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Join Us as a Speech & Language Therapist Team Lead
Location: Liverpool & surrounding area | Hours: 37.5 hrs/week over 41 weeks (term time) | Salary: £48,022 FTE (pro-rated to term time) | Contract: Permanent
Are you an experienced Speech & Language Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? Together Trust is looking for a motivated and skilled Team Lead to deliver high-quality therapy services primarily within SEN school settings.
As a key member of our multi-disciplinary Clinical Service team, you will work alongside Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners, and more, providing expert therapy, consultancy, training, and support to children, families, and staff.
Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other. Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.
What youll do:
Manage a complex caseload of students, including those with specialist needs.
Provide evidence-based assessments, interventions, and therapy programs.
Offer guidance, training, and support to school staff, families, and carers.
Supervise and develop junior colleagues, fostering a collaborative and professional team culture.
Lead a clinical area of specialism, e.g., AAC, Autism, SEMH, or Dysfluency, contributing to service development and policy.
Ensure services meet professional, legal, and safeguarding standards.
What were looking for:
Degree in Speech & Language Therapy and current HCPC registration.
Membership of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
Significant post-qualification experience, ideally with young people with complex needs and Autism.
Experience in service development, training delivery, and clinical supervision.
Strong communication skills and ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Knowledge of education provision, EHCP processes, and outcome measurement tools.
Benefits :
- Generous pension schemeand 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 enhancedmaternity, 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 Wellbeingacross 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
Alongside an incredible team of like-minded peers, youll be working behind-the-scenes to support our staff, volunteers, families, and supporters. You will be helping our work happen across the charity; enabling us to care for and champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support.
Curious about us? Watch our quick career video as a Speech & Language Therapist:
https://youtu.be/P9SsSjd5hNo
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.
