Children's Speech and Language Therapist | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 Pro Rata Per Annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Salford, M6 5FW
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	6 Jul 2026
Closing date:	5 Aug 2026

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Summary

Salford Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit a creative and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our Schools team. This post is suitable for a newly qualified SLT or a SLT with experience. You will be part of a friendly, experienced service who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs.

We have a well-established service providing a ‘balanced system’ across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support. This role will involve delivery of clinical interventions in school settings, and supporting and delivering our training offer to settings, parents/carers, and colleagues. The post holder will receive supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service.

Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

• To deliver universal, targeted and specialist clinical work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy Schools Team.

• To assess and treat own caseload of patients maintaining own records as an autonomous practitioner.

• To deliver training and contribute to the development of the children’s workforce.

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 collaborating closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we are 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.

Learn more about us in ourCandidate Information Pack

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

This advert closes on Monday 13 Jul 2026

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