Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

East London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist to join a growing children's SLT team. The post involves working across Early Years, mainstream schools and complex needs, with caseloads allocated by experience and interest.

You will deliver 1-1 assessments/interventions in Early Years clinics and nurseries, provide parent workshops, and collaborate with school staff to support universal, targeted and specialist services.

Qualifications

• Newly qualifying or experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) for paediatric caseload.
• Ability to work across multiple service areas (Early Years, mainstream schools, complex needs).
• Strong collaboration within multidisciplinary teams and with school staff.

Responsibilities

• Deliver paediatric SLT services across Early Years, schools and complex needs settings.
• Conduct 1-1 dynamic assessments and interventions in Early Years clinics and nurseries.
• Provide parent workshops and groups in Family hubs and Children’s centres.
• Work in clinic or specialist settings for children with complex needs.
• Contribute to staff training, family education and service CPD; participate in supervision and preceptorship if applicable.

Job description

Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist | East London NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualifying or an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our growing children's speech and language therapy team.

We have opportunities to work across the service including Early Years, mainstream schools and complex needs. Your role will involve working across no more than two parts of the service. Sessions will be allocated depending on experience and interest.

Within the Schools Team, the caseload is varied, split between delivering a core service and a buy in service into the schools. There are opportunities within pre-school, primary and secondary settings where we work in close partnership with school staff to provide a 3 tier model of universal, targeted and specialist support for children, young people and their families. Training for school staff and families is a crucial part of the service we deliver.

Within the Early Years service you will be seeing children within clinics and nurseries. We deliver 1-1 dynamic assessments/ intervention and provide parent workshops and groups in our Family hubs and Children’s centres.

Within the complex needs service you will be working with children and families in a clinic setting and/or in a specialist resource or special school setting.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

As a service we have robust supervision structures and excellent CPD opportunities. If you are an NQP you will benefit from the ELFT preceptorship programme. Preceptorship isa period of structured transition to guide and support all newly qualified practitioners from student to autonomous professional in order to develop their practice further

We are part of a multi-disciplinary therapies team who work to deliver a high quality service for the children of Newham and their families. Within the Child Development Service, the team work closely with multidisciplinary partners such as Dietitians, Paediatricians, Occupational therapists, Physiotherapist and Specialist nurses,

For full details please refer to the attached job description and person specification