27 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    Autumn Term start – exact start date is flexible.

  • Closing date

    6 June 2025 at 8am

  • Date listed

    8 May 2025

Job details

Job role

  • Teacher

Visa sponsorship

Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored

Key stage

Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£48,460 -£54,581

Pay scale

PO5 to PO7

Additional allowances

SEND Allowance

What skills and experience we're looking for

This role involves leading speech and language support within the school setting as part of a Trans-Disciplinary Team, with a focus on driving and quality assuring speech and language interventions for children and young people. In addition to delivering high-quality interventions, the role includes overseeing the development of personalised support plans, supervising and mentoring therapeutic staff, and fostering a culture of reflective practice. The position plays a key role in service development, contributing to school improvement initiatives, and ensuring the highest standards of practice. This role also involves shaping training programmes, advising on service delivery, and maintaining professional and safeguarding standards across the school. To be accountable to the Deputy Principal - Pastoral in all matters relating to the role. To liaise with the Principal, Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Trustees as required

What the school offers its staff

In return, the successful candidates will join the committed and highly experienced classroom-based teams who are dedicated in providing the best education. Parkwood Hall offers an outstanding professional development package to all staff. In addition, Parkwood Hall also offers an Employee Assistance Programme, free hot drinks and snacks, and ample car parking. We are based on a beautiful site of more than 30 acres and an impressive Victorian building.

Further details about the role

Overall Duties

  • As part of the Trans-Disciplinary Team (TDT), you will support educational colleagues to provide therapeutic living and learning environments and based on clinical assessment and formulation offer both individualised and group interventions and engagement to our children and young people.
  • Our therapists work collaboratively within our school, this ensures that therapeutic support

permeates every aspect of the education, care and support we offer all of our children and young

people. You will facilitate reflective practice and consultation, and provide workshops, training and guidance to the teams around our children.

  • Ensure the needs and views of our children and young people are at the heart of everything we do: offering evidence based, holistic and child-centred assessments and interventions across the school in line with identified EHCP provision and in response to arising needs.
  • Use advanced specialist knowledge and levels of experience appropriately and effectively across a

range of work practices which is underpinned by comprehensive and extensive theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

  • To use appropriate clinical and professional guidance within practice (e.g. RCSLT or NICE guidance)
  • Organise and facilitate internal child focused meetings where appropriate in partnership with the transdisciplinary team, ensuring appropriate staff are invited.
  • To identity training needs, develop and facilitate training sessions to staff and parents/carers in relation to supporting our children and young people.
  • To identify and deliver training to education or care staff teams in relation to supporting our children and young people
  • To promote and facilitate reflective practice.
  • To work with the Deputy Principal (Pastoral) in helping to promote and develop our service links and work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and carry out any other reasonable duties as required.
  • To induct, supervise and line manage other PHCA Speech and Language Therapists, or other

therapeutic professionals where appropriate (e.g. Therapy Assistant).

  • To advise and participate in service and practice development. This to include contributing to the development of School Improvement Planning.
  • To quality assure reports the work and records of the Speech and Language Team.
  • To support in the organisation and chairing of TDT meetings, including managing the allocation of internal referrals.
  • To complete external referrals to specialist services as required.
  • To role model to all children and young people, education and care colleagues how to promote self- esteem and positive relationships.
  • To undertake high quality clinical assessments of children and young people and develop formulations of therapeutic need. To write reports as part of a transdisciplinary team or individually to reflect assessment, progress and outcomes as required.
  • To work closely with our children and young people, providing evidence-based speech and language

interventions and ensuring personalised adaptable plans of support. This will include communicating, reviewing and celebrating children and young people’s success and achievement with them.

  • To develop evidence-based programmes of speech and language intervention and to formally evaluate the impact and outcomes of such interventions.
  • To develop professional relationships with the other school staff.
  • To keep accurate and contemporaneous online records following professional guidelines and in accordance with legal requirements for maintaining confidentiality and data protection.
  • To complete administrative requirements in a timely manner. These include evidencing that you are meeting EHCP requirements, liaison and completion of TDT reports and updating Parkwood Hall Co- operative Academy electronic systems as appropriate.
  • To attend regular, clinical supervision and line management supervision.
  • To attend and/or inform professional meetings (such as Annual Reviews/TACs/PEPs/CLAs etc) where appropriate.
  • To follow the HCPC standards and maintain membership of HCPC.
  • To maintain professional registration and memberships relevant to the profession.
  • To maintain professional accountability
  • To complete a 6-month probation period as well as ongoing annual performance management reviews.
  • Parkwood Hall Co-operative Academy is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of all children and young people in our care. All staff have a key role and responsibility in this area.

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 Parkwood Hall Co-Operative Academy

School type
Academy, ages 8 to 19
School size
124 pupils enrolled
Age range
8 to 19
Ofsted report
View Ofsted report
Phone number
01322 664441

Arranging a visit to Parkwood Hall Co-Operative Academy

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email zoe.moore@parkwoodhall.co.uk.

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