Overview
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.
Responsibilities
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.
Information
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 IC S’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 IC S 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nuri Rahman Job title: Children & Young People Therapies Service Lead Email address: Nuri.Rahman@nhs.net
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