Speech & Language Therapist - Term Time - Special Needs Position

Danecourt School, Gillingham

• Ref:MED887-7031-39S
• Posted:23/05/2022
• Pay:PO1 point 32 - £36,372 - actual salary - £31,561
• Start Date:Immediate
• App Close Date:17/06/2022 at 12:00
• Interviews:TBC

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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Complex Needs and Dysphagia 

Required as soon as possible  

Salary - PO1 point 27 - 37 - £31,895 - £41,592FTE (equivalent to band 6 - 7)

Starting at  PO1 point 32 - £36,372 - actual salary - £31,561 

Hours: 37 hours per week, 39 weeks per year (term time)  

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapist who is developing  an existing specialism in working with children with complex learning needs. You will need to be creative, driven and be aspirational in your desire for children to achieve. 

Danecourt is a special school catering for primary age children who have special educational needs. At Danecourt our mission is to provide all pupils with a “stimulating learning environment where every individual is valued, respected, safe and successful”. All pupils receive a personalised curriculum tailored to meet their specific needs.

You will be working with our Occupational Therapist, Behavioural Specialist, and Therapies Assistant to deliver you expertise within our primary-aged Special School. The role will require liaison with our NHS Therapy team and collaborating closely with the teaching team also.  

You will be responsible for developing the children’s communication needs across the school, implementing the use of low, lite and high AAC, amongst a range of other communication strategies that embody a special school Total (inclusive) communication approach. Experience of delivering universal, specialist and targeted strategies is essential, as well as delivering training to parents, class and whole school teams. 

Basic dysphagia training is essential to support a small but growing number of children in our school who have assessed/known feeding difficulties.

Supervision will be provided by our Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist.

Danecourt is part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of Academies in Greenwich and Kent & Medway. Our academies transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. 

In return Maritime Trust  offers:

Comprehensive programme of CPD

Development & career progression opportunities

A generous package of staff benefits.

For more information, please contact: Lou Elliott - l.elliott@danecourt-maritime.org

Please note: we may hold interviews as and when applications are received and we reserve the right to offer to a candidate prior to the closing date. We only accept applications submitted online via the TES website and which are completed before the closing deadline. With this in mind, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

The Trust and its academies are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The post is subject to a successful DBS clearance and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before an appointment is confirmed.                               

Information about the school

Danecourt Special School is part of the Maritime Multi-Academy Trust, an innovative partnership of schools in Greenwich, Bexley, Kent and Medway . Our schools transform through collaboration and an entrepreneurial curriculum which equips children with life skills. We are a special school catering for primary aged children who have special educational needs. The children who attend Danecourt have a wide breadth of needs including complex learning difficulties and autism.

At Danecourt our mission is support all pupils to become “STARS” -

S - Self reliant T - Team Players A - Aspirational R - Resilient S - Successful

This is facilitated through pupils receiving a personalised curriculum that is tailored to meet their individual specific needs. The highly trained staff team maintain high expectations of what each individual pupil is able to achieve, striving to ensure that they all reach their maximum potential; celebrating difference and encouraging curiosity and creativity. Staff work collaboratively with families/carers and a range of other agencies in order to meet the pupils needs and as a result, pupils make strong progress academically, emotionally and socially. Pupil achievement is hugely valued and celebrated in a manner that is meaningful and appropriate for each pupil.

If you are interested in becoming a part of the Danecourt community and working with us, telephone the school and make an appointment to come and meet some of the pupils and staff and to experience for yourself the quality of education given to all of our children and the unique atmosphere throughout our school.

Job Contact Information

• Name:Maritime Academy Trust
• Address:50 John Harrison Way, Greenwich, London, SE10 0BG
• Telephone: 020 8858 0394
• Email: recruitment@maritimeacademytrust.org

Documents

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• Candidate Information Pack