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Job overview

Interviews are due to be held on 28th July 2025.

This permanent band 6 post is an ideal opportunity to progress your clinical skills and professional career within a supportive and dynamic integrated therapy team in our Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) division. The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday) and is a permanent post based in Reading but working in Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire.

The successful applicant will deliver a speech and language therapy service in special schools and resource bases across Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire.

Our CYPIT service supports children and young people from birth to 19 years of age across Berkshire. We are an integrated therapy service, offering easy access to services and web-based advice via an on-line resource. We are establishing integrated approaches to the care that we offer families and the successful candidate would be able to take an active part in ongoing service developments.

Our teams are enthusiastic, flexible and forward-thinking, embracing the use of social media to engage with our service users and exploring digital solutions to make us more accessible to children and their families.

Main duties of the job

• We currently have an opportunity for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our team in a full-time band 6 post within our School Years team. This permanent post will involve working within established multi-disciplinary teams within special schools and resource bases in Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire. We welcome applications from Speech and Language Therapists with experience of working with children with complex needs or in special schools and who have experience of working in mainstream schools and an understanding of SEND processes. Working knowledge of the assessment process for EHCPs would be extremely helpful but is not essential. We are seeking staff, who are passionate about working with children and young people and keen to further develop their clinical and leadership skills.
• In this role as a Band 6 Children’s Speech and Language Therapist, you will be responsible for the planning and management of your own caseload and interventions, working collaboratively with education staff to meet the needs of children who access the special schools and resource bases.
• This role will also involve the delivery of training to education staff or parents.
• In this band 6 role, you will actively participate in clinical supervision and the appraisal process as well as providing support to less experienced and more junior staff, including caseload management and clinical decision-making.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

1.    Qualified Speech and Language Therapist, registered with HCPC 2.    More than 2 years post qualification experience 3.    Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Caroline Pethick on 07795617511 or email: [email protected] who will be delighted to help.

Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.