Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield (CT); On-site; USD 42,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Discounts

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with a focus on acute mental health care. You will lead SLT within the Physical Health Therapies Team and work across sites to improve the physical health therapy offer for adult service users in acute mental health wards.

You will provide assessments and interventions for dysphagia and related community difficulties while supporting staff through leadership programs and professional supervision.

Qualifications

• Registered Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with registration in good standing.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management of speech and language therapy within the Physical Health Therapies Team.
• Conduct clinical assessments and interventions for patients with dysphagia and community difficulties.
• Collaborate across acute mental health care sites to shape and develop high-quality SLT services.

Skills

Leadership

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

At North London Foundation Trust, we are committed to improving the physical health of our service users and are passionate about addressing the health inequalities faced by those with mental health needs.

We are looking for an experiencedSpeech and Language Therapistwith a special interest in working with service users whilst in acute mental health care. You will be equally passionate about addressing inequality and committed to working alongside other AHPs to improve the physical health therapy offer. The post holder will have an exciting opportunity to influence and shape future SLT provision across the care group.

We have four acute sites in the Trust across Highgate, Edgeware, Haringey and Enfield. Your flexibility to work across these sites and to respond to need is essential.

Development and quality improvement will be embedded as part of this role. We have close working relationships with our local physical health provision and will ensure these posts do not become isolated but are fully linked in with the North London wide offer. The post holder will be part of the SLT professional networks in NLFT, including the SLT leadership group and will have access to professional supervision from an SLT. Additionally the post holder will be encouraged to access the SLT Mental Health Network and other relevant CENs.

If this sounds exciting to you, like it does to us,

Why NLFT?

• The Physical Health Therapies Team will provide Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Podiatry services. The team will work in collaboration with established AHP teams and other physical health colleagues within the care group to deliver physical health interventions for adult service users in acute mental health wards within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
• The postholder will provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership and managementof speech and therapywithin the Physical Health TherapiesTeam,and help lead on the design, delivery, and development of high-quality care within this new service in line with advances in evidence-informed practice, digital transformation, etc.
• The postholder will act as the deputy team manager for the Physical Health Therapies Team and will assume the team manager's responsibilities in their absence.
• They will autonomously utilise highly specialist knowledge and skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, and management to services users with physical health presentations, thus optimising the clinical pathway, and guide and support others to do the same.
• The post holder will provide clinical assessments and interventions for patients with dysphagia and community difficulties, as indicated by patient need
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

This advert closes on Sunday 25 Oct 2026

£31,554 - £33,270 Per annum inclusive of HCAS

£47,951 - £56,863 per annum, inclusive of Inner London HCAS