Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Autism - Community post

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Autism - Community post NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area: Speech and Language Therapy

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

Job ref: 395-WF214-24-D

Site: Wood Street Health Centre

Town: Walthamstow

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro-rata (plus HCAS)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/04/:59

Joining means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.

Job overview

Are you a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist seeking a new role? At NELFT, we have the perfect opportunity for you. 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 specialist Speech and language therapist to work with autistic children and young people within resource provisions with a day working in the diagnostic clinic. You will also be supporting EHCP reviews for CYP with a range of diagnoses.

Main duties of the job

As a Speech and Language Therapist in our service, you will deliver care to children, young people and their families in the community, schools, and within the clinic setting at Wood Street Health Centre. You will be working within our well-established, supportive, and dynamic diagnostic and schools team. In your allocated schools, you will provide assessments including EHCP's as well as delivering intervention and training to upskill school staff.

We offer excellent support, regular supervision, and many CPD opportunities, for example in the diagnostic clinic. We are also focused on upskilling the team and our partners in neurodivergence, and the post holder will be central to this. This post will also develop your supervision skills.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT: NELFT places 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.

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 partway 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 basic salary, with a minimum of £4,551 and maximum of £5,735, pro-rata for part-time staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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.

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.

Person specification

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• HCPC Licence to Practice
• Experience of working in a multi-agency and/or multi-disciplinary team
• Clinical knowledge of child development and its application to speech and language therapy
• Knowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques, and therapeutic interventions

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.

As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part-time hours or another flexible pattern.

Equal opportunities employer: We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on or email .

Correspondence with us: You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.