Children\'s Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Schools Team)

Main area Speech and Language Therapy Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Term time hours

19.61 hours per week (22.5hrs/week during 39 week school year) Job ref 236-SCO-P413-25

Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Salford Royal Hospital Town Salford Salary £38,682 – £46,580 Pro Rata Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 10/09/2025 23:59

Children\’s Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Schools Team)

Band 6

Job overview

We are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and experience Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our forward-thinking 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. These SLT roles will be within our Jointly Commissioned and SALT Enhanced Service and will involve delivery of clinical interventions in schools and/or specialist resource provisions, delivery and development of our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues and supervision/support of staff.

Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Main duties of the job

To deliver specialist clinical work within schools and/or specialist resource provisions as part of a Speech and Language Therapy 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 provide peer support to and receive peer support from other Speech and Language colleagues.

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.

To support the development and delivery of training packages to parents/carers and teaching staff.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

Person specification

Registration

• HCPC registration – license to practice
• Member of RCSLT

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
• Ability to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrate excellent specialist knowledge in a wide range of paediatric communication disorders which is underpinned by current evidence based practice.
• Relevant post-graduate experience working in schools.
• Good planning organisational, caseload management and prioritisation skills.
• Knowledge and demonstrated use of up to date assessment tools relevant to client group
• Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Ability and commitment to deliver training packages
• Basic IT skills
• Good presentation skills both written and verbal
• Experience of working with children and young people with complex communication and/or social, emotional and mental health needs.
• Have attended Talking Mats Training (Foundation Stage)

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Negotiation and problem solving skills
• Good analytical and reflection skills
• Ability to be a good team member and proactive in supporting senior staff and service delivery
• Knowledge of national policies procedures and clinical guidance
• Awareness of principles of clinical governance
• Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within their role.

The NCA is proud to serve a diverse population and is committed to delivering inclusive, accessible care. We value individuality and aim to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Applications are welcomed from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and beliefs.

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.

Vacancies may close early if sufficient applications are received, or if an internal redeployee has been identified.

For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.

The NCA does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies. Read more about this here .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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 Therapy Service Lead Email address fiona.taylor@nca.nhs.uk Telephone number 07725 220 344 Additional information

www.speakupsalford.nhs.uk

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