School Age Speech and Language Clinical Care Group Manager | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Ionawr 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £61,631 - £68,623 Pro-rata including Outer HCAs per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Cwmni: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7662762/391-NMUH-7662762 |
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The post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for School Age Speech and Language Therapists across mainstream schools, special education, and specialist resource bases, ensuring high‑quality outcomes for children and young people.
They will manage teams across multiple sites and commissioned contracts, embedding integrated service delivery models agreed with commissioners. Key responsibilities include monitoring performance, activity, and outcomes, and leading service improvement initiatives based on enablement and co‑production principles. Working with Clinical Leads, schools, agencies, CYP, and parent/carer organisations, they will embed a culture of continuous quality improvement, ensuring services remain responsive, sustainable, and value for money.
The role also involves leading transformation projects aligned with local priorities, developing integrated care pathways across therapy and education partners, and strengthening collaboration with the wider Children’s Directorate, Local Authority, voluntary sector, and health partners. They will shape SLT services to meet population needs and commissioning priorities, embedding safeguarding and welfare promotion throughout service delivery, and may represent the service in high‑level meetings with commissioners and senior trust representatives.
This role involves providing strong clinical and operational leadership to ensure safe, effective, and child‑centred services within Speech and Language Therapy and integrated care teams. Responsibilities include maintaining governance and quality standards, safeguarding children and young people, and ensuring services are culturally sensitive, dignified, and responsive to feedback. The post holder leads staff recruitment, supervision, wellbeing initiatives, and professional development, while fostering collaboration, succession planning, and compliance with regulatory frameworks. They drive service development and innovation, manage budgets and resources to meet performance targets, and oversee workforce planning, disciplinary processes, and integrated team working. Additionally, they ensure accurate information management, risk monitoring, and compliance with audits, while promoting research‑based practice and continuous improvement. Overall, the role balances clinical excellence, staff leadership, financial accountability, and strategic service development to deliver high‑quality outcomes for children, young people, and families.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Clinical Responsibilities
Ensure services meet governance, safety, and quality standards.
Collaborate with Clinical Leads to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care.
Provide supervision, appraisal, and support for Speech and Language Therapists.
Champion compliance with HCPC, CQC, and professional guidelines.
Maintain child- and young person-centred, research-based practice.
Responsibility for Children & Young People
Manage day-to-day service delivery for CYP and families.
Safeguard welfare, dignity, and cultural sensitivity.
Monitor satisfaction surveys, feedback, and implement improvements.
Ensure safe use of equipment and adherence to health and safety policies.
Responsibility for Staff
Lead and manage SLT teams, fostering inclusion and wellbeing.
Oversee recruitment, retention, and career development.
Provide mentorship, supervision, and guidance on complex cases.
Promote staff wellbeing, flexible working, and team-building.
Ensure compliance with standards, succession planning, and strategic resource allocation.
Policy & Service Development
Work with Care Group leads to implement service strategies.
Identify opportunities for service innovation and integration.
Ensure responsiveness to complaints and feedback.
Keep services aligned with national/local NHS policies and commissioning requirements.
Financial & Physical Resources
Achieve performance, activity, and financial targets.
Manage budgets, waiting times, KPIs, and resource deployment.
Monitor financial performance, prepare business cases, and support cost improvement programmes.
Leading & Managing
Provide operational leadership for Integrated Health Care Teams.
Ensure safe, compassionate, efficient services within budget.
Oversee workforce planning, recruitment, retention, and disciplinary processes.
Promote trans-disciplinary working and compliance with training requirements.
Information Resources
Monitor risks, patient safety, and maintain risk registers.
Ensure accurate records for performance, audit, and FOI requests.
Share learning from audits and quality metrics across care groups.
Research & Development
Coordinate and monitor clinical audits and mandatory data collection.
Promote research-based practice and attend professional development courses.
Please review the Job Description for more information.
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Feb 2026