Beaumont College supports special school leavers including those with complex autism and social and emotional challenges. 

 

Some of our students have excellent language skills, while others may communicate in different ways. All have learning difficulties. For individuals in this group of students, they may have developed strategies for communication over their lives that aren’t as helpful or easy to understand as they reach adulthood. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our ethos and culture is to support our young people to develop strategies focusing on positive behaviours, reducing and ideally removing the need for our young people to deploy unhelpful strategies to communicate their needs, be heard, listened to and understood. 

 

You will work with identified students as part of a small team around the student, enabling and empowering them to prepare for fulfilling busy lives as young adults. Along the way, there will be fun, memories to make and a significant journey of ups and downs. As they graduate our young people demonstrate the progress they have made through their actions. And they have achieved this because they have been empowered by the staff who support them. Are you the next member of our amazing team?

Beaumont College, Lancaster is a very special place, and we are seeking to extend our work-family in response to increased demand for places at the college. If you have as passion to support some of the most vulnerable special school leavers to fulfil their potential, through support for the planned, high-quality deliver of learning, this role is for you.

Our students love to learn, and we love to see them make the progress that they are capable of, which not everyone thought was possible. You will have an empathy and understanding for our students, alongside a supportive and ambitious vision for them to each achieve their potential, then Beaumont College.

You will benefit from small class sizes as a dedicated Learning Support Worker, and high ratios of student support workers. This is intended to underpin highly personalised learning opportunities and interactions. You will also work alongside the expertise of a multi-disciplinary team including positive behaviour practitioners, nurses, assistive technologists, occupational and physiotherapists where relevant to the learner.

Our teaching roles are term time only, and you will work within a multidisciplinary team.

This position is for 7.5 hours, working on Fridays only within the college. 

Beaumont College supports special school leavers including those with complex autism and social and emotional challenges. 

 
Some of our students have excellent language skills, while others may communicate in different ways. All have learning difficulties. For individuals in this group of students, they may have developed strategies for communication over their lives that aren’t as helpful or easy to understand as they reach adulthood. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our ethos and culture is to support our young people to develop strategies focusing on positive behaviours, reducing and ideally removing the need for our young people to deploy unhelpful strategies to communicate their needs, be heard, listened to and understood. 
 
You will work with identified students as part of a small team around the student, enabling and empowering them to prepare for fulfilling busy lives as young adults. Along the way, there will be fun, memories to make and a significant journey of ups and downs. As they graduate our young people demonstrate the progress they have made through their actions. And they have achieved this because they have been empowered by the staff who support them. Are you the next member of our amazing team?

Ideal candidates will have a passion for working in Social Care, offering compassionate and person-centred care to individuals

Beaumont College supports special school leavers including those with complex autism and social and emotional challenges. 

 
Some of our students have excellent language skills, while others may communicate in different ways. All have learning difficulties. For individuals in this group of students, they may have developed strategies for communication over their lives that aren’t as helpful or easy to understand as they reach adulthood. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our ethos and culture is to support our young people to develop strategies focusing on positive behaviours, reducing and ideally removing the need for our young people to deploy unhelpful strategies to communicate their needs, be heard, listened to and understood. 
 
You will work with identified students as part of a small team around the student, enabling and empowering them to prepare for fulfilling busy lives as young adults. Along the way, there will be fun, memories to make and a significant journey of ups and downs. As they graduate our young people demonstrate the progress they have made through their actions. And they have achieved this because they have been empowered by the staff who support them. Are you the next member of our amazing team?

This role is for 7.5 hours per week, working Fridays only in the college. 

Beaumont College supports special school leavers including those with complex autism and social and emotional challenges. 

 
Some of our students have excellent language skills, while others may communicate in different ways. All have learning difficulties. For individuals in this group of students, they may have developed strategies for communication over their lives that aren’t as helpful or easy to understand as they reach adulthood. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our ethos and culture is to support our young people to develop strategies focusing on positive behaviours, reducing and ideally removing the need for our young people to deploy unhelpful strategies to communicate their needs, be heard, listened to and understood. 
 
You will work with identified students as part of a small team around the student, enabling and empowering them to prepare for fulfilling busy lives as young adults. Along the way, there will be fun, memories to make and a significant journey of ups and downs. As they graduate our young people demonstrate the progress they have made through their actions. And they have achieved this because they have been empowered by the staff who support them. Are you the next member of our amazing team?

Are you an energetic and creative Speech and Language Therapist who is keen to work in a supportive multi-disciplinary setting? Are you looking to make a difference to the lives of young people with complex needs and/or autism?  Then come and join us in Beaumont College.

Beaumont College is a well-respected specialist college that offers individualised educational programmes for young people aged 16 – 25 with a broad range of learning needs.  The college is based in Lancaster and supports day colleges in Blackpool, Ulverston and Carlisle.  The Communication Department works closely with the other therapists in college, and supports the Education Team, the Positive Behaviour Support Team and the Student Support Team to ensure that students can access the curriculum and develop their communication skills.  The college is a Total Communication Environment and staff are supported to implement a range of approaches including Intensive Interaction, AAC and Makaton.

We welcome applications from therapists who are looking to join an established service and develop their specialism.  There will be opportunities to develop your professional therapy skills and knowledge.  The role is primarily communication based although there may be opportunities to develop your skills in dysphagia within the field of adult learning disabilities.  Dysphagia experience is therefore not essential.  The ideal candidate will have some experience of supporting people with complex physical, learning and sensory needs, and have an interest in autism, social and emotional learning needs, AAC and/or developing early communication skills.

Beaumont College supports special school leavers including those with complex autism and social and emotional challenges. 

 
Some of our students have excellent language skills, while others may communicate in different ways. All have learning difficulties. For individuals in this group of students, they may have developed strategies for communication over their lives that aren’t as helpful or easy to understand as they reach adulthood. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, our ethos and culture is to support our young people to develop strategies focusing on positive behaviours, reducing and ideally removing the need for our young people to deploy unhelpful strategies to communicate their needs, be heard, listened to and understood. 
 
You will work with identified students as part of a small team around the student, enabling and empowering them to prepare for fulfilling busy lives as young adults. Along the way, there will be fun, memories to make and a significant journey of ups and downs. As they graduate our young people demonstrate the progress they have made through their actions. And they have achieved this because they have been empowered by the staff who support them. Are you the next member of our amazing team?

Job Title: Speech and Language Therapist

Reporting To: Head of Care

Location: Beaumont College, Sussex

• To manage a caseload of students with complex learning, physical, emotional and sensory needs and/or behaviours of distress, including students with Autistic Spectrum Conditions.
• To contribute to the integration of appropriate communication strategies within all curriculum pathways and within the residential provision to students.

• Day to day management of a caseload of students with complex communication needs in order to support their access to the curriculum.This would include assessment, delivery of therapy, provision of recommendations, monitoring and reporting against progress.
• Contribute to the College intake assessment and transition processes, to ensure effective communication support for students at all stages of their placement.
• Contribute to the delivery of generic and student-specific communication training.
• Influence a ‘Best Practice’ culture relating to communication by participating in the process of collaborative differentiation of the curriculum and evaluating the communication environment to identify training needs.
• Adhere to Professional Standards and Continuing Professional Development requirements including maintaining records in accordance with professional guidelines, maintaining CPD, participation in supervision and appraisal, attendance at regular team and Community of Practice meetings.

   

   

   

   

   

• To work seamlessly across department or team boundaries in a collaborative and constructive manner to implement the organisation’s strategic direction.
• To demonstrate a commitment to customer service excellence and deliver against the requirements of the quality framework.
• To work within the organisation’s policies and procedures.
• To undertake such other duties as may be reasonably determined by the Principal

This job description should not be seen as all encompassing, and the post holder will be expected to undertake any other responsibilities appropriate to the post as identified by the organisation.

-We are Supportive by promoting opportunities for everyone so they can reach their full potential

-We are very Ambitious to provide the best possible outcomes for the people who use our services

-We are Loyal because we put the people that we support and our staff at the centre of everything we do, and we deliver on our promises. We also are committed to ensuring that our services are meeting the needs of all stakeholders

-We are Unique because we are ambitious and innovative about the diversity of the services that we provide without compromising quality

-We are Transparent by being open, honest and fostering a culture of mutual respect. We promote a culture where we learn by our experiences, and we are committed to doing things better and setting the highest standards in what we do

-We are Engaging because we work in partnership with the people that we support, our staff and all our stakeholders

-We encourage everyone to experience a Meaningful life by being aspirational and by offering opportunities

Beaumont College is a very special place. We provide highly personalised pathways for special school leavers, and we support them in the journey to become adults, and to live independent and fulfilling lives as far as possible.

Each student spends 2-3 years following an intensive multi-disciplinary team study programme that supports them as school leavers into busy, productive and fulfilling lives as adults.