Specialist Children’s Speech & Language Therapist

Church Lane Surgery; Harlow; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

As a Specialist Children’s Speech & Language Therapist at a leading healthcare service in West Essex, you will provide essential therapeutic support to children with communication needs. With a focus on an integrated care model, you'll collaborate with various professionals to enhance the quality of life for children and their families, contributing to service development and the highest standards of clinical care.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Free tea and coffee at base location

Access to discounts through My Reward Hub

Access to wages as you earn them

Online wellbeing support

Continuous professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience with children.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Understanding of local and national child protection policies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a delegated caseload of children providing assessments and interventions.
• Collaborate with families and professionals to set treatment goals.
• Communicate clinical findings through detailed reports.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving

Education

Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Current HCPC registration

RCSLT membership

Job description

Vacancies Specialist Children’s Speech & Language Therapist

Job Introduction

Are you a compassionate and forward-thinking Speech and Language Therapist looking to build on your experience with school-aged children who have speech, language, and communication needs? Do you want to be part of a supportive and progressive team that’s committed to delivering the highest standards of clinical care?

At Children's Speech and Language Therapy in West Essex, you’ll be part of the award-winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we’re leading the way with an innovative, integrated partnership model in collaboration with Barnardo’s. Recognised nationally and presented to government and local authorities, our approach puts more time and people into frontline services — improving outcomes for children and families across the community.

As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll provide direct support to children and young people, their families, and other service users. You’ll work closely with colleagues across our Pre-Birth to 19 Team and Specialist Children’s Services, including our pioneering JADES pathway for autism assessment and early support. You’ll also collaborate with partners in health, education, and social care to help children overcome communication barriers and achieve their full potential.

This is a full-time position based at our Tree House Family Hub location in Harlow.

Main Responsibility

• Independently manage a delegated caseload of children across a range of settings, providing assessment, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based interventions.
• Collaborate closely with parents, carers, and professionals to set goals, agree treatment plans, and review outcomes for children with speech, language, and communication needs.
• Communicate clinical findings and recommendations through detailed reports, including contributions to Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and multiagency documentation.
• Participate in multiagency meetings, including safeguarding case conferences, and ensure safeguarding concerns are reported in line with local policies.
• Adapt clinical practice to meet the individual needs of children and families, considering cultural and linguistic diversity.
• Deliver training to colleagues, carers, and education professionals to support children’s communication needs across settings.
• Work in partnership with the Pre-Birth to 19 service, Early Years settings, and schools to promote integrated and coordinated care.
• Contribute to service development, support key performance targets, and participate in clinical audit and governance activities.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

Holds a recognised degree or postgraduate qualification in Speech and Language Therapy, with current HCPC registration and RCSLT membership.

Has a minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience, with specialist knowledge of assessment and intervention for children with speech, language, and communication needs.

Demonstrates evidence of continued professional development, including relevant post-graduate training and participation in Clinical Excellence Networks.

Understands local and national policies, particularly those related to child protection, education, and children’s health services.

Confidently manages their own caseload and works effectively across a range of client groups and settings.

Brings experience in delivering and developing training for carers and professionals.

Possesses strong communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build positive relationships and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment.

Adaptable and well-organised, with the ability to prioritise effectively and respond to changing needs in a fast-paced service.

Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Package Description

As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist you’ll be working as part of the NHS in West Essex where we deliver community health services to children and young people aged 0-19. This post is for a candidate who wishes to work predominantly with school aged children.

You will feel valued as a Specialist Children’s Speech and Language Therapistwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £37,338 - £44,962 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Specialist Children’s Speech & Language Therapist

• Frequency Annual
• Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/25229/15840
• Contract Type Permanent - Full Time
• Closing Date 29 June, 2025
• Job Category HCRG - Allied Health Professionals