Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

The Harmony Trust Ltd, Oldham, OL4 1RR

18 days remaining to apply

Start date details
Once pre-employment checks are complete
Closing date
1 August 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
9 July 2025

Job details

Job role: Other support roles
Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern: Full time: 36 hours 40 minutes per week, flexible working patterns are welcomed
Contract type: Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary: £41,511 - £45,718

What skills and experience we're looking for

The successful candidate will share the vision and values of The Harmony Trust, demonstrating a firm commitment to inclusion and ensuring that every child, family, and member of staff is supported to reach their fullest potential.

As our Speech and Language Therapist, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality Speech and Language Therapy services within our academies. Working in close partnership with children, families, and education staff, you will be fully supported by our dedicated Speech and Language Therapy Team, as well as colleagues from The Harmony Trust Inclusion Team and The Harmony Trust Development Team. This collaborative approach will enable you to contribute to the development and delivery of innovative, impactful services that benefit the entire Trust community.

In addition to providing direct therapeutic support, you will offer supervision and guidance to fellow team members, including other Therapists and our Advanced Speech and Language Therapy Practitioners. You will have opportunities to work both within our specialist Inclusion Hubs and mainstream classroom settings, playing a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing the way we deliver inclusive speech and language services.

Your responsibilities will include assessing the needs of pupils, designing and implementing targeted intervention programmes, delivering and facilitating staff training, and producing high-quality, evidence-based reports to inform practice and provision.

What the school offers its staff

The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education so that every academy is a ‘GreatPlace2Learn.’  Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage. Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children achieve our motto: ‘Believe Achieve Succeed’.   We believe that school should be a place where every child makes progress in a safe and supportive environment. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well. 

We also believe in The Harmony Trust being a ‘GreatPlace2Work’ where staff are supported to thrive by a trust that is committed to learning and education.  We have a great team of people working in our Academies.  We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work. 

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

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.