Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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Role summary
Join the North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to develop the Neurodevelopmental Pathway. This leadership role involves participating in complex autism assessments for children and young people, providing accurate differential diagnoses within a multidisciplinary team. The position offers funded qualification in ADOS-2 and ADI-R, structured clinical supervision, and flexible working options. You will contribute to shaping the diagnostic service by creating joint assessment clinics and building relationships with educational settings.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience assessing Children/YP with social communication difficulties
- Experience of managing large caseloads, prioritisation, planning workloads
- Experience of monitoring service outcomes
- Job Specific Requirements
- The ability to travel independently across Bridgewater Trust
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs, including on occasions evenings
- Sponsorship
- Please confirm your Right to Work status (share-codes will be checked where applicable).
- Recognised Speech and Language
- Therapy Degree Qualification or
- Equivalent
- Health Care Professions Council registration.
- RCSLT Licence to Practice
Desirable criteria
- Registered member
- of Royal College of
- Speech and
- Language
- Therapists
- Membership of
- relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
- Evidence of additional training / continuing professional development around specialist area
- AODS training
- ADI training
- Relationships
- If you are related to a director, or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
- Skills and Attributes
- Knowledge of Code of Practice and
- National Curriculum
- Understanding of the principles of clinical
- governance/audit
- Previous experience of NHS IT systems
- Excellent interpersonal skills including
- observation, listening and empathy
- skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Demonstrates good analytical and
- reflection skills
- Well developed concentration skills
- Good presentation skills, both written
- and verbal
- Good organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills
- Good auditory skills and ability to
- transcribe speech phonetically
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team
- Member
- Knowledge of assessment tools
- Demonstrable experience assessing Children/YP with social communication difficulties
- Experience of managing large caseloads, prioritisation, planning workloads
- Experience of monitoring service outcomes
- Job Specific Requirements
- The ability to travel independently across Bridgewater Trust
- The ability to work flexibly in accordance with service needs, including on occasions evenings
- Sponsorship
- Please confirm your Right to Work status (share-codes will be checked where applicable).
- Recognised Speech and Language
- Therapy Degree Qualification or
- Equivalent
- Health Care Professions Council registration.
- RCSLT Licence to Practice
- Registered member
- of Royal College of
- Speech and
- Language
- Therapists
- Membership of
- relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
- Evidence of additional training / continuing professional development around specialist area
- AODS training
- ADI training
- Relationships
- If you are related to a director, or have a relationship with a director or employee of an appointing organisation, please state the relationship.
- Skills and Attributes
- Knowledge of Code of Practice and
- National Curriculum
- Understanding of the principles of clinical
- governance/audit
- Previous experience of NHS IT systems
- Excellent interpersonal skills including
- observation, listening and empathy
- skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Demonstrates good analytical and
- reflection skills
- Well developed concentration skills
- Good presentation skills, both written
- and verbal
- Good organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills
- Good auditory skills and ability to
- transcribe speech phonetically
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team
- Member
- Knowledge of assessment tools
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 12d ago · Closes in 3d
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North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (BCH)
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
Join our North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust community team as a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and utilise your skills to develop our Neurodevelopmental Pathway.
This rewarding leadership role offers you a direct route to
funded, formal qualification in gold-standard assessment tools, including full
certification in both ADOS-2 and ADI-R .
Working alongside a dedicated team of paediatricians, speech
and language therapists, and specialist nurses, you will play a pivotal role in
shaping the future of our diagnostic service by participating in a new project
to create joint assessment clinics with CYPMHS colleagues and build
relationships with colleagues in educational settings.
In this position, you will participate in complex autism
assessments for children and young people, utilising your advanced clinical
reasoning to provide accurate differential diagnoses as part of a team.
We are looking for a practitioner with current HCPC
registration and RCSLT membership who possesses a deep passion for
neuro-affirming practice. You should bring advanced skills in evaluating
complex communication needs, paired with the confidence to make collaborative
clinical decisions within a fa
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