Specialist Teacher Children's Therapies (Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Tr

Are you passionate about working with children’s language and communication? Would you like a new challenge? We have a new role available for a specialist teacher to join our team working alongside our therapists and assistants.

The post-holder will be part of our single point of access team, providing assessment and supporting schools to deliver therapy programmes and advice for children with language and communication needs and building on our existing training offer.

You will have experience of working with children with language and communication needs in schools, have a secure understanding of effective approaches to support these needs and be able to evidence this through CPD.

Flexible working, part-time hours and job share applications considered.
In choosing to work here you will become part of a highly successful integrated therapy service in an Outstanding Trust with a strong commitment to training and development and robust supervision and shadowing opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide therapy packages for language and communication, supporting schools to integrate programmes.

The role will include some language and communication assessment as well as training and development work. You will

• conduct video-based sessions and face to face sessions in schools in the areas of language and communications
• support schools to develop bespoke communication programmes for individual children
• provide assessment and reports within the scope of their professional qualification
• have delegated responsibility for language and communication training as part of universal and targeted programmes in schools; as a new post, there is scope to develop this responsibility in the future to the universal and targeted offer for sensory and physical needs
• use their transferable knowledge to support schools to integrate language and communication work into the child's education
• influence effective delivery of school-based approaches for speech, language and communication support in schools
• be involved in some day to day planning

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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