Employer Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site 8th Floor City Approach Town Salford Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/07/2025
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Team Lead
Band 7
Job overview
A rare opportunity has arisen in Salford for a Highly Specialist Lead Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and supportive Adult Learning Disabilities Team. If you’re passionate about making a real difference in the lives of adults with learning disabilities, and are ready to lead, inspire, and grow, this could be the perfect job for you!
In this role, you’ll take the clinical lead, delivering expert therapeutic assessment, diagnosis and treatment for clients with complex needs, including communication and swallowing difficulties, across various community settings. You’ll also guide junior staff, influence service development, and benefit from access to award-winning leadership training, ongoing peer support, and supervision.
Whether you're an experienced Band 6 ready for the next step or a Band 7 looking to specialise further, your growth is supported here. Job share and secondment enquiries welcome!
Save the Date: Interviews will take place on Monday 21st July 2025
Main duties of the job
To lead the SLT service within the Learning Disabilities Health Professionals team.
* To provide as part of the multidisciplinary team highly specialist therapeutic assessment, diagnosis and treatment of Adults with Learning Disabilities who have highly complex and/or chronic presentation in a range of community locations. This includes working with clients with communication and swallowing difficulties
· To assess and treat own caseload of clients maintaining own records as an autonomous practitioner
· To supervise SLT and Total Communication colleagues as part of the team support structure.
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
Qualifications
* A degree in Speech and Language Therapy
* Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses and CPD
Knowledge
* Experience of working with Adults with Learning Disabilities.
* Experience devising and delivering training.
* To demonstrate specialist knowledge in clinical fields underpinned by current evidence-based practice (e.g. learning disabilities, dysphagia)
* Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessments and therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group.
Skills
* Good planning and organisational skills and caseload management
* Good presentation skills, both written and verbal.
* Good planning and organisational skills and caseload management
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.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [emailprotected]
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 Helen Kinder Job title Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Email address [emailprotected] Telephone number 07523930467 Additional information
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