Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 1 year (1 day/week 0.2 wte maternity leave cover for 1 year fixed term.)
- Hours
- Part time - 7.5 hours per week (1 day/week)
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3763
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Inner London HCAS pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
B7 Speech and Language Therapist - Early Years
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
B7 SLT 1 year Fixed Term, maternity leave cover.
1 day/7.5 hours per week (0.2wte)
The Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service (IANDS) provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team approach to working with babies, children and young people with additional needs and complex disability. Within this service are teams providing assessment, diagnostic and therapy services to children and young people 0-19 years.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated Speech & Language Therapist with specialist experience of working with young children with severe speech difficulties and disorders, including Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS).
The post holder will work in the Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team which provides clinic-based assessment, support and intervention for children up to 5 years old with a range of developmental speech, language and communication needs.
The post holder will work at the Northern Health Centre and will manage the Speech Clinic. The postholder will provide specialist assessment and intervention to nursery and reception age children with severe and complex speech needs, including cleft lip and/or palate, CAS and other significant speech difficulties, often in association with other needs.
The post holder will also provide support to colleagues within the team and offer specialist advice and second opinions for children with speech needs.
We will offer you excellent CPD opportunities with a strong emphasis on individual performance appraisal and supervision.
Please see Job Description for full details of the role.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will work at the Northern Health Centre. The post holder will be experienced in working with pre-school children with a wide range of language and social communication differences. The post holder will be experienced in carrying out assessments, making differential diagnoses and using a variety of intervention approaches, including parent-coaching frameworks.
The post holder will have highly specialist knowledge and experience of working with young children with speech sound difficulties and disorders. They will provide expertise in managing the Speech Clinic, providing highly specialist assessment and intervention for a small caseload of nursery and reception age children with severe and complex speech needs, including cleft lip and/or palate, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and other significant speech difficulties, often in association with other needs.
The post holder will provide support to less experienced members of the team and offer specialist advice and second opinions for children with severe speech needs.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for organising and managing their own caseload. They will be innovative, an active participant in quality improvement projects and audits and will work alongside the Team Lead on recruitment, induction and service development as required.
Please see attached JD/PS.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc. Speech Path or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise
- Successful completion of highly specialist/expert short or post graduate courses relevant to field, e.g. cleft palate, CAS, parent coaching frameworks, Cycles, Core vocabulary
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written communication skills
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Of a highly specialist range of assessment tools and procedures to evaluate speech in young children
- Of a highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to developing the speech skills of young children, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches
- Working with nursery and reception age children with a wide range of developmental speech, language and communication needs in clinic
- Working with young children with complex speech needs, including CAS and cleft palate
- Writing statutory assessment / EHCP advice
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring, advising, supporting and clinically supervising less experienced SLTs and assistants
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kajal Doshi
- Job title
- Team Lead - Early Years Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
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