Job summary
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Active Neuro, the specialist neurorehabilitation division of Active Care Group, is transforming how adults with neurological injuries and complex needs are supported across the UK. We are seeking a Lead Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join our team at Nottingham Brain Injury and Neurological Care Centre, delivering expert, person-centred care for clients with acquired or traumatic brain injury and complex neurological conditions.
As Lead SLT, you will combine expert clinical practice with leadership responsibilities, shaping the delivery of person-centred neurorehabilitation. You'll have the autonomy to influence service development, clinical pathways, and innovative approaches to therapy, helping our clients achieve meaningful, long-term goals, from communicating with loved ones and enjoying meals safely, to regaining confidence in their voice and identity.
Main duties of the job
Why join Active Neuro as Lead SLT?
Leadership and influence: Take a leading role in developing and guiding the SLT service, mentoring colleagues, and shaping best practice across the centre.
Varied and specialist caseloads: Work with adults with disorders of consciousness, cognitive-communication difficulties, dysphagia, aphasia, progressive neurological conditions, and complex presentations.
Innovative tools and approaches: Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team using advanced rehab technology such as Luna, Exo Motus, and Arm Motus, delivering integrated and creative therapy solutions.
Continuity of care across pathways: Lead the expansion of outpatient services, ensuring person-centred care continues beyond discharge and influencing new service models.
Professional development and CPD: Access tailored CPD opportunities in areas such as dysphagia management, AAC, cognition and communication rehab, tracheostomy competence, neuropsychologically-informed practice, and leadership skills.
Collaborative, cross-divisional working: Engage with case management teams, care-in-the-home services, and SLT colleagues across the Active Neuro network.
Networking and partnerships: Represent the service in partnerships with organisations such as Headway, the Spinal Injuries Association, and other professional forums, influencing the wider neurorehabilitation landscape.
About us
Active Care Group are a pioneering national provider of complex care services, delivering pathways and better outcomes for people. We have a collaborative and holistic approach to care underpinned by proven clinical and therapeutic expertise. We specialise in supporting young people and adults with complex needs to make positive progress and lead happier, more independent lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you are a Speech and Language Therapist ready to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of neurorehabilitation and help clients achieve their goals as part of a pioneering service.
The role:
As our Lead Speech and Language Therapist, you will:
- Deliver highly specialist SLT assessment and intervention for clients with complex physical, cognitive, communication, and behavioural needs following neurological injury or illness.
- Lead the development and delivery of evidence-based therapy programmes, working collaboratively with the wider MDT to achieve the best outcomes for clients.
- Independently plan, deliver, and evaluate communication therapy groups, ensuring practice is innovative and client-centred.
- Uphold and model the highest standards of clinical care, ensuring practice reflects current national guidance and best practice.
- Act as Key Worker where appropriate, driving coordinated goal-setting, therapy planning, and discharge preparation.
- Provide professional leadership, supervision, and mentorship to junior SLTs and therapy assistants, supporting their clinical development in line with ACG policy.
- Take an active role in the induction, education, and training of interdisciplinary team members.
- Ensure compliance with professional codes of practice, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to service development, policy implementation, and quality improvement initiatives within SLT and across the wider therapy service.
- Take responsibility for safeguarding within your practice—ensuring clients are protected from harm, empowered to have a voice, and that their human rights are always upheld.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- Benefits Hub giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
- We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group
Job description
Job responsibilities
If you are a Speech and Language Therapist ready to lead, innovate, and make a lasting impact, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of neurorehabilitation and help clients achieve their goals as part of a pioneering service.
The role:
As our Lead Speech and Language Therapist, you will:
- Deliver highly specialist SLT assessment and intervention for clients with complex physical, cognitive, communication, and behavioural needs following neurological injury or illness.
- Lead the development and delivery of evidence-based therapy programmes, working collaboratively with the wider MDT to achieve the best outcomes for clients.
- Independently plan, deliver, and evaluate communication therapy groups, ensuring practice is innovative and client-centred.
- Uphold and model the highest standards of clinical care, ensuring practice reflects current national guidance and best practice.
- Act as Key Worker where appropriate, driving coordinated goal-setting, therapy planning, and discharge preparation.
- Provide professional leadership, supervision, and mentorship to junior SLTs and therapy assistants, supporting their clinical development in line with ACG policy.
- Take an active role in the induction, education, and training of interdisciplinary team members.
- Ensure compliance with professional codes of practice, governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to service development, policy implementation, and quality improvement initiatives within SLT and across the wider therapy service.
- Take responsibility for safeguarding within your practice—ensuring clients are protected from harm, empowered to have a voice, and that their human rights are always upheld.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Birthday off
- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- Benefits Hub giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A salary sacrifice Aegon 5% matched pension
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
- We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
- ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Clinical competence in dysphagia management and communication disorders following neurological injury or illness
- Significant post-qualification experience within neurorehabilitation or complex care settings
- Proven ability to lead service delivery, including supervising, mentoring, and developing junior SLTs and therapy assistants
- Confidence in specialist assessment, complex case management, and formulation of individualised therapy plans
- Strong interdisciplinary collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide best practice across the MDT
- Commitment to evidence-based, person-centred care and to driving quality improvement and innovation within the service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Clinical competence in dysphagia management and communication disorders following neurological injury or illness
- Significant post-qualification experience within neurorehabilitation or complex care settings
- Proven ability to lead service delivery, including supervising, mentoring, and developing junior SLTs and therapy assistants
- Confidence in specialist assessment, complex case management, and formulation of individualised therapy plans
- Strong interdisciplinary collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and guide best practice across the MDT
- Commitment to evidence-based, person-centred care and to driving quality improvement and innovation within the service
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.
