Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We have a new opportunity for a highly specialist role in the clinical specialism of Early Years and Community in our growing Children’s Community Speech and Language Therapy team. We are a department that promotes Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and practice, value difference and welcome everyone.

We are a team of innovative, enthusiastic clinicians, delivering a range of Speech and Language Therapy services in partnership with parents, Health, Education, Social Services, Local Authority, Youth Justice Services and the voluntary sector working across Lambeth & Southwark.

The Speech and Language Therapy department provides focused and clinically driven services across the community (Lambeth & Southwark). Our aim is to ensure clear delivery and development of services for the specific populations we serve, enabling smoother transitions, enhanced skill development across the team and greater job satisfaction.

Main duties of the job

In theEarly Years and Community Team you will:

  • manage a caseload of children in the Early Years & Community service
  • focus on input to community clinics, children’s centres, and nurseries
  • have responsibility to co-lead a Cluster (small team of SLTs and SLTAs), co-ordinating the delivery of universal, targeted and specialist work and Early Years’ service development.

As a senior therapist, you will be expected to take on service development work supported by departmental Clinical Leads.

We provide separate line management and clinical supervision to ensure strong clinical performance and development opportunities. You would offer line management and clinical supervision to junior colleagues (with support from Leadership) and offer second opinions to colleagues as needed.

Person Specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
  • Health and Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice

Desirable

  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy
  • Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist with a paediatric caseload.
  • Understanding of the impact of local social, cultural, and linguistic factors on service delivery.
  • Problem solving skills in complex situations including local resolution of complaints where possible

Desirable

  • Experience in contributing to policy planning and service development

Skills

Essential

  • Highly Specialist knowledge of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to client groups and settings and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits underpinned by evidence based practice.

Desirable

  • Experience of using wide range of IT software and applications

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: 2 August 2026

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