Lead for Service Delivery and SaLT Trainee Programme

This is an exciting time for our charity! Our new strategy focuses on growth and long-term sustainability, with ambitious plans to extend our reach and impact nationally and to expand and diversify our services. Our long-term ambition for the future is a transformed landscape of multi-disciplinary therapeutic support in schools, with UP acknowledged and recognised as a thought-leader, innovator, preferred collaborator and convener. The children we typically support are those with mild to moderate social communication needs. These are the children that don’t meet the criteria for community paediatric and CAMHS services and are often at significant risk of developing mental health and behavioural difficulties later on in life. We also offer EHCP work for more complex cases. Alongside your school-based clinical and practice educator work across the rest of the week, you will dedicate the equivalent of two days per week to flexibly: Oversee the day-to-day operational delivery of a high-quality SaLT service across our partner schools, ensuring services are delivered effectively, in line with school contracts, and responsive to the needs of each setting (supported by UP Hub Managers). Liaise with universities and coordinate trainee placement cycles (typically 2-3 per year) that run efficiently, compliantly and to a consistently excellent standard. Trainees are one of UP’s key audiences, and we are committed to providing robust, structured, supportive and developmental placement experiences for the leading practitioners of the future. You will provide high-quality supervision, modelling opportunities, competency assessment and structured guidance to NQPs throughout their first year of practice. This role is ideal for a SaLT who enjoys working flexibly and innovatively, combining excellent clinical practice, service coordination, and developing the next generation of SaLTs. You will be motivated by delivering high-quality support for children and contributing directly to our strategic ambitions through your work.