CAMHS CLA (City) Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Use your clinical expertise to make a lasting difference to the lives of children and young people.

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist sought to join our CAMHS Looked After Children’s Team, to support children whose early experiences may have included trauma, neglect and loss.

Working within a specialist, trauma-informed multidisciplinary team, you will help identify and address speech, language and communication needs, enabling young people to express themselves, build relationships, and engage fully.

Key responsibilities include:

Specialist speech, language and communication assessments.Delivering evidence-based, individualised interventions.Consultation, advice and trainingContributing to service development and quality improvement.

We offer excellent support, monthly clinical supervision with the Clinical Lead SLT, strong peer networks, multidisciplinary working, and outstanding CPD opportunities.

Based at St Ann’s Valley Centre, Nottingham, this role offers the chance to help young people find their voice, strengthen relationships, improve emotional wellbeing, and achieve better outcomes.

Every child deserves to be heard. Join us and help them thrive.

We encourage informal enquiries.

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Main duties of the job

What We’re Looking For

A qualified Speech and Language Therapist with HCPC registrationSignificant experience working with children and young people with SLCN, ideally in youth justice, social care, or CAMHSExcellent clinical reasoning, advocacy, and interpersonal skillsA commitment to anti-racism, trauma-informed practice, and inclusive communicationConfidence working autonomously and collaboratively in fast-paced environments

You will be contributing to a multi-disciplinary service supporting children and young people accessing CAMHS. This will include:

Carrying out specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessments and bespoke packages of intervention, including specialist reports, recommendations and bespoke resources.

Developing Training / advice in collaboration with the MDT to support the CYP, and CAMHS.

SLTs in CAMHS are a core part of the multi-disciplinary team, supporting the understanding of the patients communication needs, contributing towards neurodiversity diagnostic assessment and writing neuro-affirming reports using a neuro-affirmative approach to support individuals and people in their lives to understand their neurodevelopmental and communication differences.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised AHP Degree/diploma
  • Professional body Registered
  • HCPC Registered

Training

Essential

  • Portfolio of relevant post qualification
  • CPD highly including specialist knowledge of professional interventions and evaluations.
  • Clinical educator

Desirable

  • Post-graduate training specific to client group
  • Relevant Masters modules or completed programme
  • Leadership training

Experience

Essential

  • Working experience of assessing and managing a complex caseload with young people and/or adults with profession specific needs in specialist area
  • Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Experience of designing and delivering different learning and development opportunities for staff teams.
  • Experience in developing evaluation / audit tools and resources as part of profession/multi-professional team
  • Experience of leading the clinical and professional development of others including students

Desirable

  • Experience of leading / managing project work.
  • Experience of research, audit, service evaluation and/or quality improvement projects – setting up, evaluating, reporting and application
  • Identifies clinical risks and carries out MDT/ Trust Risk assessments and formulation for individuals, groups or services highlighting needs
  • Experience of collaboration across teams, services, and other stakeholders outside of the Trust

Knowledge

Essential

  • Highly specialist applied clinical knowledge
  • Knowledge of National Policy and guidance and impact on local practice.
  • Applied leadership knowledge.
  • Knowledge of Risk Assessment and ability to ensure effective risk management strategies within specialism.

Desirable

  • Highly specialist knowledge of how mental and physical health contribute to risk assessment and support management.
  • Contributed to regional and national clinical projects and/or strategic work

Skills

Essential

  • Empathetic and psychologically minded
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills for a variety of audiences, and in situations
  • Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
  • Excellent clinical reasoning skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Extensive experience of supporting other staff and students
  • Motivated and a motivator
  • Team builder and team member
  • Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision
  • Reflective practitioner
  • Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this
  • IT skills – to support clinical and service needs and developments

Desirable

  • Experience of managing a project or service initiative.

Contractual requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel between 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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 13 September 2026

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