Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

  • This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to build skills and confidence working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs in a small and supportive team. As a Band 5 clinician, you will work as part of a supportive Children’s Therapy Team, delivering assessment and intervention under the guidance of senior colleagues. You will contribute to care planning, service delivery and collaborative working across community caseloads for early years and school aged children.
  • Your job will be to provide Speech and Language support and input to children with a diverse range of communication difficulties. You will work closely with the established team including settings and schools.

Main duties of the job

  • Provide high quality Paediatric Speech and language Therapy assessment and support for a wide range of communication needs.
  • Work as an autonomous practitioner to manage your own caseload within a defined area of the service with support and supervision from senior clinicians.
  • Contribute to service development activities as delegated, supporting quality improvement projects.

Deliver training and advice to settings, practitioners / carers.

  • Provide clear written and verbal reports, contributing to statutory processes with guidance from senior staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • oDegree/ MSC in Speech and Language Therapy
  • HCPC registered

Desirable

  • oPost graduate qualifications in Speech and Language
  • oMembership of Paediatric CEN
  • oRelevant accredited courses related to clinical areas in paediatric Speech and Language Therapy

Clinical experience

Essential

  • oRelevant paediatric experience at undergraduate / post graduate level
  • oUndergraduate / post graduate experience working with children and families
  • oExperience of working with other professionals e.g., schools, pre-school settings, HVs

Desirable

  • oExperience in being part of a multidisciplinary and multi-agency team
  • oPost graduate experience of working with children

Personal and leadership qualities

Essential

  • oExcellent verbal and written communication skills;
  • oGood team worker with ability to provide effective support to others
  • oAble to demonstrate good personal organisational skills

Other

Essential

  • oAccess to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area.

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: 1 November 2026

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