Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
Aurora Cedars School, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 9DW12 days remaining to apply
Job start date
30 September 2025
Closing date
31 October 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
30 September 2025
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £15.53 to £18.62 p/hr
Qualified Speech and Language Therapist job summary
🌟 Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
Aurora Cedars School – Wolverhampton
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract Type: Permanent, Part-Time (3 days/week)
Hours: 24 hours per week, Term Time Only
Salary: £15.53–£18.62 per hour (£32,302.40–£38,729.60 pro rata)
🏫 About Aurora Cedars School
Aurora Cedars School offers a tailored education for up to 80 pupils aged 5–19 with ASC and SEMH needs. Many of our students benefit from specialist support with speech, language, and communication—and that’s where you come in.
👩⚕️ The Role
We’re seeking a passionate and qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated therapy team. You’ll play a key role in creating a communication-friendly environment and helping us realise our vision: To build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people to thrive and find their place in the world.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Delivering bespoke assessments and intervention plans in collaboration with teaching staff
- Managing a small caseload of pupils with speech and language needs
- Supporting staff through training, consultation, and reflective practice
- Working closely with our experienced Clinical Lead and SENCo
🌱 What We’re Looking For
This role is ideal for someone with a nurturing approach, strong decision-making skills, and the ability to manage their own workload. If you’re enthusiastic about making a real difference and committed to excellence in care, we’d love to hear from you.
✅Essential Criteria:
- You will be a registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
- Hold a professional Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent.
- Completed SALT NPQ Status
💡 About Aurora
The Aurora Group is a forward-thinking provider of education and care for children, young people, and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. This is an exciting time to join us—Aurora Cedars is a growing school where your expertise can truly shape its future.
What’s on offer?
- Training and Development
Within Aurora, we strongly believe that learning and development should not be limited to just the children and young people we support. We offer wide range of programmes and opportunities to all our employees to improve your skills and further your career.
- Save money on your bills!!
With the cost of living rising we have a fantastic benefit through Perkbox to help with cutting costs and help make your money go further. Perkbox is a free app for you to use on the go wherever you are. You can get deals and discounts to save money on things like your weekly food bill, phone plans, internet, eating out, gym memberships, insurance and more. You can also use Perkbox for our cycle to work scheme and car scheme.
- Competitive Pay and Reward
Every year we compare the market rates of pay and rewards to insure they are comparable or better to other similar organisations. We also offer Enhanced Annual Leave, Company Sick Pay, Pension and Life Assurance.
- UK Health Cash Plan
This plan can help cover your day to day healthcare expenditure such as optician and dental bills. You and your children are covered on this plan and you can also choose to upgrade and add a partner to enjoy the benefits with you.
- Employee Assistance Programme
Your health and wellbeing is very important to us and we have support available on a wide variety of issues, helping you with online tools, information and via a freephone counselling service available 24/7.
- Refer a friend for £1,000
We’ll reward you for recommending friends and family to come and join the company (*terms apply)
How to apply?
Please complete an online application form in full, remembering to include all employment and education details.
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer.
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Aurora Cedars School
- School type
- Special school, ages 5 to 19
- School size
- 55 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 5 to 19
- Ofsted report
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School location
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