Speech and Language Therapist Lead Full Time

Ambitious About Autism

Do you have the drive, energy and 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.

Ambitious About Autism has an exciting opportunity for a Speech and Language Lead, who shares our vision. As our Speech and Language Lead, you will lead and oversee a professional and effective team of Speech and Language Therapists to provide quality speech and language therapy to our learners.

You will get to work across all Ambitious About Autism’s education settings, evaluating and delivering an excellent and responsive speech and language therapy service.

With direct line management across multiple sites and working with a variety of stakeholders, you will motivate and support team members to work positively and collaboratively, ensuring the best possible outcome for students.

An opportunity to work with a Trans-Disciplinary Team, you will support the Head of Integrated Services to review and develop the team’s approach to meet the needs of students.

As a specialist you will also provide high-quality speech and language therapy advice to support others and enable Education, Health and Care Plans to be implemented and evidence positive outcomes in line with our Ambitious Approach.

A position with a range of responsibility, this is an excellent opportunity to lead and have a meaningful impact with our learners! We are looking for an NHS equivalent of a band 7/8 but will also be able to support someone that might need to be upskilled for this position.

The successful candidate will have:

• Evidence of holding a BSc in Speech and Language Therapy and a HCPC registration.
• Confidence in applying speech and language therapy with children or young people who have learning disabilities or neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Proven experience of working with trans-disciplinary teams and contributing to trans-disciplinary assessment, intervention and reviewing.
• Experience of line managing others or a team.
• Ability to contribute to, and evaluate, the training and development of teachers, parents and other professionals.
• Be able to oversee the deployment of speech and language therapists across the education settings to achieve effective delivery of speech and language therapy.

In return, we offer excellent benefits including flexible working, very generous holiday allowances, access to professional development, membership fees paid 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

Please note that the role may close before the advertised deadline.

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.