Speech and Language Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to join the Early Language team. The role covers assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and intervention for children under five with language and speech needs in community and health settings across Tower Hamlets.

You will work with parents and families, providing supervision to junior SLTs and bilingual co-workers, and engage in ongoing service development within a supportive NHS environment.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous practitioner responsible for assessments, diagnosis and intervention for under-5s with speech and language needs.
• Provide supervision and day-to-day guidance to bilingual SLT co-workers.
• Deliver services across community settings including children and family centres, nurseries/schools, clinics, homes and Tower Hamlets venues.

Job description

Speech and Language Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust

We are seeking a speech and language therapist to join our Early Language team within Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a team of SLTs and Bilingual Co workers that supports children with speech and language difficulties until the end of Reception class. The successful applicant will work in community settings including: children and family centres, nurseries/schools, clinics, patient’s homes and various venues in Tower Hamlets.

This is an exciting time as we have changed our service to better meet the needs of the community. You will have opportunities in universal, targeted, and specialist levels of support, and will have the opportunity to support ongoing development of the service. You will be working with parents and children under five years of age (up to the end of Reception) in community and health venues, with a focus on children with language and speech sound needs.

We provide group clinical supervision, individual line management, a programme of in-house training and support, along with ad hoc support from experienced colleagues who will share your office base.

Our office is based at Mile End Hospital, conveniently located between Mile End and Stepney Green tube stations and serviced by a number of local buses. Locations around Tower Hamlets are easily reached by walking, cycling, or using public transport.

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and a variety of intervention programmes in the management of the under 5s caseload.

The post holder provides clinical support and may supervise more junior speech and language therapists, as well as providing day-to-day supervision of bilingual speech and language therapy (SLT) co-workers involved in providing a service to preschool / Early Years Foundation Stage children managed by speech and language therapy.

The service provides a graduated offer of universal, targeted, and specialist support. This specific post is in the Early Language Team, which supports children up to the end of Reception who have difficulties with comprehension, expression, or speech. The postholder may also be required to support other speech and language therapy teams working with under 5s.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Please note: When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High Cost Area Supplement) is not included for non-medical roles. This ensures fairness and consistency within our organisation, as some of our sites fall under inner HCAS, while others are classified as outer HCAS.

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Nov 2026