Children's Speech and Language Therapist (Schools & Clinic Team)

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Job description

Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Salford Royal

Town Salford

Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum

Salary period Yearly

Closing 10/04/2025 23:59

Children's Speech and Language Therapist (Schools & Clinic Team)

Band 5

Job overview

Salford Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit a creative and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our schools and clinic team.

You will be part of a friendly, experienced department who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs. We have a well-established service providing a ‘balanced system’ across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support.

This role will involve delivery of clinical interventions in primary, high schools and clinic and supporting and delivering our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues. The post holder will receive supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver universal, targeted and specialist clinical work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy School and Clinic Team.
• To assess and diagnose conditions and to plan and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and treatment and discharge appropriately, using evidence-based practice.
• To work collaboratively with parents, carers and educators and to support children with a range of communication needs.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (will also consider if expecting degree results imminently)
• Evidence of being able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Professional registration

• HCPC registration - license to practice
• RCSLT member

Knowledge, training and experience

• Knowledge and demonstrated use of up-to-date assessment tools relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
• Awareness of the roles of other professionals
• Evidence of relevant experience at an undergraduate/post-graduate level
• Awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within role.
• Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative forms of Communication e.g. signing, symbols, communication aids

Skills and abilities

• Good planning and organisational skills and caseload management including prioritisation skills
• Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
• Basic IT skills

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies and will not be liable for fees for candidates submitted speculatively.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.

For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.

In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Fiona Taylor Job title Speech and Language Therapist Service Lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07725 220 344 Additional information

www.speakupsalford.nhs.uk