Lead Speech & Language Therapist
Ascendancy Partnership Trust, Maidenhead, SL6 3EQ40 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Date listed
18 February 2026
Job details
Job role
- Other leadership roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time (Can be done as a job share): Full time, part-time or job share considered. 37 hours a week is full time. Flexible on number of days.
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £50,008 to £57,888 (band 7- 8a) per annum full-time, depending on experience
What skills and experience we're looking for
Are you ready to be part of something new and impactful? - We have an exciting opportunity in our new Therapies Hub.
This is a rare opportunity to use your expertise to make a real difference in a SEND Trust, to be part of a growing service from inception whilst enhancing your own professional development.
At Ascendancy Partnership Trust, our mission is to provide the best possible education and therapeutic support for children and young people with additional complex needs both in special and mainstream schools.
As a newly developing therapies hub, we aim to provide high-quality, student-centred therapeutic services that are seamlessly integrated into everyday school life and curriculum.
As our Lead Speech and Language Therapist, you will work alongside senior leaders and teachers with expertise in learning difficulties, autism and SEMH to create an optimum learning environment in a specialist education Trust. You will use your skills to lead and implement the development of the SLT service across the Trust.
Reporting to the Head of the Therapy Hub, you will operationally plan and deliver the Speech and Language Therapy service, providing support to our teaching staff as well as lead on providing clinical supervision for assistants and therapists across the trust as our team expands.
Along with your degree level professional qualification and HCPC registration, you will use your leadership experience to work collaboratively to help deliver integrated therapeutic support in Trust schools as part of an outstanding joined-up service.
This is not just another SLT job; it’s your chance to shape the future:
New Hub. New Role. Big Impact!
What the school offers its staff
- Local authority pension and life assurance scheme
- 29 days holiday a year plus bank holidays off
- Flexible working hours
- A range of flexible benefits
- Blue Light Card
- Free onsite parking
- On site café
- Family-friendly policies
- Clinical supervision
- Wellbeing support
- Opportunity to work with a team of other therapists working across our schools
- Continuous
professional development and learning opportunities
Flexible working opportunities
Further information about the job
Please email careers@aptmat.co.uk for further information
For an informal chat about the role or to arrange a visit, please contact Miriam Gulliford, Head of Therapy Hub, on 01628 562233. We are looking to fill multiple qualified Therapist posts, if this one isn’t right for you but you are interested in joining our new service, please give Miriam a call to discuss.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community.
The Ascendancy Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening and safer recruitment checks appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the DBS.This position is exempt from the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK.
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This job requires you to download an application form, you will be able to upload the application once complete.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
Additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Ascendancy Partnership Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- careers@aptmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 01628 562233
Ascendancy Partnership Trust is a multi-academy trust with deep community roots across the Berkshire area, composed of a family of SEN schools all specialising in learning difficulties.
Arranging a visit to Ascendancy Partnership Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email careers@aptmat.co.uk.
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