Speech & Language Therapist - Furze Down School
Location: Winslow
Overview
FURZE DOWN SCHOOL
A Specialist School for Communication and Interaction
A Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs
Purpose:
To provide a specialised child-centred speech and language therapy service to meet the needs of staff and pupils at Furze Down School including their partners, delivered as an integral part of the educational package
Salary Type: Bucks pay
Salary details: Equivalent to NHS Band 5 or 6 (according to experience) £29,970 - £44,000
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37, 52 week contract
Closing date: 31/01/2025 12:00
Interviews to be held: Week of 10th February 2025
About us
At Furze Down School our vision is to: Create a Centre of Excellence for Special Educational Needs through our Specialism in Communication and Interaction; Raise the profile and status of children with Special Educational Needs, and to give support to their families and carers; Inspire and empower children and young people with SEN to become ambitious and aspirational for their futures; foster curiosity and a love of learning alongside the development of the key concepts, knowledge, skills and attributes important to being able to flourish in life, learning, work and leisure
Website: https://www.fds.org.uk/
About the role
Please see Job Description Attached.
About you
Please see Person Specification Attached.
Other information
Visits to the school are warmly welcome. To arrange a visit or to find out more about the role, please contact our school office on the number below. Please send completed application forms to the email address below.
Apply via https://furzedownschool.face-ed.co.uk/Emp/Campaign/View/12973
Tel No: 01296 711380
Email: [email protected]
Our school is wholly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, volunteers and visitors to share this commitment.
We a legal duty of care for the health, safety, security and wellbeing of all pupils and staff.
This duty of care incorporates the duty to ‘safeguard’ all pupils and it is the responsibility of the Governing Body and the Senior Leadership Team to ensure that this duty is uncompromised at all times. In performing this duty, we recognise that there can be no complacency where child protection and safeguarding procedures are concerned.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare:
- All unspent convictions and conditional cautions
- All spent convictions and adult cautions that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2020).
For further information on filtering please refer to Nacro guidance and the guidance issued by the Ministry of Justice (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).
It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. All shortlisted applicants will be required to complete self-disclosure form and return prior to interview.
