Speech & Language Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Main area Speech & Language Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri) Job
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Employer Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Blossom House Town Waterloo Salary £28,392 - £31,157 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/09/2026 23:59

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

• Great flexible working opportunities
• Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

The Alder Hey Community Speech and Language Therapy Service have a vacancy in the Sefton locality for a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant practitioner (SLTAs). There is an expectation to also cover the Liverpool locality if required.

As an SLTA, you will support the children's community speech and language therapists with their work to provide on-going speech, language and communication support and interaction with children and families. This includes working alongside SLTs to deliver workshops and groups, working under supervision in nurseries, schools, patients homes and community clinics to provide support to the parents / carers to empower them, and preparing resources.

If you have an interest and passion to improve the life chances of our children and young people by supporting them and their families to develop their speech, language and communication skills, this is an exciting opportunity to join this vibrant team.

• Work with clients with communication difficulties/complex disabilities and health needs across a range of settings, within the Community Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service.
• Carry out routine interventions as devised by the supervising Speech and Language Therapist.
• Provide on-going input to identified clients, modifying levels of intervention or treatment programmes when appropriate and notifying the Speech and Language Therapist of these changes.
• Access the supervision of a Speech and Language Therapist as required.
• Develop therapy activities to meet defined intervention needs.
• Provide some clinical administrative support to Speech and Language Therapists as required.
• Produce resources to support own clinical work and that of the Speech and Language Therapy team.

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West…