Childrens Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

Portsmouth City Neurodevelopmental Service Speech and Language Therapist.

We are looking to recruit a specialist Speech and Language therapist with an interest in neurodiversity to work in the new Portsmouth neurodiversity team. We would welcome interest from Speech and language therapists who have experience of working with children with social interaction difficulties and their families. This role will primarily be providing indirect support through others, so your knowledge of evidenced based interventions and new ways of looking at neurodiversity is essential.

Within this post there will be responsibility to provide training and development to the team of support workers and professional colleagues in the team. The role will be within the Neurodiversity team at the Portsmouth Civic Offices and working directly with the team to provide advice and support to families.

Main duties of the job

As part of the role, you will undertake some ADOS assessment and as part of a multidisciplinary team make differential diagnosis where this needed. You will be required to support families to help them come to terms with new and sometimes difficult messages. You will need to be able to adapt your communication style to be able to support both families and professionals.

If you would like to have an informal discussion, please email Claire Mason - claire.mason@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 09 July 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 6
• Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Part-time
• Reference number: 348-CFS-11841
• Job locations: Portsmouth Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2GJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.