HLCP - Higher Level Communication Practitioner
New national initiative!
Become a Higher Level Communication Practitioner (HLCP) and gain national recognition for your role as the teaching assistant or early years practitioner in your setting with specific responsibility for supporting children and young people with SLCN and liaising with colleagues. This new role will involve linking with local SLCN and SaLT services.
This new national award is for teaching assistants and early years practitioners in early years, primary, secondary, and special settings.
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Practitioners
SLCN/SaLT Managers and
Teams
Information for practitioners
Full information about the award, eligibility criteria, pilot programme timeline and costs can be found in the HLCP Programme Information document.
If you are interested in becoming an HLCP, you can:
- Apply for one of only 40 places on the HLCP Pilot Programme (open to EYPs and TAs from early years settings and primary schools only; or
- Register interest in the HLCP programme but not apply for the Pilot at this stage.
Choose an option:
Information for SLCN and SaLT service managers/teams
Information about the HLCP programme and how it will affect local SLCN and SaLT services can be found in the HLCP Programme Information for local SLCN and SaLT managers and teams document.