Team Leader - Children's Speech and Language Therapy - Experts at Hand
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapy Team Leader to join the Expert at Hand model. The role involves providing day-to-day operational management for a team of qualified and unqualified staff. The successful candidate will also undertake clinical work in various settings and liaise with health and education partners. This fixed-term position is for 22.5 hours per week.
Essential criteria
- Evidence of project work that has had a positive impact on service delivery
- Post graduate degree or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to diploma level relevant to area of practice
- Knowledge and Experience
- Evidence of post-registration professional practice
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
Desirable criteria
- Development of expert leadership/management skills
- Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and at all levels of staff/managers in the organisation
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
- Qualifications, Education and Training
- Evidence of project work that has had a positive impact on service delivery
- Post graduate degree or equivalent or be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to diploma level relevant to area of practice
- Knowledge and Experience
- Evidence of post-registration professional practice
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Development of expert leadership/management skills
- Skills, Competencies and Personal Qualities
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills with patients, carers and at all levels of staff/managers in the organisation
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
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.
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Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Team Leader - Children's Speech and Language Therapy - Experts at Hand
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapy Team Leader to work within the Expert at Hand model. The role is for 22.5 hours per week, and support will be provided by a team of colleagues who are committed to delivering timely, high-quality and innovative care.
The successful post holder will provide day-to-day operational management of a team of qualified and unqualified staff within Speech and Language Therapy. They will have the opportunity to undertake clinical work in a range of settings and will liaise with key partners across health and education.
For secondment opportunities, applicants must obtain approval from their substantive line manager prior to applying and evidence of this approval must be provided as part of the application process.
Main duties of the job
- To provide high-quality, evidence-based clinical care in line with the guidance of Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, the Health and Care Professions Council, and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, with the paramount concern being the wellbeing of clients.
- To provide day-to-day operational management of clinical staff working within the Experts at Hand pathway, including supervisi
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