Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist


Company:	Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£39,959 - £56,515 Pro Rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Rochdale, OL10 2DY
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	1 Sept 2026
Closing date:	1 Oct 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

We're advertising an exciting opportunity for aPaediatric Speech and Language Therapist (Band 6 or Band 7 depending on experience)to join our community team on a12-month secondment to cover maternity leave.

We are looking for an innovator who is keen to develop and transform pathways to meet the needs of the changing landscape of Speech and Language Therapy.

The successful candidate will bring specialist knowledge and experience instammeringandselective mutism, supporting the delivery and ongoing development of these pathways as part of our wider paediatric Speech and Language Therapy offer.

• Take your place with us providing highly specialist triage, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

• You will assist in service development and innovation in consultation with managers and other team members.

• You will provide highly specialist support via clinical supervision, shadowing, mentoring and second opinions for the members of the team.

• You will liaise with the Team Lead about any issues in service delivery and develop plans to manage these.

• You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.

• You will lead on service development using your highly specialist knowledge and skills. This will include the development of policies, processes and pathways to enhance quality of patient care, in liaison with the Team Lead.

• You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.

• You will implement, monitor and evaluate new ways of working, including providing audits/ outcome and progress reports on new workstreams.

• You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children’s workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

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.

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers websitehttps://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

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:https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/

This advert closes on Monday 7 Sep 2026

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