Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7 equivalent; pro-rata dependent upon qualifications and experience.
Hours: flexible up to 37.5 per week; academic term time plus 5 college training days and 3 planning and preparation days.
Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist who would like to work term time only? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you for to join our College’s Multi-Disciplinary Therapy Team providing clinical expertise and delivery. You will work autonomously but you will also benefit from being part of our existing MDT integrated therapy service and cross site collaboration with therapy teams in other Livability settings.
We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic and adaptable person who enjoys working as part of a multidisciplinary team to join our Therapy team.
Nash College, part of the Livability Charity, is a thriving successful College. Providing specialist day and residential education for 80 students, aged 19 to 25 with a range of complex learning needs and physical disabilities. Working at Nash offers you excellent career prospects and training opportunities. We also offer excellent holidays, as well as a pension plan.
Specialist skills in communication and AAC are essential as well as experience of working in with young people with learning disability and complex needs. You will need to be confident working autonomously to manage your own clinical caseload, be able to lead and direct a SALT assistant and will work collaboratively with other members of the educational multidisciplinary team. You will be HPC registered and responsible for maintaining your own registration.
This is an interesting and varied role holding a mixed caseload of students from ages 16 -25 ranging in needs from those with severe and profound learning disabilities to those Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
Applicants for the above post should be well qualified with appropriate experience, imaginative and dynamic and should be committed to the principles of inclusive education.
Livability positively welcomes applications from all sections of the community in which we work and for the right candidate overseas sponsorships may be possible
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its students, and it is the responsibility of all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check.