BAND 5/6 Speech and Language Therapist(ASP or, Sept 2024 start)
The School:
The ‘Outstanding’ school is a specialist therapy school that caters for pupils who have suffered adverse childhood experiences. The pupils who attend the school are aged between 5-16 years of age who benefit from a therapeutic curriculum, that is focused on meeting the pupil’s social, emotional mental health needs(SEMH). The school is local to Nine Elms train station and boast excellent transport links.
Responsibilities:
* To plan, resource & prepare effective and engaging therapy programmes for children.
* To build positive working relationships with colleagues, pupils and children’s families.
* To ensure children responsible for are always supervised and safe.
* To ensure that therapy is facilitated ethically, safely and with consent from all parents/carers/children.
* To conduct a range of formal and informal assessments in order to suit a range of purposes.
* To continue to obtain key information on children allocated to the specific therapy, to keep up to date with any changes in the child’s life and to inform the rest of the therapy/teaching team.
* To adopt a capacity building approach whereby the aim of intervention is to equip staff with the skills to effectively facilitate the development of pupils’ communication skills
* To assist in determining the communicative function of a behaviour and to develop/target goals that will redu...