Senior Speech and Language Therapist

  • Xander Group
  • Thatcham, Berkshire
  • Oct 16, 2025
Full time Healthcare & Medical

Job Description

  • Senior Speech and Language Therapist
  • 46,000 - 53,000 salary
  • Thatcham, West Berkshire
  • Working with Autistic Young People, Complex Needs
  • 37.5 hours Permanent Position, Flexible hours
  • Will consider part time hours

I'm currently supporting a charity based in Berkshire providing education and residential care for autistic young people with complex needs who are looking for a Experienced Senior Speech and Language Therapist to join the team.

The school provides exceptional therapeutic support and pastoral care, creating a profoundly positive impact on every pupil. Classrooms are calm, focused, and highly conducive to learning, with minimal disruptions thanks to dedicated staff and specialist therapeutic and nursing teams who ensure an optimal sensory, physical, and communication environment.

You will:

  • To line manage the team of Speech and Language Therapists
  • Contribute and/or lead in the planning and delivering of training to develop the knowledge and skills of others in the areas of autism and communication.
  • Manage a caseload of autistic young people with complex needs
  • Deliver assessments, therapy input, and regular reviews
  • Implement the Prior's Court Communication Skills Programme to build functional communication
  • Use clinical reasoning to identify individual communication strengths and needs
  • Provide evidence-based interventions in expression, understanding, social communication, and AAC
  • Contribute to EHCP reviews through reports and progress updates

What you get:

  • 33 days annual leave, including Bank Holidays.
  • Company pension (Combined 8% contributions - Employer 5%, Employee 3%)
  • Employee Recognition Schemes, including an annual staff awards programme and Long Service Awards
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to full Flexible Benefits package including the option of dental insurance, private medical insurance, critical illness, increased life insurance, partner life insurance self-funded health cash plan and many others

To apply, call Haaris on O(phone number removed)O3