Band 7 - Speech & Language Therapist - Windsor - Permanent

Job Title: Speech & Language Therapist – Windsor
Banding: Band 7
Location: Windsor, Berkshire
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £41,983 – £49,717 per annum (includes paid school holidays) + excellent benefits
Working Hours: Full-time

We are currently recruiting on behalf of our client for a passionate and experienced Speech & Language Therapist to join their team at Queensmead House School in Windsor. This is a unique opportunity to work in a beautiful, historic setting with views of Windsor Castle, within a school recently rated Good by Ofsted. 

Our client’s clinicians are driven by the belief that even the smallest positive change in a young person’s life is worth celebrating. Their work is deeply rewarding, and they take pride in creating environments where young people can thrive. Check out this video on what life as a Speech and Language Therapist at Witherslack Group is like!

Key Responsibilities

Queensmead House School (QHS) is an independent specialist day school offering both primary and secondary education. Located on a historic site with a rich educational heritage, the school provides a high-quality learning environment for pupils with complex educational needs, communication difficulties, and challenging behaviours.

The school is part of a wider network of specialist schools and children’s homes where clinicians are integral to one of the most joined-up models in SEND. The young people supported by the client often present with a complexity of need, including developmental trauma, neurodevelopmental conditions, and special educational needs.

As a key member of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, you will play a vital role in supporting both educational and residential colleagues in creating therapeutic living and learning environments. Your responsibilities will include conducting clinical assessments and developing personalised care plans tailored to each young person’s needs. You will deliver individualised therapeutic interventions and assess mental health needs, recommending appropriate strategies and support through carefully considered care planning. Building strong rapport with the young people is essential, as it enables you to provide effective counselling and meaningful feedback on their progress.

What’s in it for You:

For your hard work and commitment, they reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With them, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:

• Training: A full induction and on the job training


• Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with full school holidays including bank holidays


• Clinical Development: If career growth and professional advancement is your thing, they provide a leading programme of clinical learning and development


• Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out their benefits here 


• Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance


• Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
  


• Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities – check out their schools here


• A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £1,000 bonus every time

Bring your whole self to work

This is a great opportunity to change young lives and have a positive impact on their future. Embedded within their living and learning environments you will be offered the support, resource and platform for you to do great things. You’ll benefit from supervision, a clinical development programme and access to a 220+ strong team of multi-disciplinary clinical colleagues who will be with you every step of the way. Here’s a few things they’ll need from you:

• Be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist registered with the HCPC


• Be a specialist with proven skills and experience to engage and deliver therapeutic interventions with children and young people with complex needs


• Need experience of supporting teams around a child or young person to ensure they are being provided with clinically informed living and learning environments and experiences


• Be a confident, engaging and effective, model, guide, leader and trainer.


• Be highly organised and ready to take the initiative


• Be committed to ensuring the best outcomes for young people

Why work with Pulse?

From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out.Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many clients, you’ll have access to exclusive opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else.We always prioritise your best interests, engaging in meaningful conversations and truly listening to you. You are an individual, a professional—not just a resource.

How to Apply

If you are interested in registering with us, would like to know more about this position, or simply wish to discuss other opportunities we have available, we would love to hear from you. Please apply using the link below.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents of countries listed on the Red or Amber list of the Code of Practice for the International Recruitment of Health and Social Care Personnel in England, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.