Speech & Language Unit Co-ordinator and Class Teacher
Job Summary
Contract Type:
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Advert Start Date:
10/09/2024
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 26/09/2024 12:00
Job Category:
Schools - Teaching
Employment Location:
TS7 9JF
Further Information
Speech & Language Unit Co-ordinator and Class Teacher
Are you a Primary SEND Teacher looking for a new leadership role?
Overfields Primary School are currently looking for an experienced SEND Teacher to lead our Speech & Language unit . This involves teaching in the Key Stage 1 Language unit, delivering outreach sessions and dedicated management time to co-ordinate the work of the unit in partnership with the Speech and Language Therapy team.
The post is a permanent part time position 4 days per week Mon-Thu. Main Pay Scale/Upper Pay Scale with SEN allowance and a TLR2b.
Our highly successful unit is for pupils with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and severe speech sound disorder/difficulty. We provide teaching and learning from Reception to Year 6 for Redcar & Cleveland and Middlesbrough authorities. The provision is attached to our mainstream setting with the children having specific literacy and maths teaching on a morning linked to their individual targets and then integrating into Overfields mainstream school, with support, on an afternoon. This integration is very successful and part of the teaching role would be to work alongside mainstream colleagues delivering the curriculum.
The base holds 24 children split across the key stages. Children are placed within this unit by the local authority, in partnership with Health professionals through a referral and panel process, which the appointed SLU lead will contribute to. Children who attend are dual registered – some attend part-time and some are with us for 0.9 of the week, returning to their home school for an afternoon. Children do not require an EHCP to have a unit place.
Children have weekly sessions with a speech therapist and SEN Support Plan targets, reviews and meetings with parents are conducted jointly with the therapists.
The chosen candidate will be a committed, enthusiastic, and empathetic teacher who enjoys the challenge of working within a SEN environment and who has high expectations of the pupils in their care. Our Language unit pupils make good progress from their starting points.
What we can offer:
• A school that has a highly successful Ofsted inspection
• Support and training from experienced colleagues within the unit
• Enthusiastic, friendly and well-behaved children
• Support for your future development
• The opportunity to work as part of an ambitious and forward-thinking teaching team
• Supportive governors.
Overfields Primary School is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Safer recruitment practice and pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (DBS).
Visits to the school are warmly welcomed and encouraged. Please contact the school on 01642 314548 to arrange an appointment.
Application forms are available to download from the school and Ironstone Academy trust website. There is also extensive Speech & Language Unit information on the website:
https://overfields.ironstoneacademy.org.uk
https://ironstoneacademy.org.uk
Applications should be returned to the school for the attention of Mrs T Watson, Head Teacher or emailed to Mrs L Collishaw, School Business Manager at overfieldsadmin@overfieldsprimary.org.uk
The closing date for applications is 12pm on Thursday 26th September 2024
Successful applicants will be contacted by email for interview. If you have not been contacted by the 4th October 2024 please consider your application unsuccessful.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.