Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Sherwood Foundation
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Cognus Limited is a Local Authority Traded Company, which is commissioned by the London Borough of Sutton to provide education services to early years providers, mainstream schools and specialist education settings in Sutton. Wholly owned by the local authority, we deliver a wide range of high-quality services to deliver excellent practice that improve the lives of children, young people, and families in Sutton and beyond.
We are currently recruiting speech and language therapists to support the delivery of statutory speech and language therapy provision at Sherwood Foundation School, as part of our Transdisciplinary Team, working with dedicated teaching staff, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and wellbeing practitioners, helping children aged 4-19 years with complex needs.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team providing innovative therapy interventions following evidence-based practise and an embedded model of therapy in order to best support the pupils needs.
Sherwood Foundation consists of 3 campuses in Sutton providing education for children and young people with complex physical and severe learning disabilities, autistic pupils and moderate learning difficulties.
Cognus Therapies provides a robust supervision framework with all posts receiving Managerial and Clinical Supervision. Regular time is allocated for Continuing Professional Development.
Job description
Job Summary
Working within a multidisciplinary Cognus team of speech therapists and occupational therapists, the post holder will have the opportunity to work in local schools and colleges across the 4 years to 25 years age range or with a smaller age range within this.
Advising and supporting Sherwood Foundation School with children and young people with Speech, Language & Communication Needs including a possible cohort of autistic individuals, complex physical disabilities and SLCN to independently manage their caseload to ensure that intended outcomes are delivered within agreed service standards.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience as a paediatric Speech and Language Therapist
- Experience with low and high tech AAC assessment and intervention
Desirable
- Understanding and experience of play based approaches
- A passion for neuro-affirming approaches
- Understanding and experience working with students who present as gestalt language processers
- Growth mindset
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy.
About the employer
Cognus Limited is a Local Authority Traded Company, which is commissioned by the London Borough of Sutton to provide education services to early years providers, mainstream schools and specialist education settings in Sutton. Wholly owned by the local authority, we deliver a wide range of high-quality services to deliver excellent practice that improve the lives of children, young people, and families in Sutton and beyond.
Sherwood Foundation School prides itself on its individualised, trans-disciplinary approach to learning; with the child/ young person and their family at the heart of our practice. We are dedicated to using strengths based, relationship and play focused, person-centred practices to support the learning and growth of our pupils. We aim to create a school culture and learning environment that facilitates the active engagement and participation of our learners, using motivating and meaningful activities that support the development of regulation, communication, social skills, cognitive abilities and life skills in preparation for adulthood.
We offer
A friendly, supportive and collaborative working environment
The opportunity to deliver a wide range of evidence-based interventions with your caseload and develop highly specialist assessment and intervention skills
Onsite support from an enthusiastic and dedicated team of experienced staff
Regular supervision, continued professional development and training