Lead Speech and Language Therapist

Active Care Group Recruitment; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Active Learning Hub access

Active Reward App discounts

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Aegon 5% matched pension

Medicash Health Plan access

Active Awards programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Birmingham is seeking a Lead Speech and Language Therapist to enhance neurorehabilitation services. The role involves delivering specialized assessments, leading therapy development, and providing mentorship to junior staff. Candidates must be HCPC registered with experience in neurorehabilitation and dysphagia management. This is an opportunity to impact patient care and drive service innovation.

Qualifications

• HCPC registered with experience in neurorehabilitation.
• Ability to supervise and mentor junior SLTs.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Experience with dysphagia assessment and management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assessment and intervention for patients with communication difficulties.
• Lead and develop therapy programmes in collaboration with the MDT.
• Ensure compliance with professional codes and standards.
• Drive service development and quality improvement.
• Act as Key Worker where appropriate to drive joined-up goal-setting and discharge planning.
• Provide professional leadership, supervision and mentorship to junior SLTs and assistants.
• Contribute to induction, education and training of interdisciplinary team members.
• Ensure compliance with professional codes of practice and governance.
• Support service development and quality improvement within SLT and wider therapy.
• Safeguarding responsibilities within practice; protect vulnerable individuals.

Skills

HCPC registration

Neurorehabilitation experience

Dysphagia assessment

Supervision and mentorship

Leadership

Organizational skills

Education

HCPC registration

Neurorehabilitation experience

Dysphagia assessment & management

Job description

Come and join one of the UK’s largest independent providers in neuro and mental healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

At Active Neuro, we’re transforming neurorehabilitation in the UK — and we’re looking for an exceptional Band 7 Lead Speech and Language Therapist to help drive that change.

Based at Hunters Moor in Birmingham, you’ll take a leading role in a collaborative, highly specialist team dedicated to helping people rebuild their communication, swallowing, and cognitive-communication skills following brain injury or neurological illness.

This is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to lead, influence and innovate in an environment where every interaction matters, your expertise shapes service delivery, and you directly impact patient outcomes.

About Active Neuro

At Active Neuro, we bring together:

• Specialist clinical expertise across a highly skilled multidisciplinary team

• Cutting-edge rehabilitation technology that supports data-driven therapy

• A 24/7 therapeutic approach, ensuring every moment supports recovery

Our patients include individuals with acquired and traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and complex neurological conditions. We deliver seamless rehabilitation journeys — from pre-admission planning to inpatient treatment, through to supported community reintegration.

As Lead SLT, you’ll play a vital part in shaping our SLT service, mentoring colleagues, driving innovation in practice, and ensuring excellence across all areas of care.

We’re raising the standard for rehabilitation outcomes, patient experience, and professional collaboration. Step into a leadership role where your skills will make the biggest difference — apply today.

Please note - this advert will close once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

The role:

As our Lead Speech and Language Therapist, you will:

• Deliver highly specialist SLT assessment and intervention for patients with complex physical, cognitive, communication and behavioural difficulties following neurological injury or illness

• Lead on the development and delivery of evidence-based therapy programmes, working collaboratively with the wider MDT to achieve the best outcomes for patients

• Independently plan, deliver and evaluate communication therapy groups, ensuring practice is innovative and patient-centred

• Uphold and model the highest standards of clinical care, ensuring practice reflects current national guidance and best practice

• Take responsibility as Key Worker where appropriate, driving joined-up goal-setting, therapy planning and discharge coordination

• Provide professional leadership, supervision and mentorship to junior SLTs and assistants, supporting their clinical development in line with ACG policy

• Take an active role in the induction, education and training of interdisciplinary team members

• Ensure compliance with professional codes of practice, governance frameworks and regulatory requirements

• Contribute to service development, policy implementation and quality improvement initiatives within SLT and across the wider therapy service

• Take responsibility for safeguarding within your practice — ensuring people are protected from harm, empowered to have a voice, and that their human rights are always upheld

About you:

For this role, you will need:

• HCPC registration
• Previous experience of working in a neurorehabilitation setting and in dysphagia assessment and management
• The ability to supervise and mentor junior SLTs and assistants
• Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills
  
• Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group