Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Oldham; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in Oldham is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to provide care for children with diverse needs. This role involves assessment, developing therapy packages, and working within a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and effective communication skills. Opportunities for flexible working and professional development are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Professional development opportunities

Well-being champion support

Qualifications

• Experience of assessment for a wide range of children's speech, language and communication needs.
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapist.
• Demonstrates good skills in negotiation and managing conflict.

Responsibilities

• Provide a speech and language service to children across the Oldham area.
• Assess, diagnose, and develop speech and language therapy packages of care.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure coordinated care.

Skills

Team player

Negotiation skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent

Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 22 September 2025

We have exciting opportunities due to promotion and funding for Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapists to join our friendly and innovative Speech and Language Therapy Team in Oldham. These are permanent roles.

There are a variety of sessions available in Complex Pre-School, School aged and Mainstream Schools. Successful candidates will work with children who have complex needs including; AAC, Autism, SEMH and other complex presentations. We are therefore looking for individuals who are team players with a passion for meeting the needs of a diverse population.

Within this role you will:

• have opportunities to work with a multilingual population alongside interpreters and bilingual co-workers.
• Have opportunity for professional development as well as informal and formal training opportunities. You will receive regular opportunities for supervision, peer support and be supported to develop your clinical specialism.
• Staff wellbeing is important to us and we have a certified well-being champion within our Team.
• We work in partnership with families, schools and other professionals to provide functional targets and high-quality care for children and families.
• We offer flexible working patterns with opportunities to work full time/part time and remote/face to face/hybrid. Regrettably, we cannot offer a term time only contract for this role.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• Enthusiastically provide aspeech and language service to children across the Oldham area
• Assess, diagnose, develop, and implement speech and language therapy packages of care.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure a co-ordinated care plan, based on best practice/evidence base.
• Organise and manage a speech and language caseload with support from their line manager, alongside opportunities to shadow colleagues and attend specific pathway meetings.
• Work with children and young people with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs includingincluding; DLD, AAC, Autism, SEMH and other complex presentations.
• Demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Provideclinical advice to others, including parents/carers, school staff and other professionals regarding the management and care of children with communication difficulties.
• Work alongside education, local authority and early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
• Build skills in the wider workforce which will have positive intervention outcomes.

About us

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.

Job 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

clinical

• Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
• Qualified and registered speech and language therapist
• Implementation of evidence-based interventions
• Experience of assessment for a wide range of children\'s speech, language and communication needs
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
• Experience of writing and delivering training packages
• Experience of supporting/leading other members of staff and students
• Relevant experience of managing caseload independently
• Demonstrates good skills in negotiation and managing conflict
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapist
• Relevant Band 6 experience

communication

• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of development and/or delivery of training packages
• Experience of working closely with families and education settings
• Production and sharing of personalised care plans
• Working with range of services in an MDT context
• Experience of working within a team
• Experience of conflict resolution
• Ability to work flexibly in different contexts, including IT systems.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata