Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 plus HCAS per annum (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 April 2026 |
| Location: | Barking, IG11 7LZ |
| Company: | North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7850210/395-BD009-26-A |
Summary
The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway.
The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands.
You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.
· Co-Lead on the provision of Complex Needs and Dysphagia services for community paediatrics in Barking and Dagenham. The role is a Dysphagia and Complex needs split depending on service demand and need.
· Work closely with clients, carers, families and professionals to raise awareness, knowledge and skills related to the range of strategies that improve feeding outcomes across settings
· Be able to further develop your interests and skills in an area/ areas of interest and expertise
· Contribute to both speech and language therapy and multi-disciplinary team working to ensure co-ordinated service provision
· Lead a small team of therapists and assistants working in your Pathway.
· To provide supervision of colleagues and peer support
· Deliver comprehensive formal and informal assessment and make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment findings
· Develop evidence based intervention programmes, adapt and facilitate therapy according to client centred needs
· Provide highly specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents/carers, education staff, multidisciplinary team members and other colleagues.
· Be involved in the Service Development of the SALT team
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
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 focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes Hospital, Ilford IG3 8XJ.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
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 - per annum, pro rata for part time).
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI
during the recruitment process.
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. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
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 to this when completing your application.
Please get in touch if you think you could bring something to the role and are interested in joining our team (even if you don't meet all of the role requirements!)
We will consider a suitable developing band 6 to band 7 candidate for this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026