Speech and Language Therapist - The Promise School
Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust, Okehampton, EX20 1PUThis job expired on 23 May 2022
Job start date
1 September 2022
Closing date
23 May 2022 at 9am
Date listed
9 May 2022
Job details
Job role
- Learning support or cover supervisor
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £30,000-£39,000
Speech and Language Therapist - The Promise School job summary
To ensure best practice when supporting pupils across the Trust (primary and secondary) with complex speech, language and communication difficulties.
To support the development of staff, and provide training to Trust staff as directed, in the area of speech and language to ensure all trust schools are universally speech and language friendly.
To work collaboratively with our Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENDCos) to ensure that the needs of vulnerable children and young people are met.
To promote the Trusts' vision for world class safeguarding, model excellent practice and ensure that all role emerging trainees adopt and adhere to safeguarding policy, protocol and practice.
To provide training and continuing professional development opportunities to Trust staff as directed.
To demonstrate specialist knowledge in speech and language therapy and support the development of other staff in this area.
Through Early Help or Annual Review processes and in close collaboration with Designated Safeguarding leads and/or SENDCo’s as appropriate and per policies to initiate and/or contribute to multi-agency case discussions and management in relation to complex cases when the need for this has been identified through assessment and observation, including child protection issues, ensuring a well-coordinated care plan and pathway.
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 Dartmoor Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@dmatschools.org.uk
The Promise School is a brand-new Free School, which is an all-through special school for children with SEMH, aged 4-16. Opening in September 2022, initially in interim accommodation on the sites of Okehampton Community College and St James C of E Primary School, before moving into the purpose-built brand-new school at Easter 2023. The school will initially open with 40 pupils, 20 in KS2 and 20 in KS3, before expanding to 70 pupils for the academic year 2023/24 and 100 pupils in the academic year 2024/25.
The school will serve the West Devon and South Hams areas, with admissions through the local authority, through the EHCP process. At the Promise, we will help all of our children and young people to acknowledge their past, build a successful future, and feel happy and safe in their present.
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