Highly specialist speech & language therapist - Early Years Team

NHS; Uxbridge; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Uxbridge is seeking a passionate speech and language therapist to join their team. The role offers the chance to work with children aged 0-19, providing specialist assessment and intervention. Join a supportive environment that emphasizes leadership, development, and mentoring of junior staff. This permanent position is part-time with a salary range of £53,751 to £60,651 pro rata per annum.

Benefits

Regular supervision meetings

Peer supervision meetings

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience working with children aged 0-19 with communication needs.
• Ability to develop training packages for early years settings.
• Experience supervising junior staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and intervention for children.
• Lead on quality governance and audits for the service.
• Monitor effectiveness of therapy programmes.

Skills

Assessment and intervention skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification

Health and Care Professions Council licence to practice

Job description

Job summary

Would you like to be part of a friendly and supportive SLT team?

Do you want to develop your leadership skills?

0.7 WTE Band 7 role:

We are looking for a passionate speech and language therapist to work in the Hillingdon Early Years team supporting children and young people who have a speech, language or communication need.

You will be part of a supportive band 7 team and take a lead in developing projects and supervising more junior staff.

Have a look on our Hillingdon Talks, Moves and Plays website to find out about our wider service.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service for children 0-19 with Speech Language and or communication needs.
• To be part of the ADOS assessment team.
• To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service to children 0-19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties.
• To support in the development of training packages to early years settings, staff, parents and other professionals, in order for them to identify concerns regarding the child/young person’s needs and implement therapy advice effectively.
• To support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators, maintaining Target Activity Levels and demonstrating impact on quality and outcomes.
• To lead on quality governance, audits and projects for the team/service.
• To be responsible for the performance management of identified team members.
• To support the team leader in the leading and development of the team.
• To be responsible with team leader support for service improvement initiatives.

About us

We can offer you:

• A buddy who will meet with you every week at first to help you settle in and who you can ask lots of questions.
• Regular supervision meetings with the team leader every 6 weeks, alongside annual appraisal and informal support.
• Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, read articles together and share your experiences.
• Regular meetings with the other band 7 mainstream team SLTs to ensure that the workload is being shared and support given.
• A busy but manageable caseload.
• Opportunities to develop your clinical and leadership skills and knowledge through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists/ leaders, membership of a CEN, training courses - clinical and leadership.

Details

Date posted
14 November 2025

Pay scheme
Agenda for change

Band
Band 7

Salary
£53,751 to £60,651 a year Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS

Contract
Permanent

Working pattern
Part-time

Reference number
333-G-HC-1526

Job locations
Woodlands Centre
Pield Heath Road
Uxbridge
UB8 3NN

Job responsibilities

To assess, develop and implement highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy intervention.

To provide appropriate highly specialist intervention / assessment and evaluate outcomes.

To demonstrate highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children 0-19.

To facilitate relevant professionals/parents to carry out speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice.

To monitor the effectiveness of speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice being delivered by other relevant professionals/parents and adjust as necessary.

To make a differential diagnosis, including complex cases, on the basis of evidence from assessment.

To develop clear packages of care based on best practice and differential diagnosis and to use highly specialist clinical knowledge to inform case management.

To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.

To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in own highly specialist clinical area.

To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and supervisors and identify own strengths and development needs.

To manage caseload independently and prioritise workload using highly specialised skills.

To recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and seek to resolve using highly developed negotiation skills, seeking further support from team leader if necessary.

To ensure that children / young people, their families and schools / nurseries are involved in the planning and implementation of their care.

To maintain sensitivity to the emotional needs of children & their families, especially when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the child’s difficulties and its implications.

To attend case conferences & core group meetings for children / young people on the caseload, where appropriate.

To submit safeguarding reports to case conferences and reviews.

To record all concerns and discussions/supervision regarding safeguarding issues in Systmone clinical notes.

To attend safeguarding supervision for all children / young people with a Child Protection Plan at least every 12 weeks.

To provide safeguarding supervision (when trained) for team members on a rotational basis.

To work independently and to access clinical supervision sessions on a regular basis & actively contribute to own appraisal on an annual basis.

To collate evidence of professional development related to the RCSLT CPD log.

To demonstrate highly developed negotiation skills across a range of issues and to negotiate with others around case management in highly complex cases.

To deal with complaints sensitively avoiding escalation where possible, and to inform the team leader in a timely fashion.

To communicate highly complex information from assessments and ongoing therapy to children / young people, families and other professionals.

To write outcome focused reports, and programmes/target sheets reflecting highly specialist knowledge which meet the needs of the child / young person.

To support the development of, and adhere to, service plans and policies giving constructive feedback as appropriate.

To advise team leader on issues of service shortfall or pressure.

To assume delegated leadership responsibilities and tasks as requested by TL.

To work within infection control and health and safety guidelines.

To report all incidents in a timely fashion and access learning following incident investigation outcomes & complaints. Attend training to complete incident investigations.

To support other team members in the reporting of incidents in a timely fashion.

To work within legal frameworks including: SEND reforms e.g. Statutory EHCP assessments, London safeguarding procedures and policies.

To attend, contribute to and present at Team and Departmental meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifications Essential

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent (minimum of 2:2 or equivalent).
• Further training courses relevant to the post.
• Attendance at special interest group/clinical excellence group.
• Health and Care Professions Council licence to practice.
• Registered member of relevant organisation eg Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and other relevant bodies.
• Successful completion of highly specialist/expert short courses including ASD, Education practice.

Desirable

• First class honours degree or equivalent.
• Successful completion of highly specialist advanced postgraduate study at MSc or equivalent.

Experience Essential

• Extensive experience of working in a mainstream/special school as a therapist.
• Training and experience of working with children with eating and swallowing difficulties.
• Experience of working within multidisciplinary/multi-agency team. Detailed knowledge of multi-disciplinary team approaches.
• Experience of managing/supervising more junior staff and students and participating in appraisal.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of assessing children using the ADOS assessment.
• Experience of working with other agencies.
• Management experience, undertaking delegated departmental duties at Band 6 level or above.

Desirable

• Experience of leading audits.
• Participate in research / evaluation of practice. Knowledge of basic qualitative & quantitative research approaches and of the key elements of writing a research protocol.
• Leadership of and/or participation in a special interest group across disciplines.

Skills and Knowledge Essential

• Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively.
• Ability to mentor and support junior therapists and students promoting clinical excellence in self and others.
• Ability to clearly communicate assessment findings giving verbal and written reports that deliver complex information to carers, young people and other health professionals.
• Knowledge of advanced approaches to support clients & carers with challenging behaviour, mental health needs or in high levels of distress.
• Demonstrate knowledge of standards of practice and guidelines e.g. HCPC Professional Conduct Guidelines.
• Demonstrate an awareness of current legislation and act in accordance e.g. Child protection.
• Implementation of national initiatives and legislation relating to Health and Social Care in relation to children with developmental concerns and disabilities.
• Ability to be actively involved in development and implementation of clinical policies and procedures.
• Evidence of knowledge of conditions likely to be encountered in Community Paediatrics and their impact on a child's functional abilities, independence and development e.g. Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Coordination Disorders, ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Severe Learning Disabilities and Developmental Delay.
• Working knowledge and understanding of a highly specialist range of assessment tools and procedures to evaluate the strengths and needs of young people (birth -19) who present with a wide range of needs (as relevant to professional discipline).

Other Essential

• Be proficient in data management and information governance and comfortable with learning new clinical record keeping systems.
• Demonstrate ability to analyse performance data and high quality performance reports.
• Be computer literate with working knowledge and ability to use appropriate computer software.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.