Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist - Band 7

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Carshalton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Carshalton seeks a professional to provide speech and language therapy for children facing communication difficulties. The role involves assessment, treatment, and collaboration with families and other professionals to improve children's health outcomes. Candidates should have experience managing complex cases and demonstrate specialist knowledge in their practice. The position offers opportunities to influence service development and enhance care delivery, with applications closing on December 5, 2025.

Qualifications

• Manage a complex clinical caseload autonomously.
• Use highly specialist knowledge for clinical decisions.
• Develop clear care plans based on best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, treat, and manage children with complex health and learning needs.
• Provide training for the implementation of SLT programmes.
• Participate in the development of the SLT service.

Job description

A Vacancy at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The post holder will provide an evidence-based service that anticipates and responds to the needs of children with speech, language, communication and swallowing difficulties. They will work in partnership with children and their families and with other professions and agencies to reduce the impact of these difficulties on children’s social and emotional development, their learning and their ability to participate in daily life.

Responsibilities:

• To assess, diagnose, treat and manage a caseload of children with complex health and learning needs, with a focus on the management of eating and drinking difficulties for infants, children and young people from 0 to 18 years.
• To provide training as required to enable SLT programmes to be implemented as part of children’s therapy package.
• To provide support and training to enable eating and drinking programmes to be implemented as part of children’s therapy packages.
• To be involved in planning the development of the SLT service in liaison with the SLT Team Leader.
• To offer second opinions and advice to staff writing SLT statutory assessment advice.
• To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
• To work across agreed clinical populations, to manage the implementation of a service that is targeted to need, and supports and empowers families, to improve health and life chance outcomes for children, by giving every child the opportunity to develop their potential; ensuring early detection and referral of problems.
• To participate as a full member of the Sutton Health and Care SLT Team.

Please read the full job description for more information.

Advanced Responsibilities and Qualifications:

• To manage a specialist and highly complex clinical caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
• To use and demonstrate highly specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements / decision making for complex case management and advise others on the same, often in the absence of robust evidence base.
• To make appropriate differential diagnoses and highly specialist clinical decisions based on assessment findings.
• To contribute to and, when appropriate, coordinate applications for AAC devices including funding requests.
• To work in partnership with the education SLTs to research and implement the use of AAC devices within school.
• To develop clear care plans and pathways based on best practice and to update these according to departmental standards.
• To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
• To write reports reflecting specialist knowledge according to departmental standards.
• To provide appropriate specialist intervention based on evidence-based practice and to evaluate therapy using outcome measures.

This advert closes on Friday 5 Dec 2025.