Speech and Language Therapist Band 5 - Rehab

CompanyThe Children's Trust

Location

Tadworth, England, United Kingdom

Employment TypeFull-time

Posted At3/12/2026

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Description

Speech and Language Therapist Band 5 - Rehab

£35,763 - £43,466 per annum (dependent upon experience & inclusive of London weighting)

37.5 hours

Tadworth, Surrey

Closing Date: 2nd April 2026 - 23:59

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Speech and Language Therapist to provide high quality, evidence-based speech and language therapy service which promotes participation and functional activity of children and young people.

You will provide speech and language therapy to children and young people accessing The Children’s Trust Neuro rehabilitation services, including assessment and intervention to children and young people with acquired brain injuries, neurodisabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Our service delivery aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe care, function and participation of children and young people accessing home, school, and community life. You will support the delivery of child and family focused, goal led interventions, working in collaboration with education, multi-agency, and multidisciplinary teams.

This role is not open to sponsorship.

Staff benefits include shuttle bus, and more… Read more below.

Role Requirements

Provide high quality, evidence-based speech and language therapy provision for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust Neurorehabilitation and step-down services, in partnership with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team
Undertake speech and language therapy assessments of children through standardised and non-standardised assessments and clinical observations.
Devise individualised, speech and language therapy programmes/strategies that fit within the child’s daily routine, whether to be carried out by parents or members of the Multidisciplinary Team with the support of senior Speech and Language Therapists. These should be monitored, evaluated, and adjusted appropriately according to the needs of the child.

Develop therapy goals, in collaboration with the child and family/carers, as well as the multidisciplinary and education teams, other health professionals and agencies, to facilitate the participation of the child in their life skills.

Facilitate and support discussion around outcomes as part of the child or young person’s intervention plan and support the multidisciplinary and education teams with measuring short-term targets, through using the therapy outcome measurement tools e.g., Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS).

Complete children’s outcomes as part of our NHS England national contract including FIM FAM, Rehabilitation complexity scale, in a timely fashion

Keep appropriate and accurate intervention records, fulfilling legal, professional and all other requirements of The Children’s Trust.

Contribute to child related reports include in a timely manner in line with organisational targets.

Support the delivery of 24-hour rehabilitation helping to embed speech language communication needs across the day

Work closely with all members of the Multidisciplinary Team, as well as the child and family, to provide a fully integrated approach to the overall management of the child.

Provide clinical cover across the service during episodes of staff shortage/heavy workload, in order to ensure effective service delivery.

Work flexibly in terms of hours, including the ability to work an early evening (weekly) and one weekend day, per calendar month.

Contribute to an environment that facilitates participation and wellbeing during mealtimes and support eating drinking and swallowing in accordance with clinical skills. Boundaries. Competencies

Undertake other or additional duties that are within your skills and abilities, as the organisation may reasonably require from time to time.

Interview Date: TBC

If you would like to discuss the role, please contact the Recruitment & Compliance Team, on 01737 365 880 or email: recruitment@thechildrenstrust.org.uk

For more information and for a copy of the candidate briefing pack please click here.

Terms and Conditions

PLEASE NOTE: The Children's Trust Application Form MUST be completed and submitted, for your application to be considered. As part of the shortlisting process, gaps in employment will be examined and further explored during the interview process.

Strictly no agencies, please.

About Us

The Children’s Trust is the UK’s leading charity for children with acquired brain injury, providing expert rehabilitation, education, therapy, and care at our national specialist centre in Tadworth, and to children and their families across the UK, via our Brain Injury Community Service.

Boasting a beautiful 24-acre site in Surrey, we are located just outside of London, close to the M25 (accessible via Junction 8, A217 to Tadworth) and easily accessible via National Rail, by way of: Clapham Junction, Sutton, and Epsom.

Staff Benefits

The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including, Zest; our staff flexible benefits platform, on-site nursery, free eye tests, enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay, time out days for those experiencing menopause symptoms and time off for gender reassignment.

We also offer additional annual leave days for those with long service, with entitlements ranging from 35 to 41 days (including bank holidays) depending on your length of service.

Other benefits include free on-site parking; a staff shuttle service from Epsom and Sutton train stations to Tadworth Court, subsidised cafeteria, on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability), the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable), Teacher’s pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme, and the opportunity to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Rehabilitation of Offenders

Many roles at The Children’s Trust are exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, by virtue of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020) and as such, are subject to an Enhanced DBS check. Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected. The exceptions to this are our retail roles within The Children’s Trust shops, which are subject to Basic DBS checks which will disclose unspent convictions or adult cautions.

Equal Opportunity Employer

To help us achieve our ambition to give children and young people with brain injury and neurodisability the opportunity to live the best life possible, we want to accurately reflect the UK’s diverse population. We want equity, diversity, and inclusion to be at the heart of everything we do, and our people, services, and culture to reflect the diverse needs of all. Through our diversity and inclusion strategy, we have made a commitment to increase the diversity of our charity and create an inclusive culture. We have networks across the organisation working to ensure that these aims are met - including an LGBTQIA2S+ group, Ethnic Diversity Group, and Spark – our broad EDI group. Read more about our EDI work here. We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.

Online Searches

In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.