Lead Speech and Language Therapist (Operations)

Do you have the ambition to make a difference to autistic children and young adults? 

At Ambitious about Autism, we stand with autistic children and young people, champion their rights and create opportunities. This is a great time to join team Ambitious, as we continue to progress our innovative and exciting plans laid out in our Time for Ambition strategy.

We an exciting opportunity for a Lead Speech and Language Therapist, who shares our vision. As the charity's Lead, you will be passionate about improving the quality of life for autistic children and young people with additional learning disabilities. You will be a professional lead to the Speech and Language Therapist Team, overseeing the quality of therapy within Ambitious About Autism's education settings, ensuring the teams make a real difference to outcomes for Children and Young People. You will provide line management and supervision to the Senior Speech and Language Therapist and main grade Speech and Language Therapist as required

You will work within a Trans-Disciplinary Team, support the Head of Integrated Services to review and develop the team's approach to meet the needs of students. You will also across all Ambitious About Autism's education settings, evaluating and delivering an excellent and responsive speech and language therapy service. This role can be based at our Ambitious Collage setting in West London or out TreeHouse School setting in North London.

The successful candidate will have:

• Strong Experience of effective line leadership and leading change.
• Experience of using clinical reasoning skills and setting appropriate goals in complex cases
• Effectively applies specialist speech and language therapy skills and knowledge with children and /or young people who have autism and other co-occurring conditions to improve outcomes
• Applies the latest research evidence and evaluative thinking to practice
• Manages a complex caseload and prioritises and delegates effectively.

Please see the full recruitment pack on the link below. 

In return, we offer excellent benefits including flexible and hybrid working, very generous holiday allowances, access to professional development, membership fees paid, welcome bonus and more.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual who would like to work for a forward-thinking, open and honest organisation and make a real impact to young people we work with

If you would like more information about the role or would like an informal, confidential discussion please contact Stephen Vickers at svickers@ambitiousaboutautism.org.uk 020 8815 5439 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity and we warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification.

Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.