Speech and Language Therapist Team Lead

Speech & Language Therapist Team Lead

• Liverpool & surrounding area
• 37.5 hours/week | 41 weeks (term time)
• £48,022 FTE (pro-rated to term time)
• Permanent

Lead change. Shape services. Transform lives.

Are you an experienced Speech & Language Therapist ready to step into leadership or deepen your impact as a clinical specialist? At Together Trust, you’ll lead high-quality therapy services within specialist SEN school settings, supporting children and young people with complex needs to thrive.

You’ll be part of a collaborative multi-disciplinary Clinical Service working alongside Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, and Positive Behaviour Support Practitioners. This is a role where your clinical expertise, leadership skills, and passion for inclusive practice genuinely shape outcomes.

Our mission is simple: champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support and stand beside them every step of the way.

What you’ll be doing:

Lead and manage a specialist Speech & Language Therapy caseload.
Deliver evidence-based assessment, intervention and therapy programmes.
Provide training, guidance and consultation to school staff, families and carers.
Supervise and develop junior colleagues within a supportive team culture.
Lead a clinical specialism (e.g. AAC, Autism, SEMH, Dysfluency) and influence service development.
Ensure best practice, safeguarding and professional standards across services.

What you’ll bring:

Degree in Speech & Language Therapy with HCPC registration.
Membership of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
Significant post-qualification experience, ideally with Autism and complex needs.
Experience supervising others and contributing to service development.
Strong communication skills and confidence working autonomously and collaboratively.
Knowledge of EHCP processes and outcome measurement.

Why join Together Trust?

• 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

You’ll be joining a team that learns together, supports each other, and is committed to improving lives every single day.

Curious about the role? Watch our Speech & Language Therapy careers video:
https://youtu.be/P9SsSjd5hNo

To apply, follow the link - https://workforus.togethertrust.org.uk/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=340

Safeguarding & Inclusion:

Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support. This role requires an Enhanced DBS check and involves 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.