Senior Speech and Language Therapist
Parkwood Hall Co-Operative Academy, Swanley, Kent, BR8 8DRThis job expired on 6 June 2025 – see similar jobs
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 is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to be part of something transformational. Under new leadership, we’ve reimagined our curriculum and ethos — and now we’re building a dedicated in-house therapy team. We’re looking for a Senior Speech and Language Therapist to lead and help shape this exciting new chapter.
🌟 What You'll Be Doing:
- Lead and manage our growing SaLT team
- Work collaboratively within a strong trans-disciplinary team (TDT)
- Deliver tailored, evidence-based interventions for a wide range of communication differences
- Support pupils, families and staff with innovative SaLT approaches
Be a vital part of our strategic push for inclusive, person-centred care
🧠 Our Pupils Will Inspire You:
Every day is different. Every day brings a new challenge. And every day, our pupils will remind you why you do this work.
👋 Ready to Apply?
Request an application form from contact@parkwoodhall.co.uk Please note: CVs cannot be accepted.
Deadline: Friday 6th June at 9:00am Interview Date: TBC
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse team. This role requires fluency in spoken English, and an enhanced DBS check will be required.
Be part of something bigger. Join Parkwood Hall and make your mark.
What the school offers its staff
🎁 What’s in It for You:
- A leadership role that allows you to drive real change in young lives
- Term-time schedule (plus 2 weeks) – enjoy work-life balance and long holidays
- Work in a supportive, inclusive, and forward-thinking academy
-
Access
to excellent CPD opportunities and a vibrant staff community
Join at a pivotal time of growth, where your ideas and input will shape services from the ground up
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 information about the job
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.
About Parkwood Hall Co-Operative Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 8 to 19
- School size
- 135 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 8 to 19
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Parkwood Hall Co-Operative Academy website
- Email address
- zoe.moore@parkwoodhall.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01322 664441
Parkwood Hall is day school for pupils aged 8-19 years with moderate to severe learning difficulties, and other diverse and complex needs. The pupils here are an inspiration to us all.
It’s an exciting time at Parkwood Hall and you would be joining at a transformational time for the academy. Under a new leadership team, Parkwood Hall has undergone radical changes to its behaviour ethos, and curriculum design and implementation.
Parkwood Hall aims to provide an inclusive learning environment which challenges pupils to achieve success and to thrive. Our co-operative values are important to us, especially honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. They underpin the way we do things here at Parkwood Hall. We are committed to providing a learning environment and learning pathway that enables all our pupils to achieve the best they can be and help prepare them for adult life so they can live as independent a life as possible.
We have a highly skilled team of professionals including teachers and teaching assistants, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, Positive Support Behaviour practitioners, school nurses and residential staff.
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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