Specialist Teacher (Communication and Language)

All candidates will be expected to go through rigorous safeguarding checks and disclose a full work experience with references. Gaps in employment will be checked. Further details about the role This is a part-time, advisory post, supporting nurseries, childminders and parents to enable them to meet the needs of children with speech, language and social communication needs. In this role you will be working closely with the Early Years Inclusion Advisory Service to provide support for children within the early years and foundation stage with SEND related to communication and interaction. Our core principle is that the child and their family are at the centre of our work. Job Purpose:

• Support EY settings to embed whole setting approaches to inclusive educational practice for Communication and Interaction
• Support settings in the identification and assessment of learners with speech and language and social communication needs, and contribute to planning of Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
• Promote the participation of children and young people and their parents and carers
• To work with Speech, Language and Communication colleagues and the LA Early Years Inclusion Advisory Service to deliver the agreed service to settings using the speech and language audit tool to support the settings to identify actions for improvement
• To assist in identifying the level of support following a request for help from a setting.
• To provide specialist teaching and advice for children with speech / language / social communication needs across the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) using the PCC Graduated Approach to Inclusion
• To provide early intervention to enhance Early Years (EY) development and social inclusion
• To promote inclusive practice through modelling of effective strategies and provision
The post holder is engaged as a teacher and, as such, shall carry out the professional duties of a school teacher as circumstances may reasonably require, provided for under the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document Acting in accordance with robust safeguarding guidance

We are looking for someone who is able to work across the early years graduated approach to inclusion as part of a multi-agency response to supporting children's communication, language and social communication needs.,
• a detailed knowledge of how to develop children's speech, language and social communication needs
• experience of working as a SENDCo and/or in an advisory role
• be able to travel between schools / settings as required
• be able to work and integrate with members of the PCC Early Years Inclusion Advisory Service