Job Title: Speech and Language Therapist
Job Location: Oakwood College, Torpoint (PL11)
Salary: The salary ranges from £20,727.00 - £25,237.80 based 30 hours per week (across 4 days), 42 weeks per year.
This is equivalent to a full‑time salary of £32,077.50 to £39,058.50 based on 37.5 hours over 52 weeks
Contract Type: Permanent
Imagine starting your day at Oakwood College, a welcoming and nurturing environment where every interaction has the potential to make a meaningful difference. This 4-day-per-week, term-time only role offers a fantastic opportunity to build a rewarding career while maintaining a healthy work-life balance, giving you more time to focus on family, personal interests, wellbeing, and the things that matter most to you.
Whether you're looking for greater flexibility, school-friendly working patterns, or the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of school holidays, this role offers the rare chance to combine purposeful work with valuable time away from the workplace to rest, recharge, and thrive.
As part of our dedicated Integrated Therapy Team, you'll join a community of passionate and supportive Team Members who are committed to helping learners feel safe, understood, and empowered to achieve their potential. Working with learners with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs, you'll play an important role in providing therapeutic support that helps them build confidence, develop emotional resilience, and experience success both within the college environment and beyond.
No two days are the same. Each morning begins with a collaborative team briefing, providing an opportunity to share insights, celebrate progress, and reflect on the needs of the learners you support. Throughout the day, you may deliver individual therapy sessions, facilitate small-group interventions, or work alongside education Team Members to provide integrated therapeutic support within the classroom. Every interaction is an opportunity to foster trusting relationships, promote emotional wellbeing, and help learners feel valued, heard, and supported.
Collaboration sits at the heart of our therapeutic approach. Alongside your direct work with learners, you'll work closely with education Team Members, our onsite Creative Arts Therapist, families, and external professionals to create holistic support plans that enable every learner to flourish. You'll also benefit from protected time for clinical supervision, reflective practice, mentoring, and ongoing professional development, ensuring you feel supported in your own growth while helping learners achieve theirs.
A day in the life of a Speech and Language Therapist will involve:
- Taking a trauma informed approach to clinical work. You’ll work with a small caseload of learners who will have varying Learning, Communication, sensory processing, and social interaction needs. You’ll be able to do this through 1:1 support, classroom work and group sessions.
- Working with the wider team to offer the best support to our learners, including our onsite creative art therapists, teachers, and teaching assistants, and taking part in Multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Administration. Whilst doing all your great work with the learners, we’ll need you to keep their records up to date and carry out all the administrative tasks you’d expect to come with this role. Don’t worry though, during the school holidays you can work from home so that you have the space to do this without it impacting the time you spend with the learners.
To be a successful Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll need:
- A recognised Degree in Speech and Language Therapy, along with HCPC Registration and membership with the Royal College of Speech and Language.
- Good IT skills – We’ll train you on how to use our systems, but it would help if you had a working understanding of using Microsoft packages like Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams.
- A full driving licence. Whilst this role is based in a single location, there will be times that you need to attend meetings offsite which would require the use of a vehicle.
If you have experience working within the NHS, the best way for us to describe the level of experience needed for this role would be to consider it a “Band 5” position.
In return for your time, you’ll get:
- Holidays – You’ll get 28 days annual leave, including public holidays.
- Pension scheme– Our pension scheme is based on you paying in 5%, and us adding 3%.
- Learning & Development Opportunities – We provide comprehensive learning opportunities for team members to develop themselves.
- Discounts – You’ll have access to brilliant discounts through the Blue Light Card and our own employee benefits platform.
- Wellbeing Support – Your wellbeing is always our priority. You’ll have access to mental health and wellbeing support. On top of this, our therapies team offers a monthly confidential check in clinic, and group reflective practice sessions.
- Cycle2Work -The cycle to work scheme enables you to buy a bicycle at a discounted rate.
- DBS – As this role required you to have an enhanced DBS carried out, we will cover this cost.
- After 12 months service - You’ll also be eligible for our Medicash scheme which covers a wide range of medical, health and wellbeing expenses (Including immediate access to a GP!). You’ll get life assurance paid at x2 your annual salary.
Please note that as part of our safer recruitment processes, successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check, and online and social media checks, and reference validation.
At Phoenix Learning and Care, we pride ourselves on our diverse workforce and ensuring we have an inclusive environment for all our team members. We remain committed to ensuring our teams can bring their true selves to work without risk or fear of discrimination.