# Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, Early Years Team Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-early-years-team-lead/ef232622-9902-446c-a9b5-0de8bb019786 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-early-years-team-lead/ef232622-9902-446c-a9b5-0de8bb019786.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Lodge, Erith Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Salary:** £55524.00 to £62652.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-01T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-18T14:37:37.683Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8223132 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8223132?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxleas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership skills within an early years/community clinic service? If so come and join Bexley Children’s Speech & Language Therapy service. You will be an experienced and self-motivated highly specialist speech and language therapist who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, leading the service for early years and some school age children with diverse speech, language and communication needs, referred for assessment, advice and therapy. You will lead a team of therapists and assistants as well as being responsible for day to day operational and management activities. You will be involved in all aspects of caseload management, recruitment, service development, audit, training, supervision and appraisal. The Bexley Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service is a dynamic and supportive team and we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision and support structures and would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical and management skills and contribute towards operational projects to support service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care and education. If you would like more information about the position, please do contact us to discuss this job opportunity further, by calling 020 30040092, to speak to Dennis Mlambo. ### Main duties of the job - To provide leadership to the early years community clinic team ensuring continued clinical service development. - To demonstrate and provide highly specialist knowledge in clinical specialism/s underpinned by current evidence-based practice and to evaluate outcomes. - To manage complex and highly specialist caseload independently and plan the workload of others. - To make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessment of complex cases. - To provide highly specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). - To manage, lead and provide highly specialist supervision to therapists and assistants working within the early years’ community clinic team and other parts of the service. - To meet with parents, child and young people, taking and responding to feedback to develop care pathways and monitor the quality of child and parent information. - To ensure that children, young people and families are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible. - To take a clinical specialist role in the development of local clinical guidelines informed by evidence, for children and young people with SLCN. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more information and a detailed description of the main duties please refer to the Job Description attached ### 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** - Clinical experience of working with children with specific speech and language difficulties in early years community clinics at least 5 years - Experience of co-ordinating service delivery - Experience of supervising staff/conducting appraisals **Desirable** - Experience of writing local policies ### Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent - Membership of The Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) **Desirable** - Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master’s degree equivalent. Membership of relevant CEN/s ### Knowledge & Skills **Essential** - Well established knowledge of a broad range assessment tools relevant to the client groups - Demonstrates flexibility and ability to respond to workload demands as priorities arise. - Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others. **Desirable** - Experience of leading clinical development ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1847) - [privacy notice for staff (pdf, 268.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1659) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 320.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10535351) - [important additional information for candidates (please read carefully) (pdf, 160.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1656) ## 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.