Advanced Specialist SALT EAH Coordinator: Sponsorship Available

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to make a wider impact? We are looking for an experienced therapist who enjoys collaborating, problem solving and who wants to make a difference.

You will be working with our partners to help shape and coordinate the delivery of our new Experts at Hand service, bringing together specialist therapy expertise to support children, young people and education settings in new ways.

Main duties of the job

To independently assess and manage the speech language and communication needs of school age children in mainstream schools, clinics and their homes as required.In conjunction with the team lead coordinate therapists and Assistants working within the Experts at Hand model

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Health Professionals Council Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development since qualification, including successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master’s Degree level.
• Trained in Makaton Signing Vocabulary
• Trained in SCERT
• Trained in Intensive Interaction
• Trained in Colourful Semantics
• Trained in SULP or COGS or similar
• Trained in Derbyshire Language Programme or similar.
• Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups.

Desirable

• MSc in Human Communication or equivalent
• Trained in personnel support functions e.g. recruitment, appraisal etc.
• Trained in leadership skills

Experience

Essential

• Significant relevant experience post registration including collaborative practice working in Schools.
• Demonstrate knowledge and expertise in working with school age client group.
• Experience of working with specialised clinical groups e.g. Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, Cleft palate, Hearing Impairment, other complex medical conditions and syndromes, in a mainstream setting
• Experience of giving and receiving clinical supervision.
• Experience of developing and using prioritisation systems.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working.
• Experience in developing and delivering training.
• Experience of leadership and supervising less experience staff

Desirable

• Experience in providing second opinions.

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate well-established knowledge of a range of specific formal and informal assessment tools relevant to the client group.
• Demonstrate highly developed skills in the analysis of receptive, expressive and pragmatic language skills, motor skills, memory, fluency, intelligibility, functional communication, psychosocial development, and eating and drinking difficulties.
• Demonstrate highly development auditory discrimination skills, in order to carry out phonetic transcription and analysis.
• Demonstrate an ability to analyse and interpret the complex information from assessment in light of the client’s other strengths and needs, the context and the environmental demands in order to generate viable options for management
• Demonstrate knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions related to the client group
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills to apply a range of AAC (Augmentative, Alternative Communication) systems and devices.
• Demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of national policies, procedures, legislation and frameworks relevant to this client group.
• Demonstrate excellent presentation skills, verbal, written and audio-visual, including computer generated materials e.g. Power Point.
• Demonstrate well developed communication skills and an ability to match communication style and content to the needs of the situation.
• Demonstrate ability to support others using a coaching approach staff
• Demonstrate the attributes needed for team and collaborative working.
• Demonstrate good time management and organisational skills.
• Demonstrate effective prioritisation skills.
• Demonstrate highly developed negotiation and problem solving skills
• Demonstrate ability to manage conflict / dissipate anger
• Demonstrate ability to motivate others.
• Demonstrate ability to assume leadership responsibilities.
• Demonstrate ability to translate ideas into actions and to lead on small project work.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal abilities – observation, listening, diplomacy, sensitivity and empathy.
• Demonstrate problem solving and negotiation abilities taking account of others perspectives and expectations.
• Demonstrate an ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary group
• Demonstrate skills to lead and organise training for other professionals.
• Demonstrate a realistic sense of own limitations and professional development needs.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate children with communication and / or eating and drinking difficulties.
• Able to work flexibly and adaptably
• Able to work autonomously / independently.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Demonstrate flexibility, self-motivation and a good sense of humour.

Other job requirements

Essential

• Car driver and current licence holder
• DBS check
• Occupational Health clearance
• Able to adapt to a range of physical environments and demands.

Closing Date: 18 October 2026