Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London seeks a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their Children's Therapy Team. The role focuses on providing assessments and interventions for children with feeding difficulties, working in various settings. Ideal for a Band 6 or Band 7 therapist looking for new challenges. Offers flexible working arrangements and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction

Flexible working hours

Access to professional development

Qualifications

• Experience with children under 1 year (under supervision).
• Evidence of specialist dysphagia practitioner in RCSLT framework.
• Critical analysis of assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Lead provision of SLT services for children with feeding difficulties.
• Independently manage a clinical caseload.
• Provide advanced assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for feeding issues.

Skills

Specialist clinical skills in assessment and therapy

Outstanding interpersonal skills

Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Education

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Go back NELFT North East London Foundation Trust Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 07 October 2025

Are you a qualified speech and language therapist seeking a new role? At NELFT, we have the perfect opportunity for you. And we flex to suit you, let us know if we can accommodate a flexible working arrangement to suit your personal circumstances.

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our diverse Children\'s Speech and Language Therapy Team in the London borough of Redbridge. Redbridge is a great place to live and work - a thriving community with an abundance of amenities and good transport links. You can find out more about the area and the services that we provide to local residents on our careers website – www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk.

You will be working as part of a friendly, diverse and supportive team to provide a service for babies, children and young people presenting feeding difficulties within a range of settings such as patient homes, pre-school settings, community clinics and schools. As part of your role, you will provide assessments as well delivering intervention and training to upskill parents, carers and education staff. You will have lots of opportunities to develop your skills through training cross-borough peer meetings.

This post will ideally suit an established Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new challenge or an experienced Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist ready to diversify their career.

Main duties of the job

Speech and Language Therapists are core to the efficient service delivery that we provide to our patients.

As a Speech and Language Therapist in our Children\'s Speech and Language Therapy Team, you will deliver care to service users in the community, clinics and education settings.

The main responsibilities of the post:

• To lead on and contribute to the provision of SLT services for children (0-19 years) living in Redbridge with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.
• To independently manage a clinical caseload of children with a range of feeding difficulties.
• To provide an advanced standard of assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment for babies, children and young people with feeding difficulties.
• To make highly specialist clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases.
• To provide specialist advice and disseminate information accordingly to parents and other professionals as appropriate.
• To work in the context of a multi- disciplinary team in the Redbridge Child development Centre.
• To make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment evidence providing advice when appropriate and input into EHCPs.
• To provide supervision, advice and second opinions to more junior colleagues.

About us

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.

We offer:

• A programme of induction
• A team of friendly, supportive colleagues with a range of specialist knowledge
• A well developed and supportive Multi disciplinary Team, including joint clinics with a dietitian
• A well-developed supervision and appraisal structure (including monthly supervision with a named therapist and annual appraisals)
• Access to a base with opportunities for frequent contact with other therapists
• An accessible base close to an underground (Central Line) and mainline station (Elizabeth Line)
• Opportunities for frequent contact with other speech and language therapists within NELFT.
• A well-developed support, supervision and appraisal structure.
• Extensive opportunities for continuing professional development (attending specialist courses)
• Well developed agile working facilities
• Monthly speech and language team meetings to discuss current matters and keep up-to-date with changes in the services
• Flexible working hours and arrangements

Candidates will need to demonstrate the following requirements:

• A recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent and relevant professional registration
• Specialist clinical skills in terms of assessment and therapy for children and young people with eating and drinking difficulties
• Some experience of working with Children Under 1 (This can be under-supervision) and a desire to build skills and knowledge in this area.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member.
• Experience in supervising other team members

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To demonstrate professional knowledge as evidenced by 1st degree level or qualification or equivalent HPC registration Membership of RCSLT Membership of relevant specialist interest group

Experience

• Skills and knowledge required of a Speech and Language Therapist working with babies and children with feeding difficulties including: For at least the last 6 months has met the criteria for \"specialist dysphagia practitioner, level C, highly specialist\" in the RCSLT dysphagia training and competency framework and has evidence of this. Ability to critically analyse the validity of assessments and interventions and clearly communicates the results to parents/carers/colleagues

Skills

• Ability to critically analyse the validity of assessments and interventions and clearly communicates the results to parents/carers/colleagues

Skills

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

The Grove Specialist Community Health Services for Children and Young People,

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum plus HCAS pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

395-RR080-25-B

Job locations

The Grove Specialist Community Health Services for Children and Young People,