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Speech and Language Therapist
Contract
Permanent
Hours
37 hrs per week, term time only or full time all year round (open to negotiation). Part time may be considered.
Employer
Co-op Academies Trust
Employer type
Public (Non NHS)
Town
The Wirral, Stoke and Manchester
Salary
拢51,802 to 拢56,670 + benefits
Closing
06/01/2025 23:59

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Speech and Language Therapist

Location: The Wirral, Stoke and Manchester
Salary: 拢51,802 to 拢56,670 + 产别苍别蹿颈迟蝉听
Contract: Permanent, 37 hrs per week, term time only or full time all year round (open to negotiation).
Part time may be considered.
Hours: (Mon to Fri 08:45 鈥 16:45)
Flexible working allowed- with some virtual working from home.
Start date: Open to negotiation

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with the enthusiasm and motivation to work with children with a wide range of communication needs, learning difficulties and/or disabilities, including autism?

This unique opportunity allows you to work alongside committed school staff in a range of schools across the Trust in the communities we serve.听 We aim to deliver an outstanding school experience to children with special educational needs and disabilitiesand their families. Many of our communities are the most deprived in the North of England.

The majority of your role will be focusing on pupils in our mainstream primary schools. Your core responsibility will be to develop our staff to improve experiences for children with a range of communication needs, as well as offering assessment and therapy sessions. This would mean working alongside Speech and Language Therapy provision already in place in schools eg. NHS and privately basedwhen required to ensure we maximise capacity that already happens in our schools. We want you to support the ongoing daily work, build capacity and expertise with your input to support SLCN within schools, including communication friendly environments as well as more specialist input in terms of assessment and intervention. This would involve working across 3 levels of input, incorporating Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels. . We want our provision for SEN pupils to improve across the Trust developing into outstanding experiences and our Speech and Language Therapists will help greatly with this key target. Professional supervision will be provided.

You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with the already established therapist based in West Yorkshire. You would be required to work across Stoke, Manchester and the Wirral with a range of pupils and staff and help to improve the practice of this key area across the Trust. You will be working with a dedicated team of SENDCO鈥檚 based in our schools and belong to a team of Directors of SEND who also work across the Trust. The network of SENDCOs which you would belong to is led by our SEND lead across the Trust, Jan Gough. Virtual work from home is also possible for online meetings with colleagues, report writing and developing programmes to allow for flexible working with the pattern to be determined in dialogue with your line manager. There will be travelling within your region between schools and hub offices.

Working for the Coop in all what we do is underpinned by being a morale and values based organisation. We strongly believe in networks of schools working collaboratively and cooperatively together to improve pupil daily experiences and making our schools great places to work for our staff. Join an organisation determined to make a difference but also doing it in the right way.

Essential Criteria

听听听听听听听 A qualified Speech and Language Therapist with a motivation for working with children with special educational needs and disabilities and their families.

听听听听听听听 Experience working with children with complex needs such as ADHD, ASC and Developmental Language Disorder

听听听听听听听 Training and experience working with children with challenging behaviours.

听听听听听听听 Good communication and interpersonal skills.

听听听听听听听 Knowledge and understanding of working within a culturally diverse community.

听听听听听听听 Ability to develop effective strategies to engage hard-to-reach families.

听听听听听听听 Experienced in delivering training to professionals.

听听听听听听听 Experience of liaising effectively with relevant agencies, including health professionals.

听听听听听听听 Experience of monitoring and evaluating for improvement.

听听听听听听听 Current member of the HCPC and eligible for membership to the RCSLT.

Desirable but not essential:

Be familiar with and or trained in;

听听听听听听听 ELKLAN (Supporting Children with SLD or similar)

We can offer the right candidate continued access to high quality professional development opportunities within a vibrant, friendly and dedicated school community.

If you would like an informal discussion about the post, prospective candidates are warmly invited to contact our lead for SEND across the Trust Jan Gough jan.gough@coopacademies.co.uk

Benefits
Local government pension scheme
Co-op staff discount and other benefits

How to apply
Closing date: 6th January 2025
Shortlisting: 7th January 2025
Interviews: w/b 13th January 2025

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Co-op Academies Trust as an aware employer is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust on its behalf. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.We value variety and individual differences, and aim to create a culture, environment and practices at all levels which encompass acceptance, respect and inclusion. All our colleagues are expected to demonstrate a commitment to co-operative values and principles.

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