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We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and creative speech and language therapist to join our team!
We are seeking a speech and language therapist to join our Early Language Team within Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a team of SLTs and Bilingual Co workers that supports children with speech and language difficulties until the end of Reception class. The successful applicant will work in community settings including: children and family centres, nurseries/schools, clinics, patient’s homes and various venues in Tower Hamlets.
This is an exciting time as we have changed our service to better meet the needs of the community. You will be involved in universal, targeted, and specialist levels of support, and will have the opportunity to support ongoing development of the service. You will be working with parents and children under five years of age (up to the end of Reception) in community and health venues, with a particular focus on children with language and speech sound needs. The SLT service as a whole works within the Care Aims framework and seeks to enable children to communicate more effectively and get the most out of home and school life. The team is a supportive and friendly one where your enthusiasm, empathy, and creativity will be welcomed.
As a Band 7 you will have the opportunity to co-ordinate designated parts of the Early Language pathway and lead on service improvements.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and a variety of intervention programmes at a highly specialist level.
The post holder provides clinical support and supervises junior speech and language therapists and / or bilingual speech and language therapy (SLT) co-workers involved in providing a service to preschool / Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children with language needs or social communication differences (SCD). S/He coordinates the delivery of the service in liaison with the lead SLTs.
The service provides a graduated offer of universal, targeted, and specialist support. The post holder will be required to lead on aspects at any of these levels. They may be asked to work in the language stream, the SCD stream, or both.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Applied knowledge of issues relating to the SEN Code of Practice
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for a child
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group(s)
- Knowledge of a range of interventions and well-developed applied knowledge of more specialized intervention techniques relevant to the client group(s)
- Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals
- Excellent awareness of standards of record-keeping
Desirable
- Up-to-date knowledge of the theory and practice relating to DLD, speech sound disorders and/or ASD.
- Excellent awareness of issues of multilingual and multicultural communities relating to speech and language therapy
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Knowledge of Signalong sign system
Experience
Essential
- Experience of organising and ensuring care of equipment and resources
- Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more setting
Desirable
- Experience of supervision / management of staff
- Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
- Experience of clinical governance, including evidence-based practice, audit, quality standards, target-setting, and evaluation
- Experience of working with children and / or young people with: Developmental Language Disorder, speech sound difficulties, social communication disorders and ASD.
- Experience of working in the community clinic setting
- Experience in the organization and presentation of workshops, courses, or other training packages
- Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to the post
- Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a speech and language therapy or multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with a range of cultural and religious practices in the community
- Working knowledge of the Care Aims Model
- Clinical experience of working with bilingual families
- Experience of providing universal and targeted level support
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and The Health and Care Professions Council
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This advert is for Speech and Language Therapist with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc (pro rata). The contract type is 12 months (Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.). The application deadline is 05 Jul 2026.
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