Speech and Language Therapist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Speech and Language Therapist in a vibrant London borough. This role offers the chance to make a real impact on children's lives by supporting their communication needs in schools and specialized settings. You will work alongside a dedicated team, receive excellent supervision, and have opportunities for professional development. The organization values innovation and collaboration, ensuring that you feel supported and valued in your career journey. If you're passionate about helping children thrive, this position is for you!

Qualifications

• Degree in speech and language therapy or equivalent required.
• Registration with the Health Professions Council is essential.

Responsibilities

• Support children with speech, language, and communication needs.
• Deliver training to staff and parents on communication strategies.
• Participate in clinical audits and departmental meetings.

Skills

Communication Skills

Empathy

Report Writing

Training Delivery

Care Plan Construction

Education

Recognised speech and language therapy degree

Registration with the Health Professions Council

Membership of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Job description

Our current vacancies

If you want to be part of the Royal Free London team, search our current vacancies below to find the job for you.

Main area Speech and Language Therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 12 months (Fixed term until February 1st 2026) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Term time hours

Job ref 391-NMUH-7156423

Site Cedar House Town Enfield Salary £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 14/05/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

We are delighted to advertise the following vacancy in our friendly, innovative team. You would be joining a large team of 35 whole time equivalents in a diverse borough. We have a strong partnership with the local authority, and can offer you a range of experience across the delivery of interventions to school age children

We have a high retention rate amongst staff and will work closely with you to tailor make opportunities to develop your career. We currently have sessions available within the speech sound pathway and dysfluency pathways in addition to the role described below

We would welcome applications from newly qualified staff as well as staff with some experience and therefore would consider offering this post as a Band 6 or a Band 5/6 run through.

We would love you to come and join us.

This is what our team say about working for the Enfield School age Speech and Language Team:

'Supportive and welcoming team'

'Friendly, stable team. Open to innovation'

'Supportive management and supervision structure. I feel very well supported and always listened to.

'The management team care about your well-being and career development is at the heart of their priorities.

'Nurturing team where you feel like family!

'Excellent clinical supervision, very friendly supportive team. Excellent peer supervision, excellent safeguarding supervision. You will be valued, respected for your skills in every way.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a varied post, supported and guided by Senior staff.

Main duties of the job

Supporting children and young people with Education Health and Care plans who have a range of speech, language and communication needs, attending Enfield mainstream primary and secondary schools and in specialist provisions (Additional Resource Provision or special school).

Supporting children and young people and Education staff within special schools to develop facilitative communication environments and contribute to developing the curriculum to focus on communication everyday throughout the day.

The post holder willparticipate in CPD activities and will contribute to departmental meetings, clinical audit and projects.

They will deliver training, initially with a more senior colleague, to other professionals and parents/carers on all aspects of speech, language and communication.

He/she will participate in the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and supervise the work of LSAs/TAs.

Newly qualified therapists have the opportunity to be involved in a preceptorship programme.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the candidates pack that is attached to this job role for a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.

In addition if you would like to discuss any further aspect of the role please contact [e-mail] to arrange a time to discuss.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised speech and language therapy degree or equivalent
• Registration with the Health Professions Council for Licence to Practice
• Registered member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
• Car Driver/owner

Skills and Abilities

• Confident and experienced in delivering training
• Able to construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate intervention types from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment
• Ability to write reports using accessible language and demonstrating clinical reasoning

Experience

• Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Primary school level
• Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or a Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Secondary school level
• A knowledge of SEN and national documents providing support and guidance to schools on supporting children with SEN
• Experience of different intervention methods for children of school age
• Knowledge and experience of a range of methods of assessment appropriate for school age children
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrates empathy with clients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities
• Able to make own effective travel arrangements

Trust Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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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.

Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.