Lead Speech and Language Therapist

Inspiring Futures Through Learning, Milton Keynes, MK11 4BA

3 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  TBC

• Closing date

  23 May 2024 at 10am

• Date listed

  9 May 2024

Job details

• Job role:
  • Teaching assistant
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £50,512.00 Annually (FTE)

Lead Speech and Language Therapist job summary

Lead Speech and Language Therapist

Contract Term: 0.8 FTE, 39 weeks per year

Contract Type: Part time, Permanent

Salary: Grade J, Point 1 FTE £ 50,512

As an IFtL family, we are committed to the levels of collaboration required to shape and protect the future. We start with our schools, our people, our family, and from there we grow. At IFtL we are never alone – one united family striving for excellence in all that we do.

Aim and main purpose of the role:

• To provide leadership and professional management for Speech & Language Therapy across the IFtL trust.
• To lead and work effectively with all relevant educational staff across a wide range of settings, promoting speech and language therapy and developing the skills of others.
• To have responsibility for leading and managing all speech and language therapy staff within IFtL including for effective and timely appraisal, supervision and training (includes Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Assistants).
• To lead the development, implementation and monitoring of a new structured system of support for the Speech & Language Therapy Service, all school staff and parents of children with SLCN.
• To lead the development of Speech and Language Therapy related training for education staff by creating training videos for the IFtL online training platform.
• To have specialist knowledge in a range of speech and language therapy areas such as Autism, Selective Mutism, AAC, Speech Sound disorders etc.
• To promote at all times a positive image of the Speech & Language Therapy Service, children with SLCN and the IFTL.

Closing date: 23rd of May 2024

Interviews: 24th of May 2024 or the week commencing the 3rd of June 2024

Please see the job description for further details.

We can offer:

As part of the Inspiring Futures through Learning, successful candidates will have full access to our staff benefits package, including a bespoke CPD, wellbeing support (Health Assured) discount on gym membership, cinema tickets, cycle to work scheme and much more.

For more information please contact the Central HR team on iftl_recruitment@iftl.co.uk.

Our children and young people come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our colleagues. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our vision of inspiring the futures of us all through learning together.

Our commitment to ensuring equal opportunity and lifelong development is showcased in our 1:1 iPad initiative for learners and teaching colleagues across the schools in our trust. By harnessing the power of technology and collaboration, we aim to reshape and rethink what it means to be a learner into this digital age, and you can play a role in shaping our curriculum offer by joining us on this journey.

Inspiring Futures through Learning is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are expected to share this commitment, to follow IFtL’s safeguarding policies and procedures, and to behave appropriately towards children at all times, both in work and in their personal lives.

All school-based posts are defined as Regulated Activity and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Criminal Records Bureau check

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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 Inspiring Futures Through Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
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