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Are you a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist seeking a new role?

At NELFT, we have the perfect opportunity for you. And we flex to suit you, let us know if we can accommodate a flexible working arrangement to suit your personal circumstances.

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our SLT team within the Vanguard Project and on the CAMHS Neurodevelopmental diagnostic pathway for autism and ADHD for children and young people over the age of five in Waltham Forest.

Waltham Forest is a great place to live and work - a thriving community with an abundance of amenities and good transport links. You can find out more about the area and the services that we provide to local residents on our careers website – www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk.

Main duties of the job

Speech and Language Therapists are core to the efficient service delivery that we provide to children, young people and their families.

As a Speech and Language Therapist in our service, you will deliver care to children, young people and their families in the community and within the clinic setting at Wood Street Health Centre. 

You will be working on the autism and ADHD diagnostic pathway for children and young people over five within an MDT. This pathway sits within the CAMHS team where you will be working alongside OT’s, psychiatry, family therapy, clinical and counselling psychologists, specialist nursing and child and adolescent psychotherapists.

You will also be working on the Vanguard project. This is an NHS-England pilot project focused on supporting the needs of young people at risk of or impacted by violence. This is a multi-systems and multi-agency project working closely alongside Local Authority and Community Sector organisations. The project adopts a trauma-informed and social justice approach. 

The Health team offers two streams of support: Strengthening the System and Targeted Support. This involves  facilitating training, workshops, reflective practice sessions and a consultation model of support. You will support Case Workers/ Youth Engagement Workers in their thinking and development of shared understandings in relation to young people they are working with. 

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.  As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period  
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15%.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.