Closing date: 01 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change, Band 5
Salary: £36,943 to £44,900 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time

Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a newly qualifying or an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our growing children's speech and language therapy team.

Main duties of the job
We have opportunities to work across the service including Early Years, mainstream schools and complex needs. Your role will involve working across no more than two parts of the service. Sessions will be allocated depending on experience and interest.

Within the Schools Team, the caseload is varied, split between delivering a core service and a buy in service into the schools. There are opportunities within pre-school, primary and secondary settings where we work in close partnership with school staff to provide a 3 tier model of universal, targeted and specialist support for children, young people and their families. Training for school staff and families is a crucial part of the service we deliver.

Within the Early Years service you will be seeing children within clinics and nurseries. We deliver 1-1 dynamic assessments/ intervention and provide parent workshops and groups in our Family hubs and Children's centres.

Within the complex needs service you will be working with children and families in a clinic setting and/or in a specialist resource or special school setting.

About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

As a service we have robust supervision structures and excellent CPD opportunities. If you are an NQP you will benefit from the ELFT preceptorship programme. Preceptorship is a period of structured transition to guide and support all newly qualified practitioners from student to autonomous professional in order to develop their practice further.

Job responsibilities
We are part of a multi-disciplinary therapies team who work to deliver a high quality service for the children of Newham and their families. Within the Child Development Service, the team work closely with multidisciplinary partners such as Dietitians, Paediatricians, Occupational therapists, Physiotherapist and Specialist nurses.

For full details please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Education/ Qualification

• Essential: Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree/Post graduate degree Qualification or equivalent
• Essential: Health Professions Council - Licence to Practise
• Desirable: Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Experience

• Essential: Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level

Knowledge and Skills

• Essential: Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Essential: Negotiation and Problem-solving Skills
• Essential: Good presentation skills, both written and verbal including ability to write clear and concise reports
• Essential: Working knowledge of relevant information technology
• Essential: Good organisational skills
• Essential: Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
• Essential: Knowledge of relevant assessment tools
• Essential: Skills in planning, assessing and implementing relevant intervention
• Essential: Awareness and sensitivity to the needs of clients from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds
• Desirable: Understanding of local issues relevant to delivery of a Speech and Language Therapy service

Other

• Essential: Willing and able to work flexibly across sites

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer contact details
Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service, Jo Lester, jo.lester3@nhs.net, 07826548204

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