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BAND 6 Speech and Language Therapist

BAND 6 Speech and Language Therapist

Trinity School

Barking and Dagenham

Salary:
Band 6 - £37,157 per annum Inc. Outer London Weighting
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
September 2022
Apply by:
30 June 2022

Job overview

Our School

Trinity School is a 3-19 year special school for students with MLD, SLD, PMLD and Autistic Spectrum Disorder. We are committed to the development of quality learning and communication opportunities. This is an ideal opportunity for you to develop your skills in working with children with a range of learning disabilities with associated complex needs. You will work alongside experienced therapists with additional specialist support to deliver input via a consultative model of Speech and Language Therapy. Our dynamic and enthusiastic communication team works as an integral part of the whole school and is seeking a new team member.

You should be prepared to work as part of the whole school team, be innovative, flexible and passionate about this area of work. 

Band 6

We are looking for a confident and skilled professional with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to extend clinical and leadership skills in a School which is committed to enhancing language and communication skills throughout the curriculum. You will have already delivered a therapy service to children with a range of difficulties, including learning disabilities with associated complex needs and Autistic Spectrum Disorder preferably in an educational setting.

You will:

  • work collaboratively with teachers to plan, deliver and evaluate language and communication activities across a number of curriculum areas
  • be involved in training staff in aspects of language and communication development
  • be involved in supervising colleagues and students on clinical placements
  • provide feeding support and advice to staff (responsibility will vary depending on dysphagia experience) 

We can offer professional supervision, a highly supportive team of teachers and classroom assistants, an environment that values language and communication skills and the expertise of our SLTs, training and development opportunities and a pension scheme.

Visits to the school are strongly recommended before submitting an application. 

All applications should be made on the Trinity School application form available from the school website on https://www.trinityschooldagenham.org.uk/Vacancies-1/ CVs will not be accepted and should not be submitted.

Completed applications, Declaration Disclosure Form and Disqualification from Caring for Children Form must be sent to rchoudhury@trinity.bardaglea.org.uk.

For further details please contact Runa Choudhury, HR Assistant on the above email or call 020 34355959

Closing date: 12 noon on Thursday 30 June 2022

Band 6 - £37,157 per annum Inc. Outer London Weighting

Full time – 37.5 hours per week

(working term-time for each academic year - 39 weeks per year but paid 52 weeks)

Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced criminal record check via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check will be undertaken on all applicants.

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About Trinity School

Our School

Trinity School is an all age, modern, vibrant special school catering for the needs of students who have a wide range of learning difficulties, moderate, severe, profound and complex. A number of our pupils also have an autism spectrum condition (ASC).     

At present Trinity is one of two special schools in Barking and Dagenham and it is currently oversubscribed. A wide range of special educational needs is reflected in the school population. The key characteristics of learners are as follows: almost all the pupils  have severe learning difficulties of which 54 % have Autistic Spectrum Condition, and 13% have extremely complex medical and/or profound and multiple learning difficulties.   

The school also has a 48 week provision known as the Living and Learning Centre. It offers education to a group of twelve pupils with profound autistic spectrum condition. In addition a highly successful extensive extended schools provision is run on each Saturday morning of the term, as well as during some of the school holidays.   

The school has been judged as an outstanding school for three consecutive inspections in 2007, 2009 and 2014. Outstanding pupil progress is reflected in whole school data and accreditation attainment and this is supported by established and embedded pedagogies throughout the school.    

Main Priorities of the School 

  • To provide the best service possible to our pupils and their families.
  • To enable our pupils and their families to stay together and for pupils to acquire those skills that will support the ability to live as independent a life as possible within this community.   
  • The school seeks to play our part in counteracting the local cycle of deprivation by teaching relevant skills and supporting families and the work force in raising expectations and fulfilling aspirations.   
  • To establish models of best practice which can be shared with colleagues across the local authority to ensure that there is a continuity of approaches for people for whom access to services and support will be life-long.   
  • To foster a well trained work force with competencies in key pedagogies via access to high quality staff training facilities.   
  • To use staff development as a means of securing planned succession and ensure the continuity of effective teaching.   
  • To secure the legacy of an outstanding school  
  • To promote attainment and achievement of all pupils regardless of their disability   
  • To support the school’s raising attainment agenda through a focus on curriculum development, pedagogies and staff training.   
  • To foster partnership between Trinity school, the parents, the Local Authority and partner schools/services in sharing our practices for the benefit of children and young people with disabilities in our community.   
  • To promote the inclusion of all pupils through a rich and varied curriculum and through the delivery of appropriate pedagogy that is taught in a school with excellent facilities and resources. 
  • To enable an extensive and appropriate use of new technologies as they evolve.  
     

Safer Recruitment Practice

Trinity School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our pupils and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. A criminal record check via the DBS will be undertaken for the successful candidate.   This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and a comprehensive screening process, including a disclosure check will be undertaken on all applicants.     

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Applications closed