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SalaryLocation: West Yorkshire
Salary: £51,515 to £60,000 + benefits (salary open to negotiation).
Contract: Permanent, 37 hrs per week, term time only or full time all year round (open to negotiation).
Hours: (Mon to Fri 08:45 – 16:45)
Flexible working allowed (where suitable for virtual on-line therapy and assessment)
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 learning difficulties and disabilities, including autism?
These unique and brand new opportunities allow you to work alongside committed school staff in a range of schools across the Trust in all the communities we serve. We aim to deliver an outstanding school experience to children with special educational needs and disabilities and 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 Primary schools. Your core responsibility will be to offer assessment and therapy (on-line where possible to allow for flexible working) sessions but also develop our staff to improve pupil experiences for children with a range of additional special educational needs . This would mean working alongside the NHS Speech and Language intervention when required to ensure we maximise capacity that already happens in our schools. We want you to support the ongoing daily work, building capacity and expertise with your input within assessment and therapy strategies. We want our provision for SEN pupils to improve across the Trust developing into outstanding experiences and both appointments will help greatly with this key target. Professional supervision would be provided if required.
There are exciting and new opportunities based in our schools with one concentrating in West Yorkshire and the other in the North West or West Midlands to work 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 SENCO’s based in our schools and belong to a team of Directors of SEN who also work across the Trust. The network of SENCOs which you would belong to is led by our SEN lead across the Trust; Dominic Wall Executive Headteacher. Virtual work from home is also possible for therapy and assessment input to allow for flexible working with the pattern to be determined in dialogue with your line manager. There is 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.
Location: Flexible, one Speech and Language therapist required to work at all academies within West Yorkshire, with the second within all our schools in Manchester, Wirral and Stoke.
Essential Criteria:
- A qualified Speech and Language Therapist with a motivation for working with children with special educational needs and disabilities and their families.
- Experience working with children with complex needs such as ADHD, Autism and ASD.
- Training and experience working with children with challenging behaviours.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge and understanding of working within a culturally diverse community.
- Ability to develop effective strategies to engage hard-to-reach families.
- Experienced in delivering training to professionals.
- Experience of liaising effectively with relevant agencies, including health professionals.
- Experience of monitoring and evaluating for improvement.
- Current member of the HCPC and eligible for membership to the RCSLT.
Desirable but not essential:
Be familiar with and or trained in;
- 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 SEN across the Trust Dominic Wall Executive Headteacher - dominic.wall@coopacademies.co.uk
Benefits
Local government pension scheme
Co-op staff discount and other benefits
How to apply
Closing date: Friday February 2nd 1pm 2024
Interviews: Friday February 9th 2024
Applications must be on our application form (returned in Word or Google Doc, not pdf format), which is available along with other supporting information on our website at https://www.coopacademies.co.uk/vacancies/ to centralrecruitment@coopacademies.co.uk
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
