Speech and Language Therapy Lead
Hall Green School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B28 0AAThis job expired on 16 January 2025 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
16 January 2025 at 3pm
Date listed
16 December 2024
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: You will be working 36.5 hours per week excluding a 30 minute lunch break Monday to Friday, term-time only.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Group 4B, Points 27-31 £37,035.00 - £40,476.00
What skills and experience we're looking for
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Registered as Speech and Language Therapist with the Health & Care Professionals Council.
In this role, you will lead on speech and language therapy across the Trust and provide support, assessment and interventions to staff, pupils, and their families.
It will be essential for you to have a vision for developing targeted interventions to remove barriers to learning.
Have experience of successfully developing strategies to improve outcomes for students.
Have a proven track record of re-engaging and raising outcomes for students experiencing barriers to learning within an 11-19 environment.
Have experience in providing individual and group interventions speech and language therapy.
Have experience in triage skills and relevant knowledge of levels of care within speech and language therapy.
Have a proven skill set in delivering training to professionals, volunteers and parents.
This role will be crucial in delivering the Trust's ambition to provide the highest quality early help to young people and our workforce experiencing speech and language challenges, achieving the benefits of our collaboration model and mission to 'Achieving more together'.
What the school offers its staff
WMAT is being founded by three high performing secondary schools in Birmingham - Hall Green, Kings Norton Girls' and Swanshurst - who expect to transfer into WMAT on 1st January 2025.
You will be joining at the beginning of our journey, as we establish, embed and then grow the trust. For the right individual, we believe that this is an extremely exciting lead role. At WMAT, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and empowering environment for both our staff and students. We believe that a strong, jointly created provision for speech and language therapy resource is essential for delivering the vision and aims of our trust.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
WMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its pupils and expects all those working at the School to share this commitment. If you are shortlisted online searches may be carried out as part of due diligence checks (i.e. Google and Social Media Platforms). The successful applicant will be subject to the following checks: Enhanced DBS, Childcare Disqualification (where applicable), a prohibition from teaching (where applicable), qualifications (where applicable), medical fitness, identity and right to work. All applicants will also be required to provide two suitable references.
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About Hall Green School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 16
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 907 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Hall Green School website
- Email address
- recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01216288787
Hall Green School is a very popular, heavily oversubscribed and academically successful 11-16 Converter Academy. We are a highly diverse institution, both ethnically and as a fully accessible mainstream school, attracting pupils from across the city with physical disabilities. We have wonderful pupils who fully contribute to the school’s ‘caring, nurturing and inclusive culture’ described by Ofsted (2019) as ‘a welcoming and inclusive school’ where ‘pupils are happy, and they achieve well’ and the ‘positive relationships between pupils and staff are a hallmark of the school’.
The school is part of the newly formed West Midlands Academy Trust (WMAT) which opened in January 2025. As one of the three founding members, the school has been integral to forming the Trust’s mission:
• Relentless focus upon delivering an excellent Quality of Education, resulting in strong progress and attainment for all groups of pupils.
• Emphasis upon personal development and well-being for staff and pupils.
Arranging a visit to Hall Green School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk.
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