Job Description

Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist - Help Shape Early Communication for Children

You must submit a cover letter to be considered for this opportunity.*

Twinkleboost CIC is a multi-award-winning charity with a bold mission: to ensure all children start school with the communication skills they need to thrive. We deliver engaging, sensory-based parent-and-child classes, with a strong focus on supporting families from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with children with SEND.

We're looking for an innovative, confident freelance Speech and Language Therapist to join our team from September 2025. You'll have the flexibility to work around school hours while making a meaningful impact through creative projects, session delivery, and professional development support.

Twinkleboost CIC empowers new parents with key language strategies so their children can have better outcomes in life. We provide support to all families but focus on those living in disadvantaged areas or families of children with SEND. We are an innovative organisation, delivering fun sensory based sessions, outdoor communication sessions and online training and support designed to create social change.

We are looking for a confident, reliable, committed and motivated freelance Speech and Language Therapist who can work on their own initiative. You will be a confident and capable practitioner with a passion for supporting children in the early years and you will be comfortable with innovative ways of sharing your skills,

For part of the role, you would be based from home, travelling to community venues, children's centres and occasionally schools and nurseries to deliver parent and child classes for new parents and their children and multi-sensory classes for children with learning disabilities.

For part of the role, you would be working independently to write training programmes for yourself and others to film, and to create programmes for children with early language delay, leading clinical supervision of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants, working with our CEO to develop programmes and training that supports the growth and development of Twinkleboost.

We pride ourselves on being a flexible and family friendly organisation. Delivery of Twinkleboost sessions takes place between 9.30 and 2.30 term-time, so parents can make the school drop offs and pick ups if needed. Development, admin work and Social Media can be done from home whenever is best for you.

We pride ourselves on being an innovative organisation. You must be familiar with technology. You will receive training from our team as well as training from a Clinical Psychologist in Perinatal Mental Health.

Work Details

We currently have projects available to start in September 2025, with initial online training available.

We have work available in Wythenshawe, Bury and other locations across Manchester. We have 2, 3 or 4 days of delivery work available each week with 1 day of development, creation and supervision each week.

There are optional opportunities for some work during school holidays.

Daily rate: 170-220 depending on the number of sessions delivered per day and role responsibilities.

Delivery of Sessions and Supporting Parents

Delivering fun, engaging classes to babies and young children in community settings, nurseries and schools. Delivering integrated Speech and Language training to parents, nursery or school staff
Providing summaries of sessions with photos each week
Using technology to organise your work
Managing relationships with nursery, school and staff at community venues
Supporting, co-ordinating and training volunteers
Collecting and organising resources
Setting up and packing away neatly
Collecting data on Social Impact on a regular basis
Sending follow up emails to parents/nursery workers from home
Completing attendance data and sending to management promptly on a weekly basis
Undertaking online assessments and creating written programmes to be delivered by our team
Undertaking phone calls with parents
Creation

Working with our CEO to create session plans and develop training for free catch-up groups for toddlers in areas of social disadvantage.
Working with our team to write webinars and courses for schools and nurseries, filmed by yourself or our team.
Writing programmes of online support for parents to be filmed by yourself and our team
Creating short, fun, educational content for our social media
Supervision of the team

Creating and adapting programmes
Undertaking Clinical Supervision with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants
Creation of online training for our internal team

Person Specification

Essential

- HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist

- Must have experience working with children

- Confident and outgoing personality

- Willingness to sing confidently in public (doesn't have to be in tune!)

- Must be able to take photographs of your work

- Must be confident and happy to use technology

- Ability to work efficiently from home

- Able to self motivate

- Good time management skills

- Full driving licence and access to a car

- Able to work on a freelance, part time basis

Desirable

-Drama or Performance experience or qualifications

- Experience working with children with SEND

- Previous experience supporting Speech, Language and Communication Development

- Previous work with under 5's

We welcome applications from parents who have taken a career break.

We reserve the right to shortlist and interview as soon as applications come through.

A successful applicant must undergo Safer Recruitment checks including Enhanced DBS and a minimum of 2 professional references.

You must submit a cover letter to be considered for this opportunity.*

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: 170.00-220.00 per day

Expected hours: 16 - 32 per week

Benefits:

Work from home
Application question(s):

Do you have access to your own car?
Licence/Certification:

HCPC (preferred) Driving Licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: SALT2025
Expected start date: 01/09/2025