support needed to achieve the best possible outcome for the children and young people on your defined caseload
• Working with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants, setting targets for the children and young people they are supporting, and monitoring of the delivery and outcomes of their work
• Assessment, advice and intervention for children with a range of speech, language and communication needs within your caseload. For children and young people on your caseload who are considered to have complex needs and where a joint multidisciplinary approach is essential to achieving the best outcome for these children and young people, you will be supported by your clinical team leader
• Supporting junior members of the team, line managing others and taking on students
• Contributing to and delivering training for schools and others in the team

About us
The Speech and Language Therapy Service is part of Surrey County Council's local offer to support the special educational needs and disabilities of children and young people within mainstream schools and specialist provision. This Service is part of the Early Intervention, Prevention and Support Service in Surrey's Children, Families and Lifelong Learning Directorate, and works collaboratively with other teams such as Educational Psychology, Specialist Teachers and SEN teams. We aim to deliver the right support at the right time, through assessment and intervention; equipping families and professionals with the skills and resources to work together to support children with SLCN. We offer universal, targeted and specialist support for children, families, and the school workforce; working with children and young people with EHCPs and those at SEN support following Surrey's Graduated Response. We also have a specialist dysphagia service and specialist deaf service. The Surrey SLT service is a large team (nearly 200) of both qualified Therapists and non-qualified Therapy Assistants. We have excellent supervision and CPD models plus a rolling in-house training programme; we are committed to continuous learning and development. We champion our team and one of our Therapists was voted People's Choice in the Surrey Stars Awards, receiving over 500 votes showing just how well the service is regarded in the organisation!

Person Specification
Qualifications

• A degree in Speech and Language Therapy with a minimum of 2 years' experience working as an SLT with completed NQP competencies
• Registered with the HCPC and RCSLT, and eligible to work in the UK
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle

Experience

• Working knowledge of the English education system including the National Curriculum and SEND code of practice
• Experience of supporting and training others including newly qualified therapists, assistants, students and work experience placements
• Evidence of a range of evidence based interventions used to support children and young people

Job responsibilities
Please see above and below for complete information about this fantastic opportunity with Surrey County Council's Speech and Language Therapy service. An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role. This role is subject to an online / social media check as part of our safer recruitment processes, in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance.

To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 4 questions:
1. Are you registered with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
2. Do you have a minimum of two years' experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist with completed NQP competencies? Please answer 'yes' or 'no' as appropriate. If you answer 'no' please provide further details.
3. Do you have working knowledge of the English education system including the National Curriculum and SEND code of practice? Please tell us more about this including how have you have gained this knowledge.
4. Please briefly describe a speech and language strategy or approach that you have supported staff or children to successfully use in the classroom. How did you measure its success?

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.