Job Title: Senior 2 Paediatric SALT
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £64,466.07 to £71,038.46
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 14/06/2026
Job Overview
The Paediatric Senior 2 Speech and Language Therapist is a key member of the children’s Speech and Language Therapy (SALT) service, delivering high-quality, evidence-based assessment and intervention for children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN). The post holder will manage a mixed specialist caseload, including community and neurodevelopmental clients, while also contributing to the delivery of services across the universal, targeted, and specialist tiers.
A central component of the role involves working collaboratively within early years settings, special schools and additional resource provisions. The therapist will support the development of communication-friendly environments, deliver targeted interventions, training for parents and key stakeholders, as well as provide specialist assessment and intervention for children requiring more intensive input.
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, building strong partnerships with families, early years practitioners, education staff, and health colleagues. They will also contribute to service development, training, supervision, and quality improvement initiatives.
Contact Tiffany Newbald, Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Manager @Tiffany Newbald for an informal chat regarding this post
Job Purpose
Deliver Tiered Speech and Language Therapy Services
- Provide a balanced model of care across:
- Developmental language disorder (DLD)
- Speech sound disorders
- Social communication difficulties
- Complex and/or co-occurring needs
- Universal: Supporting communication-rich environments and whole-setting approaches.
- Targeted: Delivering group and short-term interventions for children at risk of SLCN.
- Specialist: Independently assess, diagnose, and manage children with a wide range of speech, language, and communication difficulties, including:
- Ensure that intervention is child-centred, functional, and evidence-based, aligned with best practice and local service framework
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Personal Attributes
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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