About The Role

Salary: £43,151 (FTE) per annum

Hours: Full time at 37 per week

Location: This is a group role and will require visits to our colleges.

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist passionate about making a difference in supporting a young person's future?

Would you like to work for a supportive, inclusive and wellbeing focused employer with an Ofsted Outstanding rating?

As a Speech and Language Therapist you will join the East Kent College Group in striving to offer and build an incredible future for the young people who study in our group of colleges.

You will have autonomy to make a genuine difference, in a supportive and experienced environment with qualified senior speech and language therapist. You will provide services to our Group's Colleges, in Broadstairs, Canterbury, Ashford, Folkestone, Sheppey and Dover and likely be based in Broadstairs. We’re open to discuss and work together to create a perfect working environment.

You will work with a range of students with EHCP’s and Personalised Plans who attend our colleges and require support with their learning difficulties and disabilities. Students aged from 16 plus, will have a broad range of SEN and SEMH, and are on Pre-entry to level 3, and a variety of vocational courses.

The role will involve;

carrying out assessments
delivering therapy
supervising support staff who deliver language and communication programmes
·offering staff training
contributing to the EHCP process
working with staff to support them to differentiate teaching and support

About You

You’ll have a minimum of four years’ experience of delivering speech therapy with experience of working with post 16 aged young people.

You will also:

Have a recognised qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
Be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Be a registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists or eligible for membership.
Be a team player.
Be flexible in meeting the challenges that can arise day-to-day in a Further Education environment.
Have an excellent understanding of safeguarding procedure and practice

Benefits

Generous pension (18.4% employer contribution)
Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
Generous holiday allowance (29 days), annual community volunteer day and an annual staff celebration day
Relocation Assistance Scheme
Cycle to Work and Car Leasing Scheme
My 10 days – bid for up to 10 days off to pursue voluntary work
Continuous professional development

Don’t worry about updating your CV for this position. We have a short online application form and will get back to everyone who applies, successful or otherwise.

Simply click ‘apply’ and we’ll let you know about an interview date. We may close this vacancy early dependent on the number of applicants.

Please contact the Resourcing Team at [email protected] if you have any general queries. Alternatively, please contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions about working for the group or about the role itself.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. The Group’s designation as a ‘designated establishment’ means that all posts within EKC Group are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; applicants are therefore advised that appropriate safeguarding checks (including an enhanced DBS check) will be undertaken on all successful applicants; job offers will be made on the basis of satisfactory DBS and other checks, including the receipt of two references. If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process. Applicants should note that it is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

EKC Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award; this confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. Similarly, our commitment to Care Leavers means that we will interview applicants who meet the minimum criteria and who have declared on their application that they are a Care Leaver.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.

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