# Highly Specialist Children's Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-childrens-speech-and-language-therapist/6f8d8bdd-6aa2-4bbe-ac61-9da1a1f5c0b0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-childrens-speech-and-language-therapist/6f8d8bdd-6aa2-4bbe-ac61-9da1a1f5c0b0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St John's Therapy Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum pro rata inc HCAS (inner London) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-25T09:10:29.001Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8215761 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8215761?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A fantastic opportunity has arisen across our Schools Speech and Language Therapy Teams. The team is part of the wider Community Paediatric SLT and Children's Therapies team. This is a supportive and dynamic team with many professional development opportunities. We pride ourselves on our commitment to creating an equal and inclusive working environment for people of all backgrounds providing an evidence based service for all our children and their families. You will have: - Knowledge and/or experience of working with, a diverse paediatric caseload - Experience working with parents of young children - Experience of supporting the evaluation of service delivery - Experience in delivering universal and / or targeted level offers to mainstream schools - Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team - Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary - Enthusiasm, imagination, and initiative - Understanding of the neurodiversity framework The role will encompass supervision and and support of junior speech and language therapists as well as speech and language therapy assistants. The post holder will also support the development and evaluation of service delivery. ### Main duties of the job Within this role you will: - Take a leadership role to continue to develop our service for children with language disorders - Supervise junior staff including newly qualified Speech and Language Therapists (SLT) - Support the evaluation and quality improvement of the SLT service with the support of the clinical team leads - Be able to manage a diverse and varied paediatric caseload of children who are in schools and resource bases - Develop your leadership and management skills within the Mainstream Primary Schools SLT including service development ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of main responsibilities Please ensure you demonstrate how you meet the essential/desirable criteria as part of your application. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant specialist experience post qualification working as a Speech and Language Therapist - Experience of operational caseload management for children with an SLCN - Experience in assessment and intervention of children aged 4-18 years - Experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of service improvement projects **Desirable** - Experience working with assistants ### Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent - Health Professions Council – License to Practice - Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists **Desirable** - ADOS competencies ## Documents - [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2465) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 424.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10536342) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.