Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Lewisham and Greenwich; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is recruiting a Speech and Language Therapist to support preschool children with a range of speech, language and communication needs in a clinic setting. You will work with SLT colleagues and assistants, delivering individual and group therapy and assisting with early years training and nursery visits.

You will develop treatment programmes, train families and education settings, and collaborate with community partners to promote communication development in the

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree; HCPC Licence to Practice.
• Experience with preschool children with speech and language needs.
• Ability to train others and work with families.
• Knowledge of IT and computer systems in clinical settings.
• Understanding of Equal Opportunities and inclusive practice.

Responsibilities

• Deliver Speech and Language Therapy services to CYP in the clinic setting.
• Develop clinical pathways and service development projects with leads.
• Manage clinic caseload, triage referrals, handle queries and prioritise.
• Support stakeholders around service implementation.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

Speech and Language Therapy Degree

HCPC Registration/ Licence to Practise

RCST Registration

Clinical Excellence Networks membership

Postgraduate study / short courses

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Site Kaleidoscope Centre for Children and Young People Town Catford Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum plus HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 08/11/2026 23:59

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICs in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

This is an ideal opportunity for those who are passionate about working with preschool aged children with a range of speech, language and communication needs, in a clinic setting. Our caseload is primarily children under the age of 5, with opportunities to work with older children and young people who stammer or require support with their speech sounds.

You will work alongside Speech & Language Therapists and SLT Assistants, providing support to children and their families. You will deliver individual and group therapy, offer initial assessment and support the team with our daily drop-in clinic offer. We also work closely with Lewisham education settings, delivering training and support, and nursery visits for specific children.

There is opportunity to work more widely in the community with local Family Hubs and Early Years settings, delivering support and training focusing on promoting good communication development in the Early Years.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver Speech and Language Therapy services to CYP seen by the Clinic Team
• To work with clinic link colleagues and clinic leads in the development of clinical pathways and service development projects
• To take responsibility for managing a clinic caseload, including triaging new referrals, managing queries, prioritisation, supporting staff and escalating to clinic leads where required
• To support negotiation with all stakeholders, including service users, around service implementation

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To act as the Clinic link for a clinic-based caseload, ensuring efficient administration of thecaseload and leading team work within this setting
• To contribute to improved patient/client experience To manage a complex caseload independently, being accountable for own professionalactions.
• To provide effective speech and language therapy assessment and intervention within ateam around the child and multi-disciplinary ethos and framework.
• To plan, set up and monitor specialist treatment programmes where required, to becarried out by parents, carers, teaching and support staff within the appropriate settings.
• To monitor and review the progress of children on the caseload ensuring there isevidence of sound clinical practice, with due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
• To hold an overview of the therapist’s caseload, to monitor demand and capacity, identifyareas of risk, emerging needs, staffing levels and areas for service development,advising line manager accordingly.
• To ensure strong development of self and contribution to development of others.

Qualifications and Training

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council – Licence to Practice
• Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
• Post graduate study relevant to the field or equivalent specialist advanced short courses

Experience

• Able to demonstrate significant post qualification experience working with pre school aged children with a range of speech, language and communication needs.
• Significant experience working with parents/carers
• Experience of training others
• Experience of working with CYP aged 5+
• Experience of working with partners and stakeholders in the community
• Experience of supporting other less experienced staff/students
• Experience of working with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of national procedure, policies and legal frameworks relevant to the service area such as the
• Up to date knowledge of a range of assessments tools and intervention techniques relevant to children and young people with a variety of speech/language, communication, eating and drinking needs.
• Understanding of Equal Opportunities and the ability to reflect this in practice and interactions with others.
• Knowledge of IT and computer systems
• Able to target and evaluate training (formal and informal) appropriately to the needs of course participants
• Able to target and evaluate training (formal and informal) appropriately to the needs of course participants

Personal Qualities

• Flexible and adaptable to different working environments and modes of service delivery
• Able to demonstrate self-motivation and initiative
• Demonstrates effective communication skills written and verbal

We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally.

We welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve.

We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.