Speech and Language Therapist

**THE HARMONY TRUST**

**Lead Speech & Language Therapist**

**36 hours and 40 minutes per week (All Year Round)**

**Grade 10, scale points 40-43 (£46,549 - £49,590) [Equivalent to NHS Band 7]**

**Permanent opportunity, flexible working requests considered.**

The Harmony Trust is a strong Multi Academy Trust with academies in Oldham, Tameside and Derby. We are looking for a motivated, passionate and experienced **Speech and Language Therapist** to join our Inclusion Service (Northwest based) in this new role.

Our Vision and Values

The Harmony Trust has the highest aspirations for its pupils, parents and staff members. We work hard to ensure that every child achieves. Our vision is to provide an excellent primary education that gives our children the very best chance of succeeding in life.  Parents are very important to achieving this vision and we aim to work in partnership with them to ensure that all our children Believe Achieve Succeed. Our aim is to ensure that children at our academies enjoy the best education from the early years to the end of the primary stage.  We believe that school should be a place where every child achieves and makes progress in their learning. We believe in the importance of children developing well-being and high self-esteem if they are to learn and do well.

We also believe in The Harmony Trust being an organisation where Learning Matters and where children become confident learners and staff are committed to learning and education.  We have a great team of people working in our Academies.  We aim to retain them by investing in professional development, offering opportunities to work across the Trust ensuring Harmony is a great place to work.

Development Opportunity

This is a new role for the Trust and is one which brings together universal, targeted and specialist support. We expect that the post holder will be able to advise on effective environments, develop staff CPD packages and provide specific support for individual pupils. We also expect that the postholder will be part of our development team offering expertise within and beyond our trust.

Our aim is to build capacity across our academies. Our Lead SALT will develop academy based staff to be Communication Champions through staff CPD and regular support networks and communications. Building this capacity will ultimately lead to improve skillset so that we can effectively meet pupils speech, language and communication needs.

The post holder would be deployed into our Northwest Hub from September 2023, they will work in person in Oldham and Tameside. They will have the opportunity to influence and shape practice across our Derby Hub through the use of technology and a part of the Inclusion Service Strategic Leadership Team.
- have experience as a Speech and Language Therapist
- have high expectations of achievement
- Be able to lead and develop others
- Have the expertise to support the Trust Inclusion Service
- have experience of inclusion and supporting vulnerable families
- Want to work at both an operational and strategic level within the organisation
- Be expected to lead and be responsible for the delivery, co-ordination across the Trust as well as maximising opportunities to deliver training and support externally.

We will offer you the opportunity to:

- make a difference and transform the lives of children
- work with a great team of colleagues and professionals
- work with our families who are supportive and appreciative
- career development through regular training, coaching and mentoring
- the opportunity to progress and work towards future roles within the Trust
- Lead and manage others

**Closing date: 12pm Wednesday 22nd November 2023**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £48,474.00-£51,515.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

- Oldham, Greater Manchester (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Oldham, Greater Manchester: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 22/11/2023