Job summary
We are excited to be offering opportunities for Highly Experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join our leadership team here at Surrey County Council. These position are based within the team who work in mainstream and specialist schools across our four quadrants (NW, SW, NE & SE) and with severe to profoundly deaf preschool children and their families.
Main duties of the job
As a Highly Specialist SLT / Clinical Team Lead you will hold your own specialist clinical caseload in an area of your expertise, you will also provide support for others working within that specialism deafness, secondary, post 16, Specialist Schools for children with additional needs. You will have a management role in one of the Quadrant teams which includes working alongside the other Team Leads to support and develop an enthusiastic and friendly teamwho work in mainstream and specialist schools across the quadrant and with severe to profoundly deaf preschool children and their families. Through a joint up approach with colleagues across Surrey, you will ensure the wider team is informed of current research and evidence base, and that clinical practice is of high quality. In your role you will provide clinical supervision and line management to members of the SLT Team and support with second opinions, observation, training and shadowing opportunities for colleagues. You will workwith management on the operational and strategic development of services to our schools across Surrey. You will also provide advice at educational panels.
About us
The School-Aged Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service is part of Surrey's local offer to support the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities of children and young people within mainstream schools and specialist provision. The Service is part of the Inclusion and Additional Needs Team in Surrey's Children, Families and Lifelong Learning directorate, working collaboratively with other teams such as Educational Psychology, Specialist Teachers, REMA and Behaviour Support. We are a large team (over 150) working across the four geographical quadrants of Surrey, each managed by a Quadrant Lead. The teams in each quadrant are made up of Therapists and Assistants. There are a team of Highly Specialist / Clinical Team Leads in each geographical area who work together to support the team and support service development. We are committed to offering student placements across our range of provisions. Our aim is for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs to receive the right support at the right time. We do this through our universal offer of advice, signposting and training, a targeted offer of modelling and coaching and specialist assessment and intervention for those needing this level of support. We aim to equip families and professionals with the skills and resources to work together to help and support children with SLCN. We work with children and young people with EHCPs and those at SEN support.
Job description
Job responsibilities
These positions have a starting salary of £48,105 per annum pro-rata to £51,923 (inclusive of market supplement) (NHS Band 7 equivalent) for working 36 hours per week across 42 weeks of the year. We will also consider applicants who would like to work a hour week for 42 weeks a year. These position are based within the team who work in mainstream and specialist schools across our four quadrants, and with severe to profoundly deaf preschool children and their families. Our four quadrants are:
1. North West (covering Woking, Runnymede and Surrey Heath)
2. South West (covering Guildford and Waverley)
3. North East (covering Epsom & Ewell, Spelthorne and Elmbridge)
4. South East (covering Reigate & Banstead, Mole Valley and Tandridge)
Rewards and Benefits
5. This is 42 week post with 10 weeks non term time, there are 15 additional days during schools holidays for CPD, supervision and project working
6. An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing
7. Paid fees for RCSLT membership and HCPC
8. Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
9. Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
10. A generous local government salary related pension
11. Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
12. 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
13. Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
14. A team of students, therapists and assistants led by a Therapies Manager who is an SLT
15. 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, termly study days, encouragement to join and attend CEN's relating to practice
The Opportunities
16. Post 1: Experienced SLT in the field of deafness to become one of two Team Leads for our specialist deaf team in the North East of Surrey
17. Post 2: Experienced SLT with a passion for working with children and young people in secondary and post-16 settings to lead new pathways for supporting CYP within this age group in the South West of Surrey
18. Post 3: Experienced SLT to lead the teams working in our Specialist Schools for Children with additional needs in the North West of Surrey
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment. The job advert closes at 23:59 on with interviews to follow. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit. An enhanced DBS '