Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

Band 6 Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist - Richmond

We are looking for a part-time Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our innovative and successful Paediatric Therapies Team in Richmond for a fixed term to cover maternity leave.

The Richmond-upon-Thames Local Area SEND inspection report (October 2023) commented positively on our team’s work:

‘Therapists provide timely assessments and innovative approaches to make sure that those caring for or working with children and young people with SEND receive the support and guidance they need.’

Richmond is a great place to live and work and has been named as the “happiest place to live” in Great Britain (Rightmove’s “Happy at Home” Index, 2023).

We are a well-established, integrated and supportive team. All therapists have regular individual and peer group supervision, access to specialist outreach, and internal and external training. We welcome applications for full and part-time work, and there are plenty of opportunities to develop your clinical interests. Here’s what some of our current therapists like about working in our team:

“This team is by far the most supportive I have worked in”.

“The management have been very proactive with helping me find and develop a specialism”.

“It’s very easy to access supervision and outreach by specialists and everyone is actively keen to help”.

“We have a big band 6 team so there’s a lot of peer support”.  

This is a fixed-term part-time post to cover maternity leave.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• We welcome applicants with experience in working with children/young people with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs in early years, mainstream schools and special schools. 
• Our therapists also develop their skills by taking on responsibilities outside of direct caseload work to support the service – such as training, resource development, service design, audit and outreach.

Working for our organisation

Development and staff wellbeing

• Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. 
• From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. 
• Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed.
• We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.

To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.

We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.

Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.