Start date: 3 March 2025 or as soon as possible.
Hours per week: 36.5, Term time only
West Midlands Academy Trust
Hall Green Academy
Southam Road
Birmingham
B28 0AA
Telephone number: 0121 628 8787
Contact email: recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk
Contract type: Permanent
We are delighted to welcome you as a prospective candidate to become WMAT’s first trust speech and language therapy lead. As we embark on an exciting journey to establish a new multi-academy trust, your expertise and vision will play a pivotal role in shaping our culture and supporting our mission. We hope that the information pack provides you sufficient insight and information to decide if you have the right qualities, skills and experience to apply for the position.
We wish to appoint a qualified, dynamic, and highly motivated Speech and Language Therapy professional with one of the following professional registrations:
* Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
* Registered as a Speech and Language Therapist with the Health & Care Professionals Council
In this role, you will lead and deliver the speech and language therapy strategy across the trust including direct work with young people and families.
The successful candidate will provide strategic and clinical expertise and advice to school staff, supporting assessment and interventions to staff, pupils, and their families.
This role will be crucial in delivering the Trust’s ambition to provide the highest quality early help to young people and our workforce experiencing speech and language challenges, achieving the benefits of our collaboration model and mission to ‘Achieving more together’.
WMAT is being founded by three high performing secondary schools in Birmingham – Hall Green, Kings Norton Girls’ and Swanshurst – who expect to transfer into WMAT on 1 January 2025.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore, the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.
How to Apply
For further details and an application form please contact recruitment@wmatrust.co.uk.
Applicants requesting an online application form must also submit a signed copy of their application, either at the point of being called for interview or as soon as possible after the closing date.
This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to necessary pre-employment checks, including: an enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work. All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.
Applicants please note: This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment. Please use the contact details in the advert for information on actual employment conditions.
Rehabilitation of offenders: This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013, and 2020. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.
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