Speech and Language Therapist Band 6 in Northallerton

Employer Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Town Northallerton Salary £38,682 – £46,580 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/02/2026 23:59

Speech and Language Therapist Band 6

Band 6

Job overview

To provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy Services to children with speech, language, and communication needs and their families within Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (Harrogate and Rural and Hambledon and Richmondshire areas).

Post holders will be based at Northallerton Child Development Centre with clinics at Thirsk Health Centre.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a collaborative team member of the HDFT Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team within HDFT Specialist Children’s Services (SCS). This includes providing clinical support to Band 5 therapists as required and supervision to a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant as necessary.

1. To independently manage and provide a specialist SLT service for children with speech, language and communication needs within HDFT SCS. The children are aged 0 to 19 years. Caseload management is carried out independently.

2. To allocate clients, design therapy programmes and provide clinical support and supervision to a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant.

3. To establish and maintain the quality of the Paediatric SLT service through working towards best practice and developing clinical governance alongside the Team Lead SLT.

Working for our organisation

At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide ‘outstanding’ care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.

• An inclusive and supportive culture – our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff Networks identify areas for improvement.
• Staff Recognition – as well as regular appraisals, we recognise staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
• Staff Benefits – We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and Person specification or please contact Wendy Brotherton at wendybrotherton@nhs.net

Person specification

• Speech and Language Therapy graduate with membership of HCPC
• Relevant experience at post graduate level of working in school and pre-school settings (mainstream and special schools) and local authority Children Centres.
• Relevant experience of working with children with a range of SLCN.
• Driving licence and access to own transport
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Relevant experience of working with children with Dysphagia.
• Recent Paediatric SLT Training in Clinical Supervision.
• Knowledge and use of S1

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 Wendy Brotherton Job title Team Lead, Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Email address wendybrotherton@nhs.net Telephone number 07770 733187

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