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Speech and Language Therapist

Speech and Language Therapist

Manchester Communication Academy

Manchester

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Salary:
£22,393-£27,343 (pro rata for term time working)
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Start date:
1st September 2018
Apply by:
22 April 2018

Job overview

An Exciting Opportunity to Join an Innovative Academy 

Manchester Communication Academy is seeking to recruit an exceptional, enthusiastic and inspirational Speech and Language Therapist to support our work in providing the best outcomes for our students.

The main purpose of the role is to work across Manchester Communication Academy and Manchester Communication Primary Academy to provide support for those students who have various levels of speech and communication needs. You will actively influence curriculum design to develop the communication skills of all students as well as providing tailored, individual programmes and support for students whose speech and language needs are a barrier to progress.  

We seek an inspirational individual with a positive outlook, a proactive attitude and tenacity to ensure an equitable education for all. We are particularly looking for someone with experience of working with children with SEND (Special Educational Needs or Disability). 

This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role, in a dedicated team of staff, to ensure the success of our pupils. 

We offer excellent CPD opportunities, career development and the opportunity to make a difference to young lives every day. 

If you are ready for a new and exciting challenge we will offer you:

  • Excellent career progression routes through a talent management strategy for those who are ambitious and keen to develop.
  • We have a half day on a Friday with an hour's training from 1 to 2pm with a variety of teaching and learning communities to participate in.
  • A staff well-being group who meet regularly to discuss workload and work-life balance and organise wellbeing and social events.
  • Staff can take one 'flexi day' holiday per year.

Your supporting statement should be no more than 2 side of A4, font size 11 and should reference you meet the criteria on the Job Description/Person Specification.  

Manchester Communication Academy is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure for a Regulated Activity via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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About Manchester Communication Academy

Why Join Us?

Manchester Communication Academy is a highly successful 11-16 comprehensive school in north Manchester. In 2023, the school was placed in the top 10 % of schools nationally based on key stage 4 outcomes and has consistently secured student progress outcomes that are significantly above the national average.

Manchester Communication Academy is also host to Manchester Communication Research School, part of a national network of schools that is partnered with the Education Endowmment Foundation to support schools to effectively embed evidence informed practice that will break the link between family income and educational attainment. This means that the school is at the forefront of evidence informed practice and offers opportunities for involvement in wider national partnerships with other successful schools.

Manchester Communication Academy is part of Greater Manchester Academies Trust. Leaders and teachers across the Trust are driven by the aim of mitigating the impact of social disadvantage. This is achieved through a collective ownership from all leaders and teachers to prioritise the highest quality teaching and learning combined with effective partnerships with families and the wider community. We achieve this through recruiting on values; a significant investment in the highest quality, evidence informed professional development; and a highly skilled family partnership and social investment team.

The Trust is fully committed to it’s ethos of with you…for you…about you…Not just for our students but also for all of our staff.

Student and Staff well-being is high on our agenda and your professional development and interests are a priority for us. We want our young people to get the best possible deal and that can only be achieved if their teachers are happy, healthy and know that they are valued. Our commitment to you includes but is not exclusive to:

 No marking policy-feedback policy is evidence informed.

 No written reports.

 One Flexi-Day a year, fully paid.

 All quality assurance is collaborative and transparent-we do not apply judgements.

 All funeral requests granted without question.

 We expect you to attend your child’s nativity or open morning.

 No meetings after school.

 No additional cover outside of directed time.

 Teaching staff have 20% protected non-contact time.

 All detentions are centralised and facilitated by pastoral team, not teachers.

 We develop leadership positions and undertake shadow-staffing/succession planning

exercises to see who we need to retain.

 PM is called Performance Development and we focus on how to continue to thrive and excel

in the areas of your role that you already enjoy and demonstrate brilliance.

 All new staff are buddied up with a mentor outside of their faculty area.

 We make a big deal out of events that support your well-being, such as random acts of kindness, Macmillan coffee mornings, cultural diversity celebrations, Thank a Teacher. Staff are recognised and rewarded through our staff recognition scheme

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