Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 October 2025 |
| Location: | London, W9 3XZ |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7469793/824-INNER-7469793 |
Summary
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist 0.8 WTE band 7Westminster,and Kensington and ChelseaSchools Team
Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people?Come and join the CLCH SLT education team!
We have an exciting opportunity for a band7SLT to join ourSLTeducation service. The role will include working in the mainstream education service in theinner Londonboroughs of Westminster, and RBKC.As a band 7, you will have a key role in service development and supporting others, and will join a friendly,experiencedand knowledgeable team.
In the CLCH SLT service we are passionate about reducing inequalities and have an active diversity and inclusion ethos.Take a lookat our recruitment video to find out more about working in our teams:CLCH S&L Recruitment - YouTube
Joinusif you want to:
• Have opportunities to take the lead on service development, and sharing of new learning and best practice
• Work in an innovative,knowledgeable, and supportiveteam
• Work jointly with parents, schoolteamsand other professionals to develop a shared understanding of each child/young person’sspeech,languageand communication needs and how these can be supported
• Help schools embed good universal and targeted practice within their settings
• Have opportunities to further develop clinical supervision and line management skills
• Providing highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to CYP with speech language and communication needs. This will include supporting parents, school staff and other professionals in all issues related to client management. Liaison with the MDT is an integral part of the role.
• Understanding and meeting professional and legal SEND responsibilities outlined in the Children and Families Act 2014 including contributing to statutory assessments of special educational needs and delivery of SLT provision as specified in CYP’s Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
• Having accountability for own professional actions and recognising own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
• Providing highly specialist clinical supervision, line management and peer review to other SLTs and students and support in the training and development of junior therapists in the team.
• Contributing to developments within individual teams and the broader service including in the development of policies and procedures relating to clinical care, evidence-based practice, care pathways and outcome development.
• Delivering training to staff e.g. specific in-service training across settings to a variety of audiences e.g. parents and staff in schools settings.
• Liaising with other colleagues across a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here:https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
This advert closes on Thursday 25 Sep 2025