Band6 or Band7 Speech and Language Therapist
Orchard Hill College Academy Trust, Sutton, SM1 1DA5 days remaining to apply
Start date details
to be confirmed
Closing date
8 July 2024 at 9am
Date listed
13 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Pastoral, health and welfare
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time, term time: 08:45-16:30 Monday - Thurday and 08:45- 16:15 on Fridays. Flexible working opportunities are also offered.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Band 6: FTE £39,181 - £46,259 per annum, Band 7: FTE £47,341 – £53,419 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
The Speech & Language Therapy Team are passionate about:
- Working collaboratively with curriculum staff to provide a total communication environment throughout the student’s day
- Ensuring all students can communicate to their potential through the assessment and provision of appropriate AAC
- Creating capable and enabling environments within a multi-disciplinary Positive Behaviour Support framework
- Supporting the whole college with hearing the student voice, accessible information, self-advocacy and the promotion of every student’s human rights
- Ensuring all students are able to eat and drink safely
- Working collaboratively and creatively with the rest of the Integrated Services team, which comprises Occupational Therapy, Creative Arts therapists, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Positive behaviour support leads.
We are looking for a Speech & Language Therapist who loves working with people with Learning Disabilities in creative, functional and person-centred ways. You will deliver a Speech & Language Therapy service at a universal and / or individual level, as clinically required.
What the school offers its staff
We can offer you:
• 40 days’ annual leave for full time therapists (public/bank holidays off, Christmas closure period)
• Flexible working schemes
• Enhanced CPD & career progression pathway
• Workplace research
• Mental health advocates across all sites
• Local government pension scheme
• Comprehensive wellbeing programme including ride2work, electric car & home electronic schemes, counselling referrals and wellbeing sessions.
• Opportunities to engage with internal professional networks.
• Occupational health & wellbeing support initiatives, including EAP.
• Company pension scheme with lump-sum death benefits.
• Family-friendly policies including enhanced parental leave schemes.
• Salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle to Work, season ticket loan.
• Discounted gym membership subscription.
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.
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About Orchard Hill College Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- jobs@orchardhill.ac.uk
Orchard Hill College (the College) and Orchard Hill College Academy Trust (the Trust) together form Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust (OHC&AT), a family of specialist education providers for pupils and students from nursery to further education across London, Surrey, Sussex and Berkshire. As an Outstanding provider (Ofsted 2019) and Academy sponsor, Orchard Hill College has a strong track record for making a positive impact within the local communities it serves.
Pupils and students within the OHC&AT family have a wide range of learning abilities and additional needs including autistic spectrum disorder; speech, language and communication difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; profound and multiple disabilities; and physical disabilities including multi-sensory impairment and complex health needs.
Our ambition is to contribute further to improving the education offer for all pupils and students in our communities, including those with SEND. The College offers specialist educational programmes for students aged 16 and over in College centres and satellite provision in London and the South. The Academy Trust enables us to build on and extend scope of our work in these geographical areas, so that Academy pupils can also benefit from our expertise and access a greater range of opportunities arising from our strong community and stakeholder networks.
Supporting our College and Academies, OHC&AT also operates a range of services and support including Quality and Standards, Learning Support and Business Support.
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