Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS health organization is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to join their community team in Rochdale. This role involves providing specialized diagnosis and treatment for children with speech and language needs, driving service innovation, and supporting clinical education. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and leadership skills, a relevant degree, and a commitment to evidence-based practice. The organization values work-life balance and offers a flexible working policy.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Annual leave allowance

Health and wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing specialist triage and treatment for speech and language needs.
• Ability to develop policies and pathways to enhance patient care.
• Experience in clinical supervision and training delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized triage, assessment and diagnosis for children with speech needs.
• Assist in service development and innovation.
• Communicate effectively with families and healthcare staff.
• Lead development of training for the children's workforce.

Skills

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Organizational skills

Education

Relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

We’re advertising an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to integrate our community team.

We are looking for an innovator who is keen to develop and transform pathways to meet the needs of the changing landscape of Speech and Language Therapy.

We offer robust management supervision, regular team meetings, great clinical support and training opportunities. You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills further via our Trust’s Leadership For All programme.

You will educate and enrich student learning experiences as a clinical educator. Evidence‑based practice is embedded and CPD is actively encouraged. We work across education settings, clinics and children’s centres with parents, carers, education staff and other professionals.

We are committed to prioritising work‑life balance and well‑being. The NCA offers a robust Flexible Working policy and S.C.A.R.F, a wrap‑around support programme to look after your physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Please speak to us about how we can accommodate any flexible working requests.

Clink on the link for a short video about working as a Speech and Language Therapist at Northern Care Alliance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTkm_vKeoc

• Take your place with us providing highly specialist triage, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• You will assist in service development and innovation in consultation with managers and other team members.
• You will provide highly specialist support via clinical supervision, shadowing, mentoring and second opinions for the members of the team.
• You will liaise with the Team Lead about any issues in service delivery and develop plans to manage these.
• You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
• You will lead on service development using your highly specialist knowledge and skills. This will include the development of policies, processes and pathways to enhance quality of patient care, in liaison with the Team Lead.
• You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
• You will implement, monitor and evaluate new ways of working, including providing audits / outcome and progress reports on new workstreams.
• You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children’s workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

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.

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

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: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Dec 2025.