Speech and Language Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to deliver a clinical and advisory SLT service to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs, including those with ASD and LD in school and community settings.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team with advisory teachers and SLT assistants, support parents and professionals, and contribute to training for school staff and carers.

Qualifications

• Clinical and advisory SLT service for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• Include children with ASD, LD and those in special/mainstream settings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and provide supervision access.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assessment and therapy services and monitor progress.
• Contribute to training and information for staff, parents and carers.

Job description

Speech and Language Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

To provide a clinical and advisory Speech and Language Therapy service to children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs, including children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Learning Disabilities (LD)including those with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD)attending special schools and mainstream schools/specialist provisions in Bexley.Opportunity to develop both assessment and intervention skills.

To be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing an integrated care pathway. To work as part of an integrated team with an Advisory Teacher and Speech and Language Assistants.

To support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management, with access to supervision from senior therapists.

To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information for school staff, parents and carers and colleagues in health and education alongside senior colleagues.

To work as part of a team with class-teachers, learning support assistants, head teacher, therapists, and the child’s family / carers.

To provide an assessment and therapy service for children with speech and language needs, and children with complex communication needs referred to the SLT service.

To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic aspects of clients’ communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.

To manage a complex communication caseload, accessing clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis and to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking advice when appropriate.

To deliver care in line with the RCSLT/HCPC professional guidelines and standards.

To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapy interventions to enable functional improvement. To monitor and review the progress of therapy programmes implemented and facilitate modifications of interventions/targets as appropriate.

To ensure maximum involvement of the client, family/carer, education staff and other professional staff where appropriate in planning care and the therapy programme.

To reflect on clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.

To maintain professional competence through personal development and training. To be responsible for maintaining own professional registration and meet HCPC Registration requirements maintaining a professional portfolio.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

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Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We areunable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

This advert closes on Monday 23 Nov 2026