Speech and Language Therapist

**Reference number**

BUC10461

**Contract type**

Fixed Term / Secondment

**Working hours**

Full Time

**Level of DBS check required**

Enhanced with Barred List

**Date posted**

29 Feb 2024, 11 p.m.

**Application deadline**

31 Mar 2024

**Overview**:
Furze Down School, a Specialist School for Communication and Interaction are seeking to recruit a Speech and Language Therapist (Maternity Cover) on a one-year fixed term contract.

**Salary Type**:Bucks pay

**Salary details**:Pay Range 5-7 equivalent to NHS Band 5 or 6, Depending on Experience and Specialist Qualifications (£28,407 - £42,618)

**Contract type**:Fixed Term

**Hours**:37 hours per week (52 weeks)

**Closing date**:31/03/2024

**Interviews to be held**:TBC

**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

**About the role**:
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.

**About you**:
A qualification and experience in dysphagia is desirable, but not essential.

**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.

Tel No: 01296 711380

**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 cautions and convictions cautions**:

- **All adult cautions and spent convictions 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**, the **Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) guidance** or **Ministry of Justice (MOJ) guidance** (see, in particular, the section titled ‘Exceptions Order’).