Senior Specialist SLT – School Therapy Lead

The Children’s Trust; Tadworth; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site nursery

Free eye tests

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Time out days for menopause symptoms

Time off for gender reassignment

35–41 days annual leave including bank

Job summary

The Children’s Trust in Tadworth, Surrey, seeks a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join the School Therapy Team. You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based SLT assessments and interventions for children with neurodisabilities across home, school, and community settings.

You will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, liaising with education staff and medical colleagues to ensure integrated, family-centred care and effective follow-up across settings.

Qualifications

• Provide high quality, evidence-based SLT interventions for children and young people.
• Lead SLT service provision in school settings in partnership with MDT and Education services.
• Engage with multidisciplinary teams to support complex needs including tracheostomy considerations.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, evidence based and equitable speech and language therapy interventions for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust.
• Lead the provision of high quality, evidence based speech and language therapy provision for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust School in partnership with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team and Education services.
• Support the Multidisciplinary Team regarding the impact of tracheostomies, on speaking and swallowing following assessment of laryngeal integrity, secretion management and swallow.
• Undertake specialist speech and language therapy assessments of children with highly complex needs through standardised and non-standardised assessments and clinical observations.
• Devise suitable, individual, speech and language therapy plan that fit within the child’s daily routine; coordinate with parents and MDT.
• Be an autonomous practitioner with responsibility for assessment, treatment, and planning for an allocated caseload of children/young people.
• Be a key point of support and advice for the speech and language therapy team and Multidisciplinary team.
• Work closely with all members of the Multidisciplinary team, as well as the child and family, to provide a fully integrated approach to management; may include home/school visits and meetings.
• Liaise with medical staff and attend clinics as required; contribute to referrals and reports as needed.
• Utilise patient reported and standardised outcome measures for each child and complete in a timely manner.
• Assess, evaluate, and recommend discharge/transition plans within MDT framework.

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Interpersonal skills

Autonomous practice

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Degree in Speech & Language Therapy

Job description

The Children’s Trust in Tadworth, Surrey, seeks a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join the School Therapy Team. You will deliver high-quality, evidence-based SLT assessments and interventions for children with neurodisabilities across home, school, and community settings.

You will work autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, liaising with education staff and medical colleagues to ensure integrated, family-centred care and effective follow-up across settings.