Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	15 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum, Plus HCAS (Pro Rata)
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	14 August 2025
Location:	London, E17 3LA
Company:	North East London NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7320935/395-WF046-25

Summary

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist seeking a new role?

At NELFT, we have the perfect opportunity for you. And we flex to suit you, let us know if we can accommodate a flexible working arrangement to suit your personal circumstances.

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and dynamic Universal and Targeted pre-school community team. You will work across day nurseries and in Family Hubs providing training, coaching and support to Early Years Practitioners and families.

Waltham Forest is a great place to live and work - a thriving community with an abundance of amenities and good transport links. You can find out more about the area and the services that we provide to local residents on our careers website – www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk.

Speech and Language Therapists are core to the efficient service delivery that we provide to children, young people and their families.

As a Speech and Language Therapist in our service, you will deliver care to children, young people and their families in schools and within the clinic setting.

You will be working within our well-established, supportive, friendly and forward thinking Pre-school team. You will work closely with the Local Authority to continue to develop our offer to nurseries and families whilst ensuring key messages are being embedded in these settings. You will have opportunities to support with the SLT drop in sessions and deliver groups to families in the Hubs. There may also be opportunities to work in schools with their universal offer.

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.



Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.



Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.


This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Jul 2025