Job Description

Reference number

BUC13566

Contract type

Permanent

Working hours

Full time/Part time

Level of DBS check required

Enhanced

Date posted

15 May 2025, 11 p.m.

Application deadline

9 Jun 2025

Contact email

ajoseph@chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk



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Overview

Term time only

+ INSET days (39 weeks per year)

Salary Type:

Bucks pay

Salary details:

NHS Band 5 - 7 DOE (equivalent to Bucks Pay FTE - 36,495 -51,081)

Contract type:

Permanent

Hours:

37

Closing date:

09/06/2025 09:00

Interviews to be held:

13/06/2025


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About us

Chiltern Wood school is a multi-site SEN school based over 3 locations within the High Wycombe area. We cater for a wide range of students, aged 3-19 with complex special educational needs.



As a school, Chiltern Wood use the SCERTS framework. A Total Communication Approach is incorporated into classroom practice, and a variety of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) are used extensively across the school.

Website:

https://www.chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk/
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About the role

We employ our own well established, friendly and supportive Speech and Language Therapy Team consisting of 3/4 therapists. Therapists enjoy parity with their teacher colleagues in working term time only with paid school holidays. We are currently seeking to fill a range of roles full or part time working term time plus Inset days. These posts will include covering communication needs within the school, and we would particularly welcome anyone with dysphagia training and experience as this is invaluable within our setting.


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About you

The ideal candidate will complement our existing team skill set, and we would therefore invite applications, Band 6, or Band 7 level, or experienced Band 5 dependent on therapist knowledge, skills, and experience. We would consider part-time working for the right candidate.




The role will include significant opportunities for meaningful direct work with pupils. Within the role, there will be opportunities to work collaboratively with teaching staff in classroom settings to integrate speech and language therapy recommendations (both communications, and eating and drinking) into daily classroom practice; and opportunities to deliver training for staff and parents on a range of topics.



Continuing Professional Development is actively encouraged, and as a school we have a proactive attitude to training and development opportunities. Regular clinical team supervision is in place for the SaLT team, and there is a commitment to evidence-based practice.



The Speech and Language Therapy Department is well resourced with it's own budget for training/CPD, and for equipment and resources. The use of electronic and paper-based AAC is established within the school. Therapists are provided with their own laptops . There are many opportunities to work together with the large multi-disciplinary team, which includes Occupational Therapists, School Nurses, Music Therapy, and Physiotherapy.




Please refer to the s for further information relating to specifics for the role




All applicants must be registered members of both RCSLT and HCPC.


The successful candidate will be independently responsible for a caseload of pupils with complex needs.



We would welcome candidates with a particular interest in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC); Complex Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC); and/or Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD).




Therapists applying must have evidence of specialist knowledge, skills, and experience in relevant clinical areas.



Candidates need excellent communication and interaction skills, a high level of empathy, and a passion for providing speech and language therapy for children and young people with complex needs.



If all of the aforementioned is of interest to you, we would welcome your application.


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Other information

Please click on the link below to apply for this role and to view the full job description:

https://mynewterm.com/jobs/110578/EDV-2025-CWS-95725

Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below.

Telephone:

01494 532621

Email:

ajoseph@chilternwood.bucks.sch.uk

Chiltern Wood School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to full vetting checks, including a disclosure of criminal records at an enhanced level, online searches and satisfactory references.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:

All unspent convictions and conditional cautions*

All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).*

For further information on filtering please refer to

Nacro guidance

and the

guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice

(see, in particular, the section titled 'Exceptions Order').

It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.