Senior Speech and Language Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Skelmersdale; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is looking for an enthusiastic speech and language therapist to join their team in Skelmersdale, UK. The role involves providing high-quality therapy to children with speech and communication difficulties in various settings. Responsibilities include managing a specialist caseload, supervising junior therapists, and creating individualized treatment plans. The position encourages flexible working arrangements to promote a healthy work-life balance. Applications close on September 24, 2025.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Qualified to provide assessments, diagnoses, and individualized treatment plans.
• Experience working with complex needs in clinical settings.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision and training for junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Manage a specialist caseload of children with communication needs.
• Provide clinical supervision and participate in education for students.
• Establish and implement individualized management and treatment plans.

Skills

Experience with children with speech, language and communication needs

Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams

Clinical supervision skills

Education

Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Overview

A new opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced speech and language therapist to join our multidisciplinary team in West Lancashire to provide a high quality service to children with speech, language and communication difficulties across the locality.

The role will include work within clinics, mainstream and special schools as well as working with children with complex needs within the community setting; experience of working with this cohort and within these settings is essential.

Responsibilities

• be responsible for all aspects of the management of an identified specialist caseload of children with speech, language and communication needs, attending special school provision and other educational settings. Including assessment, diagnosis, intervention, training for parents/carers and professionals, contribution to multidisciplinary team working, provision of EHCPs and creating individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a range of evidence based treatment skills
• Provide clinical supervision for junior speech and language therapists and / or assistants
• Participate in the clinical education of speech and language therapy students
• The successful applicants will be able to work closely with experienced Specialist Speech and Language Therapy colleagues in a supportive environment.
• To work as part of children’s integrated therapy team providing a speech & language therapy service for children referred for assessment and intervention.
• To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
• To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
• To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.
• To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector organizations, and parents/carers.
• To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
• To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
• To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
• To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.

About the Service

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Working Arrangements

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

How to Apply

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025