Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Together Trust is a charity that champions the rights, needs and ambitions of the people they support. They work across the North West of England, providing a range of services including education, residential care, fostering, and community support.

Permanent | 37.5 hours per week (41 weeks per year term time). Salary: £41,490 FTE (pro-rated to £37,802 based on working weeks).

Location:

Liverpool, Southport and surrounding areas.

We are looking for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Therapy Team at Together Trust, delivering high-quality, evidence-based support primarily within mainstream school settings. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, autonomous practitioner who enjoys combining direct clinical work, consultancy, and training, while contributing to the development of a progressive, multidisciplinary service.

Youll be an integral part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, working alongside Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Advisory Teachers, PBS practitioners, Sleep Practitioners and others. Your role will focus on:

• Delivering specialist speech and language therapy at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels
• Supporting pupils with complex communication needs, including learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Conditions
• Providing consultation, advice and training to school staff, families and carers
• Advising on complex cases and supporting the development of junior colleagues
• Contributing to service development, audit and clinical governance

Youll work flexibly in line with Service Level Agreements and play a key role in ensuring interventions are impactful, evidence-based and aligned with professional standards (RCSLT and HCPC).

Youll be a confident, compassionate and skilled Speech and Language Therapist who can work independently while collaborating effectively with others.

Youll need:

• A degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• HCPC registration and RCSLT membership
• Significant post-qualification experience
• Experience working with children, young people or adults with complex needs
• Strong assessment, intervention and outcome-measurement skills
• Experience of multidisciplinary working and providing training
• Excellent communication and organisational skills

Desirable experience includes:

• Working in specialist or educational settings
• Clinical supervision and service development
• Specialist training (e.g. AAC, dysphagia, mental health)

• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit
  , up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
• Proud to be a real living wage employer
• Refer a friend scheme
  , be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities
  , including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience. If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

This description is not exhaustive and the role may change with the needs of the service.