Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Together Trust and work in special school settings, supporting pupils with complex learning needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities. You will collaborate with teaching and support staff to implement universal communication strategies, ensuring a shared responsibility for students' communication needs throughout the school day.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you will manage a clinical caseload, working with teachers, class teams, and the wider multidisciplinary team. You will liaise with parents, families, and carers, advising on speech, language, and communication development, and provide clinical supervision to junior Speech and Language Therapist colleagues. You will also develop assessment reports and intervention plans for individual pupils, ensure clinical practice is up-to-date and evidence based, and participate in education/training opportunities, appraise research articles, and utilise audit and research in daily practice.

About us

Together Trust is a charity that champions the rights, needs and ambitions of the people they support. They stand by them and work together for change, making a difference in the lives of those with disabilities, autism, and complex needs. The charity provides a range of services, including special education, residential care, and community support.

Job responsibilities

Package Description:

Join Us and Make a Difference!

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.

Exciting Opportunity: Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Maternity Cover)

• Duration: 12 months
• Working Pattern: 30 hours over 41 weeks per year (Term Time)
• Salary: £30,241.60 pro-rated (Full-time equivalent: £41,490)
• Location: Stockport

Role Overview: You will work in special school settings, supporting pupils with complex learning needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities. Collaborate with teaching and support staff to implement universal communication strategies, ensuring a shared responsibility for students' communication needs throughout the school day.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a clinical caseload, working with teachers, class teams, and the wider MDT.
• Liaise with parents, families, and carers, advising on speech, language, and communication development.
• Provide clinical supervision to junior Speech and Language Therapist colleagues.
• Develop assessment reports and intervention plans for individual pupils.
• Ensure clinical practice is up-to-date and evidence based.
• Participate in education/training opportunities, appraise research articles, and utilise audit and research in daily practice.
• Maintain a personal CPD portfolio to meet Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) & Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration requirements.

About You:

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Evidence of recent professional development.
• Current registration with RCSLT and HCPC.
• Experience using standardised assessments.
• Experience in special educational settings.
• Experience working with young people and adults with complex needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities.
• Knowledge of relevant Speech & Language Therapy assessments and outcome measures.
• Understanding of safeguarding requirements and helping young people with communication difficulties stay safe.
• Knowledge of clinical governance.
• Commitment to equality and diversity.

Why Join Us? 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.

Benefits

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

Ready to make a difference? Apply now and be part of our mission!

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You will need a degree in Speech and Language Therapy, evidence of recent professional development, current registration with the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and experience using standardised assessments and working in special educational settings with young people and adults with complex needs, including autism and profound multiple learning disabilities.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.