Speech and Language Therapist
40 hours, 52 weeks
Salary: £44,567 - £50,778
*Inclusive of £2,000 market supplement
(To be appointed on the higher-grade salary, additional experiences are required: experience in delivering training to a wide range of staff, able to provide SALT professional supervision to other SALT within local provisions and experience working with children/adolescents with SEND)
Sunfield Garden School and Children’s Home sustains a distinguished historical legacy in the beautiful Clent Hills, West Midlands. Sunfield’s farm, walled garden and woodlands provide excellent opportunities for outdoor learning and practical activities. Sunfield is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.
Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.
The purpose of the role is to work therapeutically with specific or small groups of students based on assessments of the students support and developmental needs. As a Speech and Language Therapist with the Trust, you would have the opportunity to:
- Work collaboratively with the school to promote, and further embed, the Total Communication initiative, supporting our students in accessing a range of communication methods. To include high and low tech AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication).
- Embrace the opportunity to work flexibly and creatively with our students at a universal, targeted and specialist level
- Providing a holistic approach to the management of your own caseload, ensuring coverage of EHCP targets and student need, nurturing solid working relationships with staff and students.
- Work with students across a variety of settings, including classroom settings and within the grounds of Sunfield
- Understand how your support may be further embedded within community and residential settings and be empowered to think innovatively on how this can be delivered as part of the Student care plan
- Deliver appropriate interventions, including informal and formal assessment through observation and staff/parent/carer liaison.
- Deliver weekly direct (1:1), small group and class-based interventions, including therapy in the craft and outdoor space
- Support and encourage the use of Zones of Regulation across our educational setting
- The opportunity to facilitate meaningful change with hands-on intervention and practice.
- Protected time for reflection and MDT liaison with the therapies team, staff and wider trust as well the opportunities to upskill staff to embed practices across the curriculum.
Our staff pride ourselves on putting the needs of our students at the forefront of all we do and maintain a strong safeguarding culture. We are looking for a Speech and Language Therapist who will embrace, articulate and work with the Trust’s ethos, visions and Values, which are implemented and integrated within the therapeutic provision, encouraging our students to reimagine their own potential.
To undertake this position successfully you will have:
- Membership of the Health Professional Council and be a Fully Certified member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- BA or BSc in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
- Experience of working with autism, learners with learning difficulties and/ or learning disabilities and social-emotional behaviour.
The successful applicant will take part in an interactive induction to experience the crafts within the curriculum and experience the student journey. You would also be provided with financial support toward the cost of clinical supervisions.
Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.
In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and also opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.
Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers
INDHP
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £44,567.00-£50,778.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- Are you a driver with your own vehicle?
Licence/Certification:
- HCPC (required)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 08/09/2025
Reference ID: INDHP