Senior Speech & Language Therapist - 22.5 Hours Per Week, Term Time

JR United Kingdom; Stockport; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 42,000; Part time

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Senior Speech & Language Therapist - 22.5 Hours Per Week, Term Time, Stockport

Client:

Together Trust

Location:

Stockport, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

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3

Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

Job Description:

About the Company - Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.

About the Role - As a Senior Speech and Language Therapist, you will work in special school settings, supporting pupils with a range of complex learning needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities. The ideal candidate will have experience working in an educational setting and delivering therapy services at universal, targeted, and specialist levels. You will collaborate with teaching and support staff to ensure universal communication strategies are effectively implemented, fostering a shared responsibility for supporting students’ communication needs throughout the school day.

Working Pattern: 22.5 hours worked over 41 weeks per year (Term Time)

Pay range and compensation package - Salary: £22,681.20 pro-rated based on hours and weeks worked. (Full time equivalent salary is £41,490). Location: Stockport. You will be expected to support the ethos of a wider clinical services and the Together Trust.

Responsibilities -

• Manage a clinical case load of students, working in collaboration with teachers, class teams and wider MDT.
• Liaise with parents, families and carers, advising on issues relating to the development of speech, language and other communication skills.
• Provide clinical supervision to more junior Speech and Language Therapy colleagues.
• Provide assessment reports and intervention plans for individual pupils.
• Ensure clinical practice is up to date and based on agreed best clinical and evidence base.
• Participate in relevant education/training opportunities, read and critically appraise research articles in professional journals and utilise audit and research in daily practice.
• Maintain personal CPD portfolio in order to meet RCSLT & HCPC registration requirements.

Qualifications - Degree in speech and language therapy.

Required Skills -

• Evidence of recent professional development.
• Current registration with RCSLT and Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
• Experience of using standardised assessments.
• Experience of working in special educational settings.
• Experience of working with young people and adults with complex needs including Autism and with profound and multiple learning needs.
• Knowledge of relevant Speech and Language Therapy assessment and outcome measures.
• Knowledge of relevant safeguarding requirements and how to help young people with communication difficulties stay safe.
• Knowledge of clinical governance.
• Commitment to equality and diversity.

Annual Leave: 27 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.

Benefits:

• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and free weekly yoga sessions in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home.

Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, you’ll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.